Life Skills Team Clinics · Life Skills Academy
Team skills,
put into action.
LST—Life Skills Team—Clinics is the arena where children put teamwork, leadership and decision-making into action through engaging small-team challenges.
Purposeful coaching gives the games their learning value. A little pressure asks children to contribute, communicate and adapt as the task unfolds. Huddles, challenge rotations and a debrief help connect their decisions with how the team works.
What your child will practise
- Decide in the momentChoose an approach while a team task unfolds.
- Communicate clearlyShare ideas, listen and coordinate with teammates.
- Reflect and adaptConsider what worked and what to try next.
Get together. Take on the challenge.
An opening huddle brings the group together before skill-challenge rotation blocks. Teams move through different activities, with fresh tasks requiring decisions and cooperation.
The format gives children repeated opportunities to contribute: offer an idea, listen to a teammate and decide what the group will try. The learning is active and connected to the task.
More than one chance to contribute. Moving between tasks gives the team fresh decisions to make. A child can offer an idea, ask a question or help organise the next attempt as the activities change.
Bring it together in a main challenge
A marquee challenge gives teams a standout task in which to put their learning into practice. A little pressure adds a reason to focus, coordinate and respond as a team.
This is where an idea about leadership becomes a choice during an activity: who will contribute what, how will the team respond and what needs to change?
Make decisions while it happens. The task keeps moving, so the group has to coordinate and respond in real time. It gives children practical experience of contributing under a manageable amount of pressure.
Look back at how the team worked
The leaderboard debrief creates a moment to look back after the challenges. It gives the experience a place for reflection alongside the energy of taking part.
Children have opportunities to think about their contribution and how the team approached a task. That connects the decisions made during a game with ideas they can try again.
Connect the result with the process. The debrief makes room to consider how the team communicated and made decisions. That reflection gives children ideas to carry into the next challenge.
These are examples from previous camps and the wider programme. Activities vary by camp and group.
The difference an excellent teacher makes
Coaches set up the tasks, guide participation and adapt the challenge. They recognise initiative, independent questions and contributions, helping children connect their choices with the team's progress.
A child who feels hesitant is encouraged to try and supported through the unfamiliar feeling. Participation remains their choice. The experience creates opportunities to recognise the satisfaction of contributing.
Teamwork and Leadership Skills explores shared projects and ideas about working with others. LST Clinics gives children another setting to apply them through quick decisions, changing situations and reflection.
A few questions parents ask
What does LST mean?
Life Skills Team. The clinics bring children together in small teams for engaging tasks that require communication and real-time decisions.
What happens during a clinic?
The format includes an opening huddle, skill-challenge rotation blocks, a marquee challenge and a leaderboard debrief.
What is the purpose of the pressure?
A little pressure gives the team a reason to focus and respond while a task unfolds. Coaches adapt the challenge and guide participation.
How the three Dublin camps fit together
A fresh curriculum, with room to practise
All three Dublin camps cover the same eight life skills. Each camp has its own curriculum, with freshly designed activities, challenges and approaches. Some fundamentals naturally reappear, giving children opportunities to practise through new experiences.
Find your child's next experience
Choose a complete Excellence Camp in Dublin or Kilkenny. Dublin families can join us for one, two or all three camps.