Recently, the Student Media Team held their first meeting to discuss what we will be getting up to this term.

Learning to lead the meeting was an important skill as you never know what you might encounter when working with a large group of people. It helped us learn to respond properly to other people giving their views and opinions and at times, talking over one another!

We both volunteered to chair the meeting and we had the job of planning ahead and ensuring the agenda was ready and then typing up the minutes afterwards. We knew it would be important to encourage and include everyone’s ideas.

Skills we developed:

• Planning the meeting
• Encouraging ideas
• Making decisions
• Using our initiative
• Effective communication
• Problem solving

These skills will be really useful because many people have to participate in meetings at some point in their lives and many of us will on a regular basis in our future careers.

Everyone included in the meeting was using their talking and listening skills to participate effectively and contribute their ideas and suggestions.  We worked cooperatively to create good questions we might want to ask the classes when we go round to gather information for the school newspaper ‘The Gourock Gossip’.

Mrs Falconer was really impressed at how the whole group conducted themselves and we think this picture shows just how focused we were on the task!

We are developing our skills for learning, life and work and hope this gives you a good picture of our learning in P7!

Thanks for reading!

Matthew and Molly,

Student Media Team.