Student Leadership is embedded in all aspects of student life at North Leamington School, allowing all young people to have their voices heard, but also the opportunity to develop key life skills in a practical environment. Students have leadership opportunities in all year groups and across all areas of the curriculum. There is a specific focus on student leadership within colleges to support the delivery of the tutor curriculum, but also to allow mentoring across year groups and support of whole school activities and events.

College Student Leadership Structure

The overall student leadership structure is driven through the College system with specific roles for students in each year group as follows:

Year 13

In Year 13, we give our students the chance to lead their own conversation to improve the school from the top down.

We have two Senior Student Leaders,  who take on a range of responsibilities throughout the year including:

• - Representing the school at events such as Open Evenings, Celebration Evenings, etc.
• - Being the voice of the whole student body, leading the Student Council meetings and presenting the ideas discussed to Mr Lowdell.
• - Liaising with staff, governors, and visitors to school.

 Senior Student Leaders for 2023/24 are Grace Huitson-Smith & Shingai Choto -

                   

Working alongside our Senior Student Leaders are the students in our six Assistant Senior Student Leadership roles. All six of these cover an important area of life, and they work with students and staff alike to hone their skills and improve life for our students. These roles include:

• Equality & Diversity
• Charity & Communication
• Wellbeing & Mentoring
• Sports
• Marketing
• Careers & Life Skills

Year 12

In Year 12, ten of our students, two from each College take the role of College Student Leaders. We give the chance for everyone to feel represented by their College leader, and these Leaders will ensure effective communication and support is available to all students within their College throughout the year.

Year 7-11

Specific student leadership roles are driven through year group teams, supported by College Leaders, Heads of Year.     

                 

Student Voice and Council

Our Student Leaders meet on a half-termly basis for what we call Student Council. This begins within Tutor Groups, where Student Voice representatives listen to feedback that students have and feeds the information to their Year Group Council representative during a session where all the key topics are shared and discussed. The Year Group Council representatives then collate that information and share it at a Student Cabinet meeting which is led by our Senior Student Leaders. Once key areas for school improvement have been identified, our Senior Student Leaders meet with the Head Teacher to identify key areas of change and actions to take moving forward to implement these.

Student Leadership in Lessons

In addition to College specific activities, student leadership plays a key role in all aspects of our academic curriculum in the classroom and through wider school extra-curricular experiences. Whether this be through students taking on the role of Sports Captains when competing against other schools in after-school fixtures, or acting as an equipment monitor in their English class for example. All staff actively look for opportunities to facilitate student leadership within their classes and recognise leadership as a key life skill that needs to be nurtured for all.

Benefits of Student Leadership

• It creates pride in the school because students feel they have a genuine stake in it and the decisions that directly affect them
• It provides adults with invaluable insights into the dynamics of the school, allowing teachers to understand problems from students' perspectives
• When students are given leadership roles they become positive role models, especially for younger students
• Student leadership creates an atmosphere of students caring about the greater good of the school and the community as a whole