Kevin Wang Staff Reporter

Gleneagle’s junior leadership group organized a sports day event at Scott Creek Middle School on Friday, May 27. Events included things such as tug of war, giant volleyball and other team-building exercises.

The sports day was planned, organized and directed by the junior leadership class, a course taken outside of the regular timetable. It’s been over three years since Gleneagle was able to hold an event at its number one feeder school. The event had lots of support from Scott Creek staff and received very positive feedback from students. Scott Creek classes would take turns visiting stations set up by junior leadership throughout the day.

“It was awesome to see the interaction of the high schoolers with the middle schoolers,” said Adam Hayes, socials and leadership teacher. The sports day left staff members thinking “what a great event it was.” According to Hayes

“It was lovely to see the reactions of people participating and even the teachers’ reactions and involvement,” said Poopy Elcock, grade 9. “It was exciting seeing the end result as we got to see what months of planning and hard work looked like,” added Elcock.

For junior leadership kids, this event has been a tremendous learning opportunity to step out of their comfort zones and grow confidence. Leadership students were able to create synergy and learn how to work together and communicate with each other to collaborate on their vision.

“I think something we took away from this was how important preparation is for large-scale events.” Said Aiden Lee, Grade 10 “We were pretty well organized… I think if we weren’t as prepared, we could have slipped up along the way.” Added lee.

Learning “that there is more behind school events and more planning than it seems” was one of the key takeaways for Elcock as well.

Only a small group of seven junior leaders were actually sent to Scott Creek to run the event, along with volunteers from ConX and the Coyote Crew. Communication was one of the biggest obstacles for the junior leaders. It was important to make sure communication between junior leaders and volunteers was clear.

“You can do anything team-related with communication,” Says Elcock, “that’s something we lacked during the beginning of our planning of the event.”

“It was challenging to make sure everyone was involved and was on the same page.” Added Lee.

All that hard work paid off. Scott Creek’s sports day was a huge success thanks to junior leadership’s hard work and perseverance.