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Junior School<br />
Providing leadership<br />
opportunities for students<br />
Being part of a larger school community has many benefits<br />
for our Junior School. Having older students of SMC<br />
work in partnership with our Junior School students allows<br />
our girls to learn, respect and look up to their 'older sisters'.<br />
It helps give them direction, aspiration and inspiration. Our<br />
senior students at SMC are simply wonderful role models<br />
to our Junior School girls.<br />
Even though our Senior School provides our school with<br />
student leaders, we think that it is important to provide<br />
our Year 5 and 6 students with leadership opportunities.<br />
As such, we call our Year 6 students “Junior Seniors”! The<br />
benefits of developing leadership capabilities at a young age<br />
allows various social, intrapersonal and interpersonal skills,<br />
all of which are becoming more essential to members<br />
of a community.<br />
Benefits include giving students<br />
a voice or a way to learn how to express<br />
ideas or goals in a productive and constructive way; allowing<br />
students to communicate with adults and other peers which<br />
teaches them negotiation, communication and team work;<br />
developing a strong self-identity and confidence; teaching<br />
students how important it is to contribute to a community;<br />
beginning to develop team building skills by setting goals,<br />
planning and delegating tasks.<br />
All these are prevalent in varying degrees when students are<br />
encouraged in any way to be leaders of any age. In the Junior<br />
School it may be through committing to be a librarian, or IT<br />
leader, a lunch time monitor to the Junior Juniors, a sports shed<br />
monitor or part of our Junior School Executive.<br />
Julie Calder – Head of Junior School<br />
“Leadership responsibility, whether it be big or small, all contribute<br />
to the development of teaching our girls to 'Live and Lead'.”<br />
AUTUMN <strong>2017</strong> 21.