Project Title: Leadership and Creative Collaboration
School: Gable Hall Performing Arts College
Funding/Organisation: Gable Hall School
Suklaa Role: Darina from Suklaa collaborated with Claudia Barwell to design and deliver this work.
Description:
Claudia Barwell and myself were briefed by Corinne Franceschi, Deputy Head Teacher at Gable Hall School to design a day for the newly appointed Student Executive to help them become good leaders. During the packed day we considered each team member’s individual skills and talents; we ran activities that explored multiple intelligences; we looked at making change happen; we worked with ideas generation and how to host successful meetings; we helped the students pitch ideas to senior staff members. We hope this day is the start of a longer relationship with this core team of students- where we help them make change happen within their school community and beyond.
Some quotes from the participants:
I think it was good how we got to learn everyone’s strengths and weaknesses so that we can now give people tasks to work to their advantages and have people to help with their problems. It was a great day.
I’ve learnt actual life skills that I can apply in real life situations. I learnt how to handle a meeting situation and learnt a lot about myself.
We’ve discovered who we are and our strengths and weaknesses. I feel empowered to make change and don’t feel like I’m being babied anymore. I feel like my ideas are accepted and respected. Thank you so much.
If we did what we did today in year 7, we would have been a much closer group of people so much earlier on. Boundaries have been broken down, judgements of people and judgements of ourselves. Definitely an exercise everyone should have the opportunity to take part in.
If you can change 26 attitudes in a day; then if we did this with everyone, you can change everything – drastically. Everyone should do it.
