Leadership

SPECIALISM

Like all Star schools, our Academy has a Leadership specialism. Our Leadership offer is designed to instil the three interdependent Star Leadership Virtues of Performance Leadership, Moral Leadership and Civic Leadership – virtues that together ensure our pupils not only ‘do their best’ but ‘do the right thing’ and play a full role in society.

We provide our pupils with a unique learning experience, which gives them the skills and confidence to lead and manage in a variety of settings and situations. Focusing on service, teamwork, ambition and respect, our Leadership initiatives promote maturity, commitment and teamwork and enable our pupils to experience what it is like to stand up and take the lead.

We promote leadership in the broadest sense – not limited to traditional public roles. We are committed to developing confident individuals who are leaders at home, amongst their peers and friendship groups, their community and, later on, in the workplace.

 

The school believes that the leadership specialism will extend and enrich the central core of the school curriculum, thus enabling pupils to deepen their knowledge and skills through application and enquiry. They will create opportunities from which pupils will acquire ‘employability,’ and make contacts which will increase their chances of progressing to work or on to Further or Higher Education. The school’s leadership offer is organised around Star’s five leadership foundations and designed to instil the three interdependent leadership virtues of: performance leadership; moral leadership and civic leadership set out in Star’s R-18 Leadership framework.  Curriculum time will be allocated to the leadership specialism in a number of ways:

  • through timetabled periods
  • discretely in half-termly Leadership Days
  • through cross-curricular working
  • through enrichment organised around Star’s five leadership foundations of sport, creativity, performing arts, enterprise and careers, charity and social action

 

Leadership Days will:

  • offer pupils the opportunity to apply their developing leadership skills in real and simulated situations
  • expose pupils to new ways of considering leadership through guest speakers, lecturers and facilitators
  • offer pupils the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of leadership through research and enquiry
  • develop further pupils’ skills in debating and public speaking through competitions and showcases • allow pupils to develop a leadership portfolio.

 

Leadership development will be encouraged by every subject as:

  • a key feature of the delivery of the GCSE core subjects will be the application of their knowledge and understanding to the specialism where the connections are meaningful.
  • Relevant qualifications in leadership, which have currency and recognition with higher education and employers, will also be utilised to support progression.
  • every faculty in the school, and every subject offered, will contribute to the achievement of Star’s leadership virtues NURTURING TODAY’S YOUNG PEOPLE, INSPIRING TOMORROW’S LEADERS