Football Camp

For a whole week, I participated in a football camp which helped me develop my skills as a football player and a team player. Throughout the week, we took different tests to see at what level we were football-wise and we also played some games in order to be able to apply our skills in an actual game. This week was not only an opportunity to improve my skills, but to also have some fun playing the sport which I do best at.

Throughout the whole week I tried my best and tried to show our coach what I was able to do in order to both impress him and hopefully get feedback that would help me improve my skills even more. I was able to see, through the tests that we took, that my passing needs to improve since that was the test I got the least points in and to improve this, I should practice passing the ball against the wall so that I get a higher degree of precision in my passing. However, I was able to see that my agility and dribbling was a very strong point in my football since I got the best score for that part of the test among the 15 to 18 year olds.

During the games that we played, I tried to show that dribbling skill I had by trying to get passes opponents with my quick feet and knowledge of particular dribbles which paid off really well since I was able to impress both my team mates and the coach with my skills.

We had a game during the week that I stayed at this camp and I think that I was limited to the extent that my team mates didn't play well as a team even though I was constantly putting myself into good position and asking for the ball and talking to my team mates which has helped me become a better communicator. As well as this, I was put into three different postions during this game which were the centre midfielder, left midfielder and striker which I tried to show myself capable of playing, however, I have to once again stress the fact that my team mates didn't play very well as a team so I didn't get the ball pretty often but even so I always tried to put myself into good positions to receive the ball and I kept encounraging my team mates verbally which helped me become more caring in the sense that I have become more of a supportive team mate.

If I am to come back next year, I will, throughout the academic year, improve my passing and my control of the ball since those are the areas I noticed that I need to improve on as well as the accuracy of my shooting when the ball is moving since those are the areas that I was most disappointed about, especially the shooting, so throughout the academic year I will be trying to shoot more precisely instead of always going for powerful shots since that is the way to improve for next year.

Sports Day

Having known that we would be low on numbers today and having it confirmed by the numbers present, I decided to take the initiative of grouping year 7 and 8 together in order for there to be enough people to participate in the activities. I then asked them which sports they wanted to do so that I could chose which timetable to follow between the year 7 and 8 one which demonstrated me as caring in the sense that I asked what people wanted and gave them what they desired instead of taking an autocratic decision.

Apart from that the day went pretty well in the sense that there were no issues that weren't unresolved as soon as they appeared like the fact that Year 10s wanted to do a sport that they didn't have on the table. The day went smoothly and it was fun for everyone which was my main concern; to provide a service to the people of our school and to help them enjoy themselves.

I made sure to come early to school so that I could set up everything before people went to their activities and so that I could fix any problems that would appear before they would be discovered by the people supposed to do the activities.

I have become a lot more confident and communicative since, when our year group was supposed to do dodge ball and the teachers weren't here, I divided everyone that didn't know which house they were in in the houses that they should be in and I was ready to actually organise the activity myself but the appointed hosts appeared before I got to start the first game off to wait for their arrival.

Any queries people had (teachers) came to me and I was able to answer their questions the best I could which shows how organised I was since I had planned everything out and what is even more amazing is that I was able to organise a school event of this magnitude by myself which shows that, in contrast from the beginning of the year, I have become a lot more responsible and less shy.

If I were to do this kind of event with this level of responsibility, I would try to create a sport which is more original than the ones that I have chosen to give students something they have never done before and to make things more interesting and fun for them. This would be a new challenge for me and would help me be more creative.

Sports Day Plan

Tomorrow there will be a sports day that I put myself forward to organise and I did this with almost no help which is a negative side of the organisation but also the positive side since this has made me a lot more responsible and an individual thinker. Throughout several months I have worked very hard to think of every single possible thing that may go wrong so that I can fix it such as the number of people that may attend. Considering it is the last week of the school year, some people may not be here and I accounted for this by giving sheets to form teachers who would then write down the names of the students that weren't going to be there and the students that I may not have included on this sheet which had the houses each student was in which I tried to divide equally by putting the same amount of both genders in each house.

Tomorrow, there will be a set timetable which shall be followed which is different for each year group and to make sure that they know what they are doing at what time and where, I have printed out sheets to, not only the hosts of the events, but also to teachers that I have given responsibility to to look after year groups so that they get on time to the activities that it is planned they do. I have given each host of a sport sheets where they are told the rules of the sport, scoring system and how the games should be played so that all they have to do is read those instructions and follow them to the letter. After lunch time, there will be a relay that all the school will be involved in and this will take place near the volleyball court. The relay will be for each year but the Year 12s will race the teachers in the last race to give an entertainment factor to these races. 

I am going to set up all that needs setting up tomorrow morning so that everything is in place before the day actually starts and that everything runs with minimum issues. 

Organising this day has made me more communicative since I had to talk to students and teachers for this day to run as smoothly as possible. I was able to organise, by myself, an event of such magnitude and bear the responsibility on my shoulders. I have become a lot more of a risk taker since taking this task head on and a minimum of help was a great challenge for me yet I was able to pull through by working hard non stop.

Hopefully, this day will run according to plan and to make sure of this, not only will I be participating to have some fun, but I will also be going around to check that everything is going according to plan and to help any teacher that is unclear about what they are supposed to do.