In Term Three, Year 11 students began a ‘Learn to Lead’ curriculum during their wellbeing lessons, in order to learn both individual and collective leadership skills to prepare them for their roles as Year 12 student leaders. By focusing on self-awareness, self-management and relational and teamwork skills, students have produced extraordinary work in their House groups.
Students connections have strengthened as they collaborated on unpacking their shared core values and actions in the form of a House Moral Compass and House Leadership Vision.
“We started our leadership journey off with an individual task, to create a moral compass. This task gave us a chance to look inside ourselves and got us thinking about what defines us as individuals, what core values drive us to act like this and why are we driven by these things. Together as a house group, we designed a combined moral compass consisting of shared core values. This was a wonderful opportunity, to reconnect as a year group within a house. The moral compasses are a demonstration of our unity as a house and as a grade. By understanding everyone on a deeper level, we can work towards being a stronger, more cohesive team. This year has been all about working together and taking that step up to expand the legacy of our predecessors, while we write our own. The transition between year 11 and 12 is not a simple task as all focus will be on us. How we lead, how we set good examples for younger grades and how we broaden our horizons on our final year of school. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.”
I am incredibly proud of all Year 11 students and congratulate them on the culture of support, care and mutual respect they are cultivating within their cohort, whilst committing to their leadership development so far.
