On Wednesday May 3 the Sir Henry Parkes school leaders travelled to Armidale with Mrs Wait and Miss Starcevic to attend a GRIP students leadership conference. Approximately 30 schools with at least 300 other students attended.

GRIP stands for Generosity/Responsibility/Integrity and People.

While we were there we had to come up with some big ideas that we thought might be able to work at our school. One of the big ideas we had was to have a morning tea for teachers.

The reason we thought this would be a good idea for our teachers is because they do a lot for us and help us get a good education so that we could live a good life and go on family holidays. Our teachers also work very hard and don’t get many breaks because they are often on playground duty when we have our lunch.

We want to show them our appreciation. We thought we could do this be asking all the others students to cook something that would be suitable for morning tea on the weekend and bring it to school on Monday so that the school leaders could serve it out on the basketball court so that the whole school could be involved.

Another idea that we had was to make a board game out of recycled goods. We thought we could plan and make it in the library.

We also played some great games that helped us work as a team.

Fletcher, Bonnie and Will got up on stage. It was a little scary in front of so many people, but it was funny when Will did the chicken dance.