High Tunstall Leadership Academy

High Tunstall’s Leadership Academy is created to provide students with well-communicated leadership opportunities, as well as guidance and training to support their personal and academic development for the future.

VISION

• ‘To inspire students through an aspirational HTCS Leadership Academy, to become leaders at all levels. To support students to access a plethora of leadership opportunities to enable their potential to be realised and gain experiences to aid their future lives. To regularly celebrate the achievements of our HTCS leaders through recognition and graduation.’

STRATEGY

• To raise awareness of student leadership opportunities at all levels
• To act to create and sustain leadership opportunities provided
• To show our appreciation of leadership successes and progressions

TACTICS

The diagram below highlights suggested tactics within each area of the strategy. These are just examples and are fluid based on developments and reflections:

For a comprehensive look at what the Leadership Academy is, how you can grasp the opportunities presented, what those opportunities are, and how you can be rewarded and accredited for fulfilling these you can view our Leadership Academy Prospectus.

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Our graduated approach is not solely based on opportunities but based on the development of core leadership skills. These skills are:

The Leadership Branches

The Offer

Applying to be a Leader

As part of joining the Leadership Academy, all students must complete an application/enrolment form. They must have a particular Leadership Role in mind to join the academy as it is not only learning about Leadership but also practically applying what is being learned that is as equally as important. Once all applicants have been chosen in particular areas, the staff leads for these should then pass on all successful applications to the AHT: Personal Development who will store these securely.

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Leadership Training

As part of the Leadership Academy, students at all levels will receive training, specifically in 3 distinct parts:

1. Training related to leadership attributes
2. Training related to wider leadership skills
3. Training specific to the role

As part of the Leadership Academy, students at all levels will receive training, specifically in the following areas led by the Assistant Headteacher: Personal Development and a designated House Leader.

• Session 1 – An Introduction to Leadership and diagnostic
• Session 2 – Vision, values and principles
• Session 3 – Increasing Peer Participation
• Session 4 – Communication Part 1
• Session 5 – Communication Part 2
• Session 6 – Modelling and leading others
• Session 7 – Leading Publically (including Public Speaking)
• Session 8 – Building and Sustaining a Team
• Session 9 – Reflections and review

Your Obligations as a Leader

As part of joining the Leadership Academy, all students must sign an annual contract. This sets out the agreement of expectations as a leader for: modelling expectations; specific duties; and the benefits of being within the Leadership Academy. The contracts will be housed with the Assistant Headteacher who may be required to aid discussions where students may be in breach of their contractual obligations.

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The Portfolio of Your Actions

As part of the leadership Academy, students will graduate at key points where their achievements can be celebrated. In order to support this graduation process there is an appropriate level of evidencing that students must do in order to graduate. The level of evidence is appropriate to the level of graduation. The evidencing for each graduate level can be seen as follows:

BRONZE – Evidence as to how they have developed their own leadership using the leadership criteria.

SILVER – Evidence as to how they have developed their own leadership and the leadership of others, using the leadership criteria.

GOLD – Completed a portfolio as to how they have led a community through positive change, using the leadership criteria

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For being part of the High Tunstall Leadership Academy, students will be recognised in a number of ways.

Firstly, for recognition over the 5 years, once in a leadership post, students will be provided with a badge relevant to that area to recognise their role.  Secondly, once in a post, students will also receive a Leadership Academy pen and portfolio to support their evidencing of work over time.  Finally, once students star to complete their Leadership Portfolio, they will be invited to complete recognition levels as mentioned previously. Once they have passed, students will receive a Gold, Silver or Bronze badge and certificate, dependent on which stage they have passed.