Year 7 Learning for Life

On Tuesday afternoon, the normal timetable for Y7 was disbanded and all boys took part in an afternoon of ‘Learning for Life’.  This special programme is designed to help the boys learn skills that they can adapt and use for the rest of their school career and beyond . . . indeed for life!  The boys approached the three workshops (De Bono’s Hats, Emotional Skills and Memory Skills) with their characteristic enthusiasm.  It was also a chance for them to make new friends from different Houses too.  Here are some of the positive comments Year 7 had about the afternoon:

‘Now I can see how people are feeling!’

‘Using De Bono’s Thinking Hats helped me realise that there is more than one way to find a solution to something’.

‘I  enjoyed the memory games and testing my memory’.

‘I learned about Time Management’.

‘Emotional Intelligence . . . I didn’t know about that and now I can work out how people are feeling!