Student Leadership
At De La Salle College, leadership development is at the heart of our student experience. We provide diverse opportunities for students to discover and grow their leadership potential, recognising that leadership takes many forms and requires nurturing.
As students progress through the College, their understanding of leadership matures. By their final year, they embrace Lasallian leadership, grounded in service to the College community and beyond.
Formal Leadership Opportunities
The structure of formal leadership at De La Salle College has been created to enable as many students as is practical to experience formal leadership roles. This structure has been designed to enable learning through experience and through modelling of the behaviours demonstrated by a good leader.
Class Captains
In Years 7 and 8, students in each Mentor Group elect a Class Captain, who takes on a variety of responsibilities suited to their year level.
Class Captains meet regularly within their year group and with College Leaders to set goals and plan outcomes for the year. This model encourages active participation, organisation, goal setting and teamwork.
House Leadership
Within the House system from Years 9 to 12, students have the opportunity to serve as House Captain, House Vice-Captain, Lasallian Captain or Arts Captain.
Music Leadership
Students involved in the Music Program have the opportunity to nominate for leadership roles such as Music Captain, Music Vice-Captain, or Ensemble Captain across the College’s 15 ensembles.
Year 12 Leadership
The Student Leadership Team is made up of a College Captain and two College Vice-Captains, along with more than 20 students who lead each of the four Houses across various areas of school life.
Any student in Year 11 may apply for a leadership position. The selection process, conducted in Term 3 each year, includes a written application, shortlisting by a selection panel, delivery of speeches to the year level, a consultation survey of staff and prospective students, further shortlisting and a final panel interview.
Successful applicants take up their roles as Year 12 Student Leaders immediately following the graduation of the current Year 12 cohort each October.
Leadership Through Service
In keeping with our Lasallian ethos, we actively promote the need for all students to demonstrate leadership by example and through service.
Many students are leaders without the formal title. Leadership is experienced through service to others in:
- our College Outreach Program;
- involvement in our many social justice programs; and
- helping to organise Founder’s Day or Mission Action Day.
Often leadership is simply being of service to others in the school community through acts of kindness, cooperation and support.
Lasallian Youth Leaders
De La Salle College also offers the highly unique chance for students in Year 11 to gain another perspective, through the Lasallian Youth Leaders Program. Trained with the assistance of the Lasallian Youth Ministry, the Lasallian Youth Leaders focus on working with primary and Year 7 students and assist in the delivery of reflection days for Years 7 to 9.
