Leadership Programme

For Class Committees

27 January 2010
 Leadership Programme
For Class Committees
• Part 1 : Leadership
• Part 2: Class Committee
 Leadership : A choice.

• Do YOU want you to be a leader or a follower?

• Leadership is an opportunity that will knock on
your door few times in your lifetime.

• If you refuse to open,you will realise that one

day this opportunity will knock no more.

• That is the moment when you realised you have

become a follower for life!
 5 Steps
In Helping You
To Become
A Leader
 What is Leadership?
• Being a leader and developing leadership
skills
• It is a skill that can be learned!
 What makes someone a leader?
• One of the most important traits of a leader is
the ability to make decisions for your self, being
able to stand up to peer pressure and set a
personal standard of behavior.

• “Being a Leader” does not necessarily mean that

a person is in a position to tell others what to do.

• Have a little more confidence in themselves than

others does not mean someone has leadership
skills.
5 Qualities of a “Leader.”
 A “Leader” says “Yes, I Can!”
It’s called the power of a Positive
Attitude.
• A Leader understands there will be many people
throughout their life who will tell them why they CAN
NOT do or be something.

• A leader stays focused on maintaining a positive

attitude no matter what the people around them say
or do.

• A leader stands up to peer pressure everyday to

make the right choices for themselves or their team.
 A “Leader” says “It’s not a
problem, it’s a Challenge!” It’s
called Overcoming Adversity.
• Every day life is filled with challenges,
however, many people call them
“problems”
• One of the crutches in life that leaders do
not use is the phrase “I Can’t.”
• Leaders learn very quickly in life that
saying “I can’t” is just an excuse not to try.
• It makes it easy to give up. The first step
to being a leader is to always say “Yes, I
Can.”
• There is always another solution.
• You just need to ask a different or better
question to find more solutions.
• Each challenge in life is an opportunity to
learn a new lesson.
A “Leader” says “Never give up,
never give up, never give up!”
It’s called Perseverance.
• The easiest answer or path whenever something
gets hard in life is to stop or give up. 

• A Leader knows that the easiest path is not

always the best path.

• Quitting is easy. It’s a habit that begins at a

young age. You need to learn at a very young
age the power of building positive habits in life.
A “Leader” says “Never give up,
never give up, never give up!”
It’s called Perseverance.

• From a young age ,learn to develop a

habit of persistence and fulfilling
commitments.
• Remember: “Suffering is temporary. Glory
is forever.”
 A “Leader” says “I may fail or make
mistakes BUT I always learn and
move ahead!” It’s called
Commitment.
• Mistakes and failure are an integral part of life.
We tend to learn the most in life from our
mistakes or failures

• Leaders learn to do their best and are not

beaten down by their mistakes.

• A leader learns to ask them selves a powerful

question each time they make a mistake or fail;
“What can I learn from this experience?”
 A “Leader” says “I will always do
my best!” It’s called Excellence.
• “EXCELLENCE” or doing your
very best, is a daily decision.

• It’s too easy to be average.

A “Leader” says “I will always do
my best!” It’s called Excellence.
• It takes a focused effort every day to
do your best. It really is an attitude.

• Leaders choose to do their best in

everything they do. It’s not about
being better than other people, it’s
just about challenging yourself to be
your best.
A “Leader” says “I will always do
my best!” It’s called Excellence.
•Do your own best
and not worry
about comparing
yourselves against
other people.
 Class Committee
• Giving each pupil a sense of responsibility
• Help pupils to feel that they are also
contributing something worthwhile to the
class.
• The child gains a sense of belonging to
the classroom which helps to nurture his
potential.
 Class Committee
• Its like a family.
• 6 Hours X 5 days = 30 Hours Per Week
• Promote unity, support and care within the
class.
• Sense of belonging.
Specific Roles In The Class
Committee
• Class Committee
• Giving each child a sense of responsibility helps them to feel that they are also contributing something worthwhile to the class. The child gains a sense of belonging which
helps to nurture his potential.
• The following are some examples of duties that can be assigned to pupils: Prefects, i/c of discussion and decision making (6); A V Maintenance Officers (2); Duty
Monitors (4); Teacher Callers (2); Group Leaders (4); Assistant Group Leaders (4), Pastoral Care Board Monitors (4); Consent Form Collectors (2); Board and Wall
Decorators (4); Point System Collators (2); Register Monitor (1); Subject Rep - English (1), Maths (1), Mother Tongue (1), Science (1), Social Studies (1), Health
Education (1), Art (2); Computer Monitors (4); Librarians (2).
• C Display of Class Photos
• Mount photographs of the children in your class.
• This could be a group photo of the whole class or photographs of those who are Librarians, Prefects, Monitors, members of the same CCA (eg. Band, Scouts, etc and
preferably in their respective CCA uniforms). There should be a brief description of the activity and the name of the child below the photo.
• D Birthday Chart
• Draw up a chart to show the names of children born in the same month. Actual birth dates should also be included.
• E Buddy System
• In this system, two children are paired together.
• They help keep each other informed of what's going on in school when one is absent. They also help each other complete homework assignments. Two pairs of buddies
are encouraged to merge to form a study group after school.
• Buddy journaling is an effective way of helping children to open up to their friend or buddy. To start off the teacher gives them a topic to write about. They are given time to
write to each other. The buddy gets to comment on his buddy's journal immediately in class. It is vital that the teacher facilitates this activity for at least two weeks and
during lesson time so that children can gain confidence to write comments in their friends' journal. This activity should be done in class so that the teacher can assist those
who may need help.
• F Pastoral Care Board
• Each child in the class has a colourful emblem (a shape) with their photographs on it. They also write their strengths and their interests on the emblem.
• A Pastoral Care Board is created and all these emblems are affixed on it. Space is left beside each emblem to allow for short notes to be pinned beside it.
• Every day, pupils are appointed a partner to whom they must write a positive note. They have to sign off, with the date clearly indicated. These notes are to be dropped
into a KINDNESS NOTES JAR and the four monitors in-charge would pin the notes beside the emblem of the pupil to whom the notes belong to.
• Alternatively, the notes can be passed to the respective party and the person concerned can get it pinned up beside his/her emblem for all to read.
• The writer of the note gets 20 points for every note he writes. Due to space constraints, the note size is limited to 4cm by 4cm.
• The owner collects these notes, pastes them on a piece of A4 sized paper and files it into the Affective Education file for future reference.
• The teacher can choose to read random notes from the KINDNESS NOTES JAR before she starts each day's lesson.
• G Class Outings
• Class outings are vital to build a strong class culture of unity, support and care.
• Children are made to recount positive experiences of their trip including at least three aspects of the trip that they enjoyed and at least three things. that they had learnt
from that trip. These are written in a journal.