Student Subject Leadership

We believe that students should be given a wide range of opportunities to develop and practice leadership skills in preparation for life after school. It would be impossible to list all of the opportunities students have to take on leadership roles at school. However, students will be given opportunities to develop their leadership skills within subject areas.

Student leadership activities will focus on improving the quality of learning within each subject. The Head of department or subject will give students the opportunity to lead. A maximum of two students will be chosen to be subject leaders per class per term.

Heads of subject will oversee and quality assure the activities assigned to students. Teachers will give students opportunities to develop the following leadership skills:

Initiative
Decision Making
Communication Skills
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Time management
Independent thinking

To improve the profile of our student leaders, students will be provided with Subject Leadership Badges to be pinned on their blazer lapel. Students will only be allowed to wear badges that represent some form of leadership, for instance, The Leadership Award, Subject Leaders, Year Leaders, Form Leaders, the Edge, Attendance, Duke of Edinburgh, GCSE.

Leadership Activities

Art

Leading practical art demonstrations showing specific skills to class or small groups.
Lead arrival activities
Leaders teach an art skills/model specific techniques to their peers
Pair and group work with allocated leaders to check and question students
Student led workshops on sketchbook and presentation
Student led workshop on how to analyse artists/blooms taxonomy
Leaders keep track of time during practical lessons
Leaders organise peers to monitor/check equipment/ ensure their peers are using resources safely in the classroom.

Business

Plan and lead the starter activity on the previous lesson or the lesson/topic to be taught
Summarise the lesson at the end (or previous lesson at the beginning for those absent)
Organise the creation of topic revision sheets and writing frames
Organise and lead small group discussions / teamwork
Mentor and assist low ability / under-achieving peers
Problem Solving Expert – take the lead in solving problems/scenario tasks in lesson
Lead in creating model answers following the exam structure
Business Key Terms Expert - lead in key terms revision activities
Plan, prepare and lead a lesson once a term
Research business news and share with the class once a week

Computer Science

Teamwork: support peers ie scratch coding
Problem solving: technical support
Communication skills: starter & plenary leaders

Dance

Changing room monitor - hurry pupils from changing rooms, lock doors and ensure pupils start arrival activity straight away
Decision Making – make decisions on film choices & dance styles for up and coming unit of work.
Communication Skills – lead warm ups, devise them linking to style and genre
Teamwork - find group music pieces, edit music and share them on one drive with other pupils
Problem Solving – creating and developing motifs, choose examples, make phrases before the lesson and teach to others

Drama

Initiative - shown through the inclusion of practitioners and medium influences in their work. Through the organisation of the practical space - props, set, costume, laptops etc
Decision Making - shown through the role of executive director within a group
Communication Skills - shown through collaboration in group work and feedback to teachers/rest of class/group
Teamwork - shown through collaboration in group work
Problem Solving - shown through collaboration in group work and interpretation of the stimulus
Time management - meeting the deadlines set for practical development
Independent thinking - independent research into practitioner and style/form of their piece and wider reading of play text or research

English

Checking homework
KS5 finding wider reading and revision material that could be useful
Student leaders can listen to class discussion and evaluate the thinking
Sum up what we’ve learnt and how we learnt it
Scribe the main learning points
Find arrival activities
Lead arrival activities
Put together quizzes on recent content covered
Support a lower achieving student
Cupboard monitor
Student who hands out the relevant resources
Students to collect back resources
Create revision sheets to share with the class
Leading model answer writing

Government & Politics

Lead starter/ plenary and other activities via discussion with the teacher
Leading feedback and discussion
Conduct and deliver additional research into topics covered in class as discussed with the teacher

Law

Mentor low ability / under achieving pupils
Plan and lead the starter activity on the previous lesson or the lesson/topic to be taught
Summarise the lesson at the end (or previous lesson at the beginning for those absent)
Organise the creation of topic revision sheets and writing frames
Organise and lead small group discussions / teamwork
Lead in creating model answers following the exam structure
Legal Principles Expert – explain the key legal principles
Case Law Expert – explain how the key cases illustrate the relevant legal principles
Law Key Terms Expert - lead in key terms revision activities
Lead in creating model answers following the exam structure
Plan, prepare and lead a lesson once a term
Problem Solving Expert – take the lead in solving problems/scenario tasks in lesson
Research legal news and share with the class once a week

Mathematics

Students to do:

Starters
Create a rota for starters so everyone has a go to do starters
Arrival activities

Students to monitor/check:

Equipment
Classroom presentation/tidiness
Homework completed
Uniform/nail polish

Students to teach:

Beginning of a lesson – once in a fortnight
Plan an exciting activity for a topic

Students to create:

And run a weekly maths challenge…
Which is run throughout the department- 1 per year group
A displace for the classroom
A topic revision sheet to share.

MFL

Prepare and lead arrival activities
Help students in the class
Correct exercises
Organising games and activities
Leading speaking practice

PE

Liaise with staff what equipment is needed
Organise peers to collect that equipment and take it to lesson area
Lead the warm up, using appropriate pulse raiser and dynamic stretches
Take responsibility for completion of group task work
Give coaching advice where applicable to help accelerate peers’ learning
Lead teams through tactical and strategic game plan application
Organise safe return of equipment/mats at the end of the lesson
Athletics: make sure that all times and scores are recorded, and assist with measuring
Umpire

Photography

Leading Photoshop demos showing specific effects to class or small groups
Leading camera demos showing specific skills to the class
Group crits – student-led questioning
Pair and group work with allocated leaders to check and question students
Student led workshops on layout and presentation
Student led workshop on how to analyse artists/blooms taxonomy
Student led workshop on how to save and organise files/folders effectively
Student led workshop on exam editing skills

Psychology

Mentor and assist low ability / under-achieving peers
Problem Solving Expert – take the lead in solving problems/scenario tasks in lesson
Explain/clarify when students are confused about something
Develop starter questions and answers based on the previous lesson’s teaching or summary for those absent
Check homework has been completed satisfactorily
End of lesson summary
Create a starter rota so everyone does a starter

RS

Leading arrival activities
Leading plenary activities
Leading small group work/discussions
Presenting independent work
Supporting lower achieving students
Linking current affairs to curriculum
Leading model answer writing

Science

Supporting lower achievers
Leading arrival activities
Leading plenary activities
Leading starter activities
Teaching a topic to a small group of students
Presentation of a concept to the class

Sociology

Independent thinking: Students will have opportunities to use Pixl Independence (https://students.pixl.org.uk/#!/login- they will research one aspect on the Sociology specification and feedback to whole class.
Team work: There are Sociology ambassadors in both year groups and they are available during DIRT times for other students to ask for help in order to improve their answers. Helps to foster and encourage team work.

Technology

Lead arrival or starter activity
Demonstrate equipment or method of making
Create challenge questions for the class
Plenary quiz
Health & Safety monitor
Eco-monitor