The Student Leadership programme provides students from KS3 to KS4 the chance to make a positive impact within their school community. Students have the opportunity to achieve Egglescliffe Student Leadership Accreditation, in a tiered approach to leadership responsibilities students can achieve bronze, silver or gold accreditation. This begins with students being taught the key aspects of leadership, covering 6 areas. These include:
- What makes a good leader? – Characteristics of good leadership and the different leadership styles.
- Different leadership styles – In general and what leadership style do you currently demonstrate?
- What makes an engaging leader – This will focus on; how to speak in public, engage an audience and present yourself confidently
- How to lead with impact – how to work in a team, communicate ideas to them and progress tasks forwards.
- The importance of body language – what can you pick up from others and what do they decide about you before you’ve said anything!
- How to write a business proposal
From that, students then identify the areas requiring change in their school community and plan how to achieve this. There are 3 strands that students develop; well being, environmental, school community, wider community, charity.
Students work on the different leadership skills and complete x10 tasks covering 5 different areas. This enables them to demonstrate that they have become a ‘well-rounded’ leader. Once this is evidenced and reflected upon their accreditation is considered and awarded as appropriate.
During this process, students receive training on an extend a range of skills, from budgeting to liaising with external agencies, enhancing their holistic skill set and input from multiple ‘leaders’ in their fields.
