Building Student Relationships Matters
The stronger the relationships among your students or colleagues, the more prepared they will be to engage productively with one another.
And we all know that engaging people – no matter what age – is the hardest (yet most critical) part of creating a productive learning or working environment.
The more time you take to create and build relationships at the start of a new year, the less antisocial behaviours you will need to manage throughout the rest of the year.
Research shows that staff and students not only become more productive, but incidents of anti-social behaviours drop significantly.
There are countless activity ideas you can integrate into your new year that will quickly and easily invite your group to ‘break the ice,’ get to know one another, and strengthen their relationships.
Try These Back-to-School Activity Ideas
Here’s a sample 60-minute program featuring a bunch of hand-picked, fantastic group activities. Try the whole program or pick and choose what you like or have time for.
The activity links will direct you to our extensive database of group games & activities, where you will learn all of the step-by-step instructions you need to lead them with confidence and ease. Best of all, no equipment is necessary, so success is just a mouse click away.
Back to School Activity Template
What you need: 10+ people, 60 minutes, no equipment
- Categories – simple random-grouping excericse that fosters interaction
- Thumb Wrestling in Stereo – innovative variation of the class thumb-war
- Jump In Jump Out – one of the most hilarious group games out there
- Fill Me In – useful and active name-reminder game
- Paired Shares – opportunity to share in pairs for small groups
- Tea Cup Stretch – unique one person stretch
- Everybody’s It – classic all-time favourite run-around game
- Leaning Tower of Feetza – quick and easy group initiative
- Pairs Compass Walk – an exciting challenge for two people
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