Student Leadership
Opportunities to Develop Leadership Skills
At Leeds East Academy we support our students to become leaders as it contributes to their positive development as people. It not only prepares them for the world of work but also supports students to become self-regulated in school.
Student Leadership
Following a successful two-year period of our current student leadership programme, we are very excited to broaden our student leadership team through our LEAdership programme. During the coming weeks, students will have an opportunity to apply for a range of roles across the academy departments. In line with the OfSted framework, we will be introducing four new key areas of focus for our student leaders: Positive Behaviour, Personal Development, Student Experience and Quality of Education. This opens up a fantastic opportunity for up to 40 students to join the student leadership team.
- The Student LEAdership Programme runs over five weeks and is designed to develop key leadership skills and qualities.- Sessions are led by members of the Senior Leadership Team and will cover vital aspects of what it means to be an effective and responsible leader.
- These sessions will take place during school hours.
- There will be 40 Student LEAders, with 4 KS4 students selected from interview to be Senior Student LEAders.
Guardian Leaders
Overview
In order to drive positive choices, each Guardian Group elects one Guardian Leader to support the Guardian and whole cohort throughout the year. Guardian Leaders support Student Leaders with organisational requests, student voice activities and bridging the gap between the student body and staff. They also support the other role holders within the group: Stamps Monitor, Classroom Monitor, Equipment Monitor and Uniform Monitor. These roles are all in place to add cohesion, teamwork and a foundation of support within each classroom every morning, as well as to give more students leadership opportunities at Leeds East Academy.
BulliesOut
A number of students across all year groups attended training to become Peer Mentors though the BulliesOut training sessions. They now work as Anti Bullying Ambassadors and Peer Mentor through providing one to one sessions with individual students as well as through a series of session they have created and delivered to students on key themes such as self-confidence, resilience and communication.
"Empower"
We want a future in which female role models are more prominent in society. This is not possible without programmes like 'empower'. The programme the trust has developed is a female empowerment programme that offers a leadership qualification for a selected group of young women. As well preparing them to become the next generation of leaders. Empower is about educating these young women on the issues and the barriers and giving them the tools to overcome. In addition to building confidence, self-belief and equality across the academies. The message of 'empower' is reflected in the wider school through inspirational women in the curriculum and celebrating events such as 'international women's day'. It promotes a culture where girls are comfortable to be who they are and to become whoever they want to be'.
The group have recently worked with Freedom 4 Girls where they looked at period issues such as anxiety and product poverty. The group have collectively developed a period policy in school as well trial sustainable products to help reduce their personal carbon footprint. They will soon be working with a local artist and the Freedom 4 Girls group on an exhibition at the Thackray Museum
Leadership Development Programme
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Half Term Updates
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