Student Leadership

SRC Year 7 to Year 12

Student Leadership at our school begins with the vital job of electing Year Level Leaders across the school.

Students are able to nominate themselves or be nominated by a teacher or student. All nominated students are given the opportunity to present a speech to their cohort and the votes gathered by the student body help determine the students representing each year level.

As our school has evolved and grown, student leadership has become an important part of what our school is all about. We now have four School Captains, representing VCE and VCE VM. Our school captains present at various school functions throughout the year and have become the face of our school. Students develop valuable skills by working together and making their last year at the college count.

SRC students meet once a week during lunchtime where they plan leadership initiatives across the school. Students discuss what their goals are for the year and they put steps in place to plan whole school events such as Free Dress Days, Athletics and Cross Country. SRC students also attend a form assembly each morning where they can spend time gathering information from the rest of their cohort and can mingle with leaders from other year levels on a more regular basis.

The elected SRC students also help in the elections of Class Captains. Each class can nominate a class captain and can follow the same process as Year Level Leaders to run elections. Class Captains work together once a term to share leadership initiatives and are often presented to by staff and other students as they represent every class across the school.  Class Captains are also given exclusive training to help develop their skills as future leaders.

All students are given opportunities throughout the year to develop their leadership at Cranbourne Secondary College. For example, this year we had several students attend the World Vision Youth Conference. Students who elected to participate were from various year levels and did not necessarily belong to the class captains or SRC group.

Class Captains

Class captains make up one of the most important units of leadership in the college.

When nominating themselves for this position, students need to be aware that this is a large responsibility, but also a privilege.

Throughout the year a class captain will:

• Represent their class by gathering data and providing information and suggestions to their SRC representatives
• Attend meetings with the SRC members for their year level
• Provide feedback to their class about SRC decisions/meeting outcomes
• Receive leadership training
• Provide wellbeing to the class as the need arises – this could be in the form of offering support, passing on concerns, being able to inform students of correct processes and protocols in relation to wellbeing
• Work with teachers to develop curriculum and offer input on classroom practices
• Organise class events in consultation with Form teacher
• Promote class participation in school extra-curricular activities or events
• Support the SRC leaders to run whole school activities/initiatives
• Attend meetings with the YLCs or other staff as required
• Complete any additional tasks as requested by the Student Leadership Coordinator, Year Level Coordinators, Engagement Curriculum Teachers, form teacher or classroom teachers

Students interested in taking on this role are to provide their teacher with a written nomination, stating why they want a leadership role and what they think they can bring to it. Once the nominations are complete the nominees will need to prepare a speech to deliver to their class. Once this has been done the class will need to vote for their chosen representative.