Last Thursday, in the beautiful sunshine, the majority of our ASPIRE students were spent the afternoon at ‘Laser Conflict’, an outdoor laser tag battleground in Studley.
A new initiative this year, the ASPIRE programme currently has a key group of 27 pupils across Years 7 and 8, who are receiving additional support throughout this academic year. This support is to ensure they do their absolute best in homework, effort, attendance, and/or behaviour, to further improve their academic achievement and reach their full potential.
Someone (Mrs Ingram) thought it would be great for the teachers to get involved too, so with a baseball cap, laser headband and laser gun in hand, both Mrs Ingram & Mrs Wakefield ventured into the unknown. Everyone received their battle briefing, including explanations on how to use the laser gun and the rules of the battleground. They were also informed that the police and army have used similar equipment!
A tournament was created and battle commenced. Teams took part in 4 different scenarios over the 3 hours: King of the Hill, Capture the Flag, Prisoner of War and Last Man Standing for the finale.
All of the students were fantastic, it was a tough relentless workout whilst on the battle ground. They all demonstrated excellent team work, competitive good nature, resilience, communication, strategy, humour, bravery, the list is endless of the skills and the positive approach applied by all the ASPIRE students.
