Leadership

Participation

&

Contribution

FUTURE LEADERS : OPPORTUNITIES

Introduction

Welcome to the Haygrove "Future Leaders" Programme.

This booklet describes a range of opportunities, most of

which are only available to students in Year 10. Some you

will already know about, you will have the chance to be, for

example, part of the Junior Leadership Team.

"Future Leaders" grow out of the STRIPES Programme you

may have been involved in this year. As part of STRIPES

you learn to be an:

Independent Enquirer

Experimental and Creative Thinker

Self Manager

Team Worker

Effective Participator

Reflective Learner.

In Year 10 you can go on to use these skills to become a

leader, to participate in teams and events and to contribute

to each other, the school and wider community.

There are lots of opportunities for you to take part in Future

Leaders but you will have to apply for any post you are

interested in. You may also need to be interviewed in order

to be accepted. This is just what happens when you look for

a job after leaving school. Again, just like in the world of

industry, you will need to undergo training in order to do

your job well.

Do study this booklet with your family and we hope that lots

of you are up for the challenge of being a "Future Leader".

Junior Leadership Team

This will be the highest

level of leadership

available to Haygrove

students.

In Year 10 you will work on one of the important issues

facing the school. This could be to do with student

welfare, planning, how to use ICT in school, what

makes good lessons or improving the school

environment.

Your work will have impact. You will meet with the

School Leadership Team, Governors and staff to share

and debate your findings. Your work will make the

school a better place.

Being a member of JLT will help you when applying to

become a Prefect. The Head Boy and Girl may well be

chosen from your ranks.

Becoming a Junior Leader won't be easy. You will have

to submit an application and you will be expected to do

a presentation. See the back page for how to apply. Do

not think that only the most academic will have a

chance. We will be selecting the most committed and

will look for a well balanced team.

You cannot become a Junior Team Leader member

without committing to a training programme and you

must be willing to work hard and dedicate your free

time.

Sport Leaders

There are lots of

opportunities to lead,

participate and

contribute within

Sports and PE. You

may well already be

involved and you can

talk to Mrs Bax or

your PE teacher if you

want to know more.

One opportunity for Year 10s is to apply to become a

Senior Sports Leader. Your role will be to take

responsibility for some of the extra curricular sports

provision for younger students. You might organise

and referee inter-tutor competitions or you could be

helping to coach more junior teams.

To be a Senior Sports Leader you obviously need to be

keen on sports but you may not need to be an

outstanding performer.

If you are interested in becoming a Senior Sports

Leader, then talk to your PE teacher but you will be

asked to complete an application, be willing to

undertake training in your role and recognise that most

of your work will be at lunch times and after school.

Language Leaders

To be a Language Leader you need to be a good

communicator and be really keen on learning languages

and want to know more about life and customs in other

countries. You will need to be quite good at languages

but you don't need to be an A/A* candidate.

You will be part of a team helping to support younger

students with their language learning. You will usually

need to be available for one lunch time each week for a

'drop-in' session where anyone needing help can come in

to seek your help.

The group will also promote languages and

internationalism across the school through supporting

the European Day of Languages, setting up displays,

running assemblies and coming up with ideas no one

has thought of yet.

The group will run itself with support from a member of

staff. To do this some of the Language Leaders will

need to be trained in organising groups, leadership and

how to run a meeting. Please see the back page for how

to apply to be a Language Leader.

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Fundraising Team

You know how often there are

fund raising events in school so

you know you will be busy!

Don't worry though; you won't

be running all of them.

You will take a leading role in

organising the big annual

events such as "Children in Need" and "Comic Relief"

but as experts you will advise and guide other groups

who want to put on an event. To make sure events are

well spaced you'll need to plan the annual calendar of

events. You will help to choose the charities we fund

raise for. Younger students working towards their

"Gold Stripes" will be seeking your help in order to

achieve that award.

You will be guided by a member of staff but you'll need

to organise yourselves as a group so some of you will

need to be trained in organising groups, leading people

and running meetings. Please see the back page for

how to apply for the Fundraising Team.

Numeracy & Literacy Mentors

Numeracy and Literacy Mentors are a group of year 10

students volunteer to give up one registration a week in

order to help Year Seven and Eight students to consolidate

their times tables or work on their reading and writing

skills.

This should be a team of committed, approachable people

who are keen to help improve the skills of younger students.

You will also have an important role in raising the

confidence to learn of these younger students.

In order to join this team you do need good numeracy

and literacy skills and you need to commit time to

prepare yourself for each support session. Please see

the back page for how to apply to become a Numeracy

or Literacy Mentor.

Future Education

Organisation

Interview skills

Act like a leader. Aim high, seek out challenges. Be part of a team, take on responsibilities.

Aim to be the best you can. Don't take easy options.

Future

Developing

Leadership

Being

Enterprising

Making decisions

Getting the best from others

Building a Team

Knowing your strengths

Positive self image

Developing ideas

University and college visits

IAG

Young Enterprise and

Young Chamber are

good choices if you

want to develop your

enterprise skills but

think about the Fund

Raising Team as well.

Problem solving

Making opportunities

Entrepreneurship

Teamwork

Finance

Ideas

Marketing

Cost decisions

Mentoring and coaching others

Working with charities

Engaging with local businesses and enterprises

Members of the JLT and

leaders of some other groups

will undergo training. There

are lots of other opportunities

to develop your leadership

skills.

