Student Leadership

Course Synopsis

This course empowers students to become service leaders, driving positive change within their chosen stream: Community or Sports.  It requires a high degree of self-discipline and self-motivation, as you'll be responsible for independently driving your projects. You'll engage in a monthly design cycle, where your group will conceptualize, plan, and execute impactful service leadership activities. This could involve everything from facilitating a portion of a Junior School lesson to organizing a vibrant lunchtime event. The culmination of your journey will be the collaborative planning and execution of a student leadership conference in June, specifically designed for middle school students from neighboring schools.

Sports Stream

The Sports Stream hones your coaching, teaching, and team-building skills through regular opportunities to lead peers and younger students. You'll learn to inspire activity, promote inclusivity, and apply sport psychology principles, fostering a positive sports culture within and beyond Stratford Hall.

Community Stream

The Community Stream focuses on developing your ability to identify community needs and lead impactful initiatives. You'll gain hands-on experience in project & events management, marketing, communication, stakeholder engagement, and feedback integration, empowering you to create positive change and foster a more inclusive and supportive environment.

Leadership 12 provides motivated students with the opportunity to contribute to the school and wider community. Students will develop the organizational tools necessary to perform a leadership role. The course requires students to plan and implement programs that will benefit others in the school and community at large.

Leadership is a comprehensive undertaking of all the core competencies. Communication, creative and critical thinking, personal and social connection, and cultural identity are all explored within each level of leadership curriculum which is rooted in the service of others. Learning to connect to their community and school through acts of service helps to develop empathy and citizenship.

These courses are designed to give students the opportunity to develop personal responsibility and individual leadership skills.  Emphasis will be placed on having students explore, develop, and apply leadership skills within the school, community and world. Planning and running service projects, school activities, and supporting the larger school community are essential and often focus is chosen by the students in the course that year.

Personal skill development will include recognition of leadership styles, communication, interacting in group work, event planning and implementation, time management and organization, public speaking, and personal and social responsibility. There will be a variety of opportunities provided to leadership students to practice and enhance these skills. Leadership will require a great deal of self-reflection and planning.