All Partnership, Ansford

Academy continues to promote High Quality Leadership Opportunities

April 30th, 2010

The first cohort of Young Leaders to take part in the Partnership Leadership Academy recently attended their second session of activity at Kings School in Bruton. Along with similar students from Tone School Sports Partnership, Year 7 – 10 pupils from Ansford experienced a day of theory and practical activity to support them in developing their Leadership skills. Enthusiasm was high from all concerned and a real desire to go further was demonstrated by the students.

 

 
Leadeship Academies are designed to take the very best student leaders and offer them information and education in Leadership which is often delivered as high as business corporate level. This academy was no different with the skills of negotioation, communication and brokering all being addressed.

 
Working with a mentor in each group students took part in a variety of challenegs designed to encourage their team work skills and building on previous academy experiences. The final activity required whole rgoup cooperation where a veriety of challenges and puzzles were set which really tested their ability to work cooperatively to be a successful as they can be. part of this was to produce Leaders poems, a couple of which are below:
 

When you start make a plan
Get all the ideas you can
Communicate: talk or show
Make sure that your team all know

Don’t do it all: delegate
Improve the plan: negotiate
Leading is a team effort
Even if you’re bad at sport

 
To learn to lead and help each other
To trust and cherish one another
When someone’s down, we lend a hand
When someone jumps we help them land

When someone cries we help them smile
Objectives they may take a while
But in the end we follow through
I am a leader true and true   

 
The students are now working on events and activities where they can use their skills more often in schools before looking ahead to the final installment of their programme which will be a residential trip in the autumn when everything will be brought together.
I big thank you once again should go to Kings School in Bruton for hosting the academy and being so accommodating, to Chris Ray and his team for their commitment and patience in delivery and to Karen Arnold and Lucy Mowlam Asst PDMs for coordinating the whole project.

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