Lock In

This year we got to have our second annual lock in! The goal of this is to bring student council together and focus on our impact on Red Mountain. We were so excited to have 5th hour join us for the entire day on Friday and then having Gilbert Christian High School meet us in Payson for more team bonding.

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We started out the day with fun activities to help us get to know each other better.

We were so excited to have our annual lunch with the best buddies/mountain movers! We welcomed them with posters and signs all over the room.

We had such a blast with these amazing students! We played games, danced to music, and had delicious pizza for lunch. It's always fun getting to know them better and creating special memories with them.

After lunch we went downstairs for team building activities. We played one of our favorite games, Electricity, and discussed the importance of working together as a team and putting forth the effort to meet our goals.

With 4th and 5th hours combined, we set a mindset for the year and created important goals that we can't wait to work towards to meet! Our main goal we want to focus on is to make everybody feel important!

As the school day portion of the lock-in came to and end, we said goodbye to 5th hour with the cinnamon roll hug!

5th hour chairman and the 4th hour class returned to the school to finish the lock in with dinner and a fun night of more activities!

After dinner we got into our hall groups to finish hoco hall prep. While we were in these groups we started a new activity. One person from each group volunteered to have a disability for the rest of the night to experience how it may feel. This taught us the importance of working together and also not taking things for granted.

We stayed in our groups as we watched mindset videos and brainstormed ideas from the videos that we can take from them and learn from.

We were so lucky and happy to be surprised with our some of our student council alumni throughout the night!

After this discussion, we got into new groups and watched more videos on more serious subjects. Then we walked over to the gym to present what we learned.

This discussion calmed the mood as we led into our next activities. The squat game and board breaking! Mrs. Pomonis taught us how to break out of our personal boundaries and break through wooden boards with our bare hands. With music in the background and screaming YES! YES! YES! we had such a fun time cheering each other on.

We finished the night by going out to the football field to discuss our favorite parts of the day and what we learned. Then we went to bed and got a whole 2 hours of sleep!

The next morning, we drove up to Tonto Rim and met with Gilbert Christian High School for more games and activities. We ate lunch together and ended our day with a competitive capture the flag game. We dominated and got the flag as we led our team to victory! This weekend was very successful and we created many memories as we bonded with each other!