Rationale
The Student Leadership team within Parkside is a key part of student voice and allows students to express their opinions and ensure the student voice is heard within the school.
Involvement in leadership activities can improve students’ skills as it allows students to build confidence in working with others and skills around leadership, public speaking, and communication.
Parkside Student Leadership Programme aims to increase the opportunity for Student Leadership across the school and to enhance the input students have with rewards, wellbeing, and academic ideas.
Sixth form
The Sixth Form play a leading role in the Student Leadership with a head pupil, two deputies and four assistant heads.
The role of these pupils is to work with staff and lower school students to arrange meetings, put across views and help guide lower school leaders to help make their ideas a reality.
This allows pupils to build up their skills which will aid in UCAS, job and apprenticeship applications.
KS3 and KS4
KS3 and KS4 pupils play a vital role in the Student Leadership. Alongside representing their year group and year group issues they also can pick a section of school life (welfare, academic or rewards) that interests them and work with pupils from all year groups to enable them to pitch ideas to the Senior Leadership Team.
What have we done so far:
- Changed the one-way system within school
- Organised events such as red nose day and children in need
- Visited a residential home to build relationships within the community
- Represented the school on Remembrance Day
- Aided with Year 6 transition
- Aided with Parents Evenings
- Had conversations with the head around how pupils feel in school
- Weekly quizzes for forms to complete to push academic involvement and achievement