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The Kite-building Workshop


This kite-building workshop from day 2 of the Personal Development Module will test the groups’ teamwork and creative thinking abilities.

The expected learning outcomes for youth workers:
Leadership: take responsibility for self and others, organise the team, inspire and motivate others

The expected learning outcomes for youth:
- working with others: listening to each other, co-operating with others on activities, making decisions together, tolerating and respecting others, supporting the team
- comfortable with failure as valid learning opportunity: ability to try new things beyond own experience, happy to make mistakes and for ideas to fail, learn from failure in order to reach success, tenacious in sticking with things until successful
- problem –solving: identify problem fully
- leadership: take responsibility for self and others, organise the team, inspire and motivate others, lead by example, achieve targets set

Resumé of exercise
This kite-building workshop from day 2 will test the groups’ teamwork and creative thinking abilities. Groups are given 15 minutes to build a kite from the materials handed to them. Once the groups have worked out their designs, they get to test them outside! A review of skills and achievements completes the workshop.


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