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Student Leadership
Leadership at De La Salle College is seen as service. Students are encouraged to explore the concept that good leaders are required to serve others to be effective. Leadership is not a selfish pursuit, rather, it is an intangible quality that allows others to learn and grow. The College acknowledges the important role our young people will play as leaders of industry, politics, sports, arts, commerce and society. As educators, we must examine what skills and traits our students need to possess to be confident, inspiring and respectful leaders.
All students are given the opportunity to learn and practise leadership and this commenced last week for our Year 5 to 8 leaders with the Young Lasallian Leadership Conference. The Youth leaders explored the theme of growing into leadership and the skill sets required by students of the 21st Century to strive towards.
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As middle school students continue through their schooling years, stuck between adolescence and entering adulthood, these leadership programs offer support and guidance. Throughout their time at the Tiverton Campus, our students are provided both explicit and implicit opportunities to practise their leadership skills and begin their journey of understanding how they might lead others. Integral to these programs is the belief that leadership is something that can be learnt and not something we are born with.
The goals of student leadership at De La Salle are to:
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- encourage students to understand and create their own model of good leadership,
- enable greater self-awareness and understanding of themselves as leaders,
- encourage students to believe leadership can be learnt by anyone,
- enable students to understand, learn, and practise the skills required to be an effective leader,
- inspire students to use leadership roles to serve the School and the community, and
- foster collaborative leadership practices.
Congratulations to the new student leaders in Years 5 to 8 and looking forward to working with you throughout 2023 and hopefully beyond.
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Director of Students Tiverton Campus
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