Better as a Team
by Andrea Clark
Andrea Clark, a KidSpirit contributor from New Zealand, tells us what makes school a community in her part of the world.
As I walk in the school gate I look around me. Cliques with popular girls, sporty boys and rumour spreaders are all around me. So and so goes out with him, is one of the many rumors spread around my school. When I walk into my classroom everyone’s closely knit. We can laugh with each other, groan with each other, and help each other. Our class works as one, yet when we step out of the classroom we are again separated into cliques.
We are better as a team, supporting each other as we fail, cheering each other as we win. What our school really needs is something to bring us together as a whole school, not just as individual classes. We have had individual class camps which is what brought my class together as a team. If we could do something as a whole school, we would be stronger than ever before.
The saying “You are as strong as your weakest player” is of importance. We need to work together, bring each other to our best. The need to improve our skills is high, but to work together to improve them is higher. We can win over life, make friends that are as rare as a shooting star, be the best, most successful people we can be. If we work together, what is our limit? We can be the best school community we can be. All we need is a little guidance, and who knows what will happen? Who knows.
