Raising the aspirations of young people into higher education and developing self confidence is one of the main learning outcomes of this event.
I hope the children can go back to schools and have self belief
I am teaching these guys the caterpillar tracks which is a task that involves them working co-operatively to get from one side of the mats to the other.
I'm trying to get them to take responsibility and show leadership skills.
It just gives an insight into what university is and the importance of leadership. We talk about university and the boys moving on
but this gives a hands on experience of what's on offer locally.
Basically what you are doing, you are all going to be holding two hands on the rope and be tying a reef knot.
a reef knot is like when you are tying your shoelaces - you tie it one way, then the other way
You'll be tying a knot around this bin, but you're not allowed to let go.
The university offered great events, the team building , the problem solving
they've all been great, they've helped me to learn a lot which I'll hopefully be able to bring to the classroom when I go back to William Parker.
It's inspired me to come to the University of Brighton.
The rockinghorse where they have to walk over a bench the other way up with their partner.
Keep communicating, once they get to the middle, it will tip over.
Once they start to build up a little more trust we can introduce a blindfold.
They really have to work on their communication skills and getting their partner from one side to the other.
It's a great opportunity for our boys to come in here and practice some of the skills they are going to need next year.
We've selected boys that we thing are potential prefects for next year
so in terms of their social skills in working with different people and to lead groups and be led, it's been fantastic.
Social and community engagement is at the heart of the university's Widening Participation policy
The activity we are doing is skin the snake it's working towards teamwork and communication and getting your team in a race.
It's all communication based, you've got to try and work out what's best for your team.
It's a really good day for the students to define and develop their leadership skills
One of these is a classroom based session where we are getting the students to identify leadership skills
I'm really inspired to come to the University of Brighton
The facilities are remarkable , the good resources teachers and lecturers.
They get to work with people from other schools , the boys from Parker, they get to come to see these wonderful facilities here.
Behind me is the jump rope. The aim is for the pupils to go through the rope without getting hit by it.
They're first going to work individually, then in pairs, then in groups. The idea here is they improve their communication and teamwork.
Another great chance for us as trainee P.E. teachers to get exposure in teaching young people.
In various activities across the day in various forms.
The University of Brighton has inspired me to come to university and maybe come here because
It's increased my confidence in sport
Particularly for our girls don't spend much time out of Hastings, so just to know there's a university on their doorstep
and that there's a different world out there. It inspires them straight away to go and do something else and to go and improve themselves.
It gives them a taste of what university is about, and having us as PGCE PE students here, we're still reasonably young and can connect with them and they see us as role models, hopefully.
Organisation, experience of team skills, trust exercises, how to become a student leader, and how to take that back into their schools
and more importantly to me, how to experience different from the curriculum competitive team games.
I think it's fantastic, I didn't get all of these opportunities at school. I like to lead by example and every opportunity I get to come over here
I make sure I do because I know how important it is for the boys.
Process rather than task outcomes are at the core of these types of activities
These types of activities are intended to raise the aspirations of young people into higher education.
The university here, and universities everywhere, if we want to encourage young people to do well and to aspire to do something within higher education, this is vital.