Today, two groups joined together to do a class called thinking and learning. You find out which side of your brain is more dominant, and how you think. But, as many of the teachers hastened to tell us, the results aren’t set in stone (which made quite a few people relieved!)

We used something called the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument to find out whether we were more Rational, Experimental, Safekeeping or Feeling. Basically, whether you are logical and like numbers, take risks and like surprises, are organised and always punctual, or are sensitive to others and emotional.

The results were, to say the least, interesting. Lots of people who thought they were left-brainers were in fact right, and vica versa. Personally, I thought I was very creative, but my results showed I’m a lot more rational than I myself credit for.

All in all, it was a fun class (or at least compared to the stuff I’d be doing at home!)

Effie

Today at the Alpine School Campus we participated in a variety of team building/work activities ranging from structure making to fast, strategy requiring games.

The activities began with all of the students being split up into their school groups and meeting up with their liaison Teachers, where they introduced themselves to their liaison teacher and told them something about themselves. As the day progressed we participated in a lot more activities, the first of which for me was a trust game where we were put into our expo groups and we had to re-create a structure made from lollies and toothpicks, the catch was that we were told that some of our groups were players who would do anything to help us complete the structure and the rest were spies who would work against us.

By Jake and Tess