BAYVIEW Newsletter a
ISSUE 17 Monday 16 June 2014
www.bayview.vic.edu.au Principals Message Good Team Members Are Important. At work, at school, on a committee, or in a club or volunteer organisation, you will likely find yourself as a member of a team at some point in time. When approached with the right attitude, teamwork can be a huge benefit to students, staff and community, improving effective learning, work output, generating creative ideas and building strong relationships. But when handled badly, teamwork can result in frustration, resentment, and wasted time and energy.
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Principal's Message
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Glenelg Cross Country Results
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Grade 6 students visit Bayview
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Students provide a gift of winter giving
IN OTHER NEWS This week’s header photo
Tree Planting for World Environment Day
Year 7 students headed down to Nuns Beach to participate in World Environment Day. Along with Primary School students and business leaders our Year 7s planted approx. 1000 trees with tree guards.
Wanting Host Families for Matsudo Students!
If you could support the Bayview-Matsudo exchange program by hosting one of the Japanese students for 10 days, please contact school a.s.a.p. Thank you for your ` support in advance!
Team membership brings with it responsibilities to the team as a whole, and each individual member of the team. The team can only be as strong, as effective, as efficient as the members who carry out all the tasks and duties required as agreed, and work together to solve problems. Team members who perform work outside the scope that the team agreed to may be beneficial to their team, but they may also cause serious problems by doing so. If team members are not honest with others and themselves, then the project is doomed. Teams must be thoroughly trustworthy and able to trust others as well. The oft quoted saying from Star Trek, that "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one” really does apply to effective teams. The team effort must come before any team member's own personal, social or professional agenda in the organisation or group project. Team members need to contribute openly, with integrity and take care about others' feelings when communicating. There should be no competition that will destroy the project and no attention-getting behaviours. A team member should freely contribute time, energy, talent, knowledge and enthusiasm. Good team members are ready to take personal responsibility for some element of the team's current project. These people do not hide within a crowd in order to avoid work. They accept assignments or step forward and ask for them. They will encourage others as well. Effective teams allow the individual skills and gifts of each of the members to shine and be understood and used. They follow through and deliver on their commitments. They do not call in sick the day before an assignment for the team project is due. Good team members must commit to the success of the team. If they agree to carry out tasks, then they must do so. If anyone does not, the other members will lose confidence in the integrity and honesty of the individual who has failed to complete the tasks as and when agreed. If there is a problem, then the person who is having difficulty in meeting their duties must admit it and ask for help before it is too late. These are lessons that we endeavour to teach our young people in team based activities at school, within the family team, within sporting teams, and for those with part-time jobs within their work teams. "Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Vince Lombardi
Dr Michelle Kearney