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CHAPTER 3 - The Team

The next day Ben arrived late for his lesson. When he came into the room his students stood up. Ben was surprised- He looked round the room.

‘What are you doing?’ he asked.

The students looked at him but nobody spoke.

Ben walked to the back of the room. ‘Robert, can you tell me what’s happening here?’

Robert jumped up next to his desk. ‘Mr Ross, discipline.’

‘Yes, discipline,’ said Mr Ross. ‘But there’s something more.’

He went back to the front and wrote, ‘WE ARE ALL IN THE SAME TEAM’ next to ‘WINNERS NEED DISCIPLINE’.

Mr Ross turned back to the class. ‘Everybody must believe in those words,’ he said. ‘Now I want us to say them together.’

Round the room students jumped up and said, ‘We’re all in the same team. Winners need discipline.’

Laurie was the last person to stand up. Now all the students stood next to their desks.

Mr Ross showed the students a big picture of a wave. ‘This is a wave. A wave is something that’s always moving. We’ll call our team the Wave’.

Mr Ross looked round the class. He saw that his students wanted to hear more about the Wave ‘This will be our salute,’ he said. Ben put his right hand up and moved it up and down.

‘Look, my hand is a wave in the sea,’ he said. Then he put his hand on his left arm. ‘Class, give our salute,’ he said.

The students gave the salute. Many did it wrong. ‘Do it again,’

said Mr Ross. He showed them the salute again. They all did it again and again.

‘Good,’ said Mr. Ross. ‘Now everybody can do the Wave salute. This is our salute and our salute only. When you see a Wave

member, you must salute. Robert, give our salute and say our words.’

Robert jumped up and gave the Wave salute. ‘Mr Ross, we’re all in the same team. Winners need discipline.’ ‘Now everybody together,’ said Mr Ross.

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After school that afternoon David spoke to the other members of the football team. ‘We must be more disciplined.’ he said.

‘What are you talking about?’ one player asked.

‘We lose games because we don’t play together,’ said David.

‘We’re not a team.’

‘I don’t want to lose any more games,’ said another player.

‘Yes, everybody in the school laughs at us,’ said another.

‘We can win,’ said David. ‘We’re playing Clarkstown on Saturday. And we can win.’

‘But what must we do?’

Eric looked at David. The Wave was something from their history lesson.

‘Tell them,’ said Eric. ‘Tell them about the Wave.’ ‘All I know is that you start with some words,’ said David.

‘And this is the salute