Wider Opportunities

Student Leadership Opportunities at Hawkley Hall High School.

Principles

  • Students engage in extra-curricular activities and playing an active part in the school community.
  • Students further develop resilience, confidence and independence.
  • Students support each other with learning and other aspects of school life.
  • Students have more opportunity to engage in purposeful activity during unstructured time.
  • Students gain more opportunities to build links beyond the school with charities, education providers including primary schools and other organisations.
  • Students engage in Student Voice activities that impact on school provision.

Current Student Leadership Opportunities:

  • Year 11 Leadership Team: A group of Senior Prefects led by the Head Boy, Head Girl and their deputies. They carry out a variety of tasks including working closely with the school SLT, leading student panel interviews for teaching posts, presenting to different groups through assembly and other forums, leading student reviews of school practice, school tours and chairing meetings
  • Year 11 Prefect Team: Students supervise areas and assist students at break and lunchtime. They also support school events such as Open Evening and Parent’s Evening. They receive training before commencing the role.
  • Shadow Y10 Prefect team: They cover for Year 11 student prefects, gaining experience of the role.
  • Form Representatives: Students are elected to represent their form and contribute to whole school improvements. For example, reviewing the ‘Hawkley Way’.
  • Transition Buddies: Students in KS3 that support Year 5 and 6 students on visits to school and during their initial period of settling in.
  • Environmental teams in KS3 & KS4: A developing programme to help support sustainability and climate change within our school and wider community.
  • Charity Teams: A developing programme to enable Hawkley students to display the Hawkley values and virtues through kindness throughout each year group.
  • PSHE Student voice: Empowering Hawkley students to be inclusive and tolerant in an ever-changing society.
  • Other opportunities that develop leadership include: Music and Drama groups including school productions (all years), Wigan Athletic Enterprise Groups.

All training for student leadership is delivered in house by staff and senior prefects, previously staff have worked in partnership with UFA.  For more details of their principles and support for young leaders please go to http://www.ufa.org.uk.

At Hawkley we have a wide range of extra-curricular activities that are accessible both at lunchtime and after school, extracurricular activities can play a key role in building life skills and can benefit all pupils, including improving outcomes around attainment.  With this in mind our students have access to over 60 clubs to select from.