You can get involved with Young enterprise and help out with school events.

Leaders

Developing

Skills

Community Involvement

Personal

presentation Getting on with others

Public

speaking and

presentation

Written and verbal skills

Contribution to school life

Helping others in school

Work experience

Media Leaders If you are interested in journalism or photography, then you may

want to become a Media Leader. You will need to be a good

listener and have, or hope to develop, excellent written and verbal

skills to succeed as part of this new team and, if you want to focus

on photography, you will need to understand the basics of how to

use a camera.

Supported by Mrs O’Halloran, the school’s Marketing Officer, you

will discover and report on the wide range of exciting events and

activities that take place at school, after school and, sometimes, at

weekends.

You will need to work as part of a small

news team, show initiative and creativity

and be driven to produce really high

quality results.

Being a Media and Communications

Leader has the potential to be great fun

and very rewarding as your stories or

photographs could be published in school

newsletters, on the school website or in the

local newspaper. You will gain experience

what it is like to operate in a marketing or

communications role for an organisation, as well as develop your

communication skills

You must be prepared to attend some after school events and also

come along to Media and Communications Leaders meetings. As

part of your application you will need to write a short (200-500

words) article about a recent activity you have taken part in, or

submit a 5-image portfolio of photographs. Please see the back

page for the rest of the application process.

Young Enterprise

The Young Enterprise Team work

together as part of a limited

company selling shares to raise

finance. Then making products or

providing services just like a real

business. Profits made will be

returned to shareholders as a

dividend when the business finishes trading. We actually

encourage shareholders to donate dividends to a charity.

It is important that everyone involved in a company plays a

full part. To join you will need to apply and will then be

interviewed, probably by someone from the business world,

this interview helps to make sure that you are well suited to

the job you perform in the company. These roles will

include Managing Director, Finance, Human Resources,

Operations, Marketing Directors and Company Secretary.

Young Enterprise is also competitive. You will be entered

into a national competition for the best companies with

regional finals in late May. You will make a formal

presentation and set up a trade stall. Winners go through

to a national final in July.

Young Enterprise won’t be running from September, but

has aims to start after Christmas. So do not apply yet, but

think about the opportunity as to whether you will want to

apply.

Young Chamber

This is a recent addition to the

opportunities within school. Although

Young Chamber involves students from

all year groups, the President and

Secretary are likely to be from Year 10,

Young Chamber members develop ideas

for events and make them happen. You

will work alongside the Fund Raising

Team with each group bringing their

own expertise to make any shared

events successful.

Any profits, other than charity donations are kept by Young

Chamber and used to finance future events.

The Young Chamber group are supported by Pardoes, who

offer the expertise when needed.

If you are already part of Young Chamber you'll probably

want to continue. If you would like to join and want some

more information please speak to Mr Feeney.

No written application is required, feel free to come along

and join!

Senior Wranglers

‘Wranglers’ are the KS4 students who are champions of

Thinking Skills in the school. Wranglers organise thinking

skills events for students and staff. They promote and

celebrate thinking skills throughout the school. Year 10

Wranglers wear a special “Senior Wranglers” badge as a

sign of their role.

A special selection conference is held in school in July as

part of the process of becoming a Wrangler.

No written application is required, Invitation only!

Duke of Edinburgh's Award

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE) is open to everybody

and does not require a written application. DofE is very

successful at Haygrove School and many of you will achieve

both the Bronze and Silver Award before leaving school.

Some of you will come back to us to gain the Gold Award.

The Award consists of four parts:

Expedition

Volunteering

Skill

Physical Activity.

You may be able to use your experiences in other "Future

Leaders" opportunities to help achieve the DofE Award.

By doing DofE you will also be helping yourself to develop

many of the skills displayed on the map in the middle of this

booklet.

What Can I Get Out of Being a Future

Leader?

The biggest benefit will be from all the new skills,

knowledge, experience and training you will gain.

You will be well equipped to go on and be someone who

makes a difference to others. You will have the

confidence to be a leader and someone who actively

takes part in life's opportunities after leaving Haygrove.

As permanent recognition of the work you will have

done you will receive a Record of Achievement to go

with your GCSE certificates. You can use this to

support further and higher education or job

applications.

Depending on which opportunities you take part in, it

may be possible to gain recognition through the Edexcel

Workskills BTEC at Level 1, 2 or 3.

Applying for a Future Leaders Post

Check out the entries for each opportunity in this booklet. Some future

leaders (all the position titles in green) do not require a written

application. All the blue colour title positions will require an

application.

For these you can choose any format you like. We will be happy with

applications which are:

Hand written

Word-processed

Powerpoint presentations

Posters

MP3 files.

In fact, pretty much anything which allows you to tell us why you would

be a good choice for the job you want to do.

What you must do in your application is include at least the following

information:

Your name and tutor group

The post or posts you are applying for

Why you will be good in this post. Talk about your skills; any

knowledge you have that would help and why your personality

would be right for the job

Why you really want this post. What will you gain from doing this

job?

All applications MUST be handed to Miss Gregg by 7 July 2014. Make

sure they are clearly marked with the leadership post you are applying

for.

If you are applying for the Junior Leadership Team post you will be

invited to an interview.

We will let you know if you have been successful in your application as

soon as possible.

If you have any problems or question about the process then feel free to

speak to any member of the current Junior Leadership Team or speak

to the lead of each of the individual posts.

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