Campsmount Leadership Academy
Over the course of September, one of the Flying High Partnership Community Coaches and I worked together to set up the new Leadership Academy for Campsmount Technology College.
Application forms and job descriptions were handed out to students who were interested in applying for a position within the academy from Years 11-13. On Friday 3rd October interviews took place and 24 students attended to try to gain a position within the academy, however students were accepted at different levels.
The main aim of the academy is to develop leadership and volunteering skills of students at Campsmount, but also we are hoping this delivery will impact on the younger students and increase participation in out of school hours learning. We are going to apply for funding to get Academy uniform and look at developing a mentoring scheme for training our volunteers in their specified area of delivery.
The Leadership Academy team are now ready to go and keen to develop their leadership skills whilst being part of the Academy. the Campsmount Academy consists of the Academy Manager overseeing the programme to start with being me, then the students working underneath this. We have a Leadership Co-ordinator Katie Deere, a Vice-Leadership Co-ordinator Ben Webb and 4 Team Leaders for each chosen priority sport who are Jade Storer for Netball, Kyle Handley for Football, Linda Maxfield for Dance and Ben Webb for Rugby. Then working underneath each team we have got various leaders, assistant leaders and trainees, as well 2 Marketing and Publishing Co-ordinators.
The team are going to meet on a regular basis to look at how they can not only develop PE & Sport in Campsmount, but also within our Pyramid, working within the feeder schools as well so watch this space!!!
C.Knowland (Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator)