Student Enrichment

Sixth Form Leadership Opportunities

School Council Leadership

Head Student in Year 13

2 Deputy Head Students in Year 13

Roles:

• Organise School Council sessions with the other leaders linked to a specific year group
• Run one of either the Confidence, Respect or Success Council
• Complete Student Voice with their year groups
• Meet half termly with the Senior Leadership Team
• Partake in assemblies
• Input into the Cambridgeshire Student Forum

Community Leadership

Roles:

• Liaise with Head of Primary Phase re roles in primary phase. This may include readers, listening to the students, TA roles. General volunteering within the primary phase.
• Liaise with the local care homes and organise an afternoon tea in school
• A role within Remembrance Day organisation
• Links to the local church
• Links to the local foodbank
• Public speaking roles at open evenings

Charity Leadership

Roles:

• Liaise with a Sixth Form Tutor/TBC to decide charity fundraising for the academic year and choose the charities
• Complete a charity board advertising the events
• Promote fundraising
• Canvas the school population for the charities to represent
• Publish and advertise the charity fundraising successes

 Academic Mentors

1 Sixth Form student to represent each subject area

Roles:

• Become a subject specialist for a specific subject in KS3/4
• Liaise with the Head of Department/Head of Faculty
• Volunteer to work with students either in lessons or on a one to one, offering subject specific guidance. Overall organisation and monitoring with Mrs Paul/Mrs Fisher
• Discussion of successful study skills and retrieval ideas with lower school delivering assemblies

Senior Subject Ambassadors

1 student in year 12

1 student in year 13

Roles:

• To meet pupils selected by Heads of Year to engage in pupil voice
• Meet with Middle Leaders in different subjects to discuss pupil feedback

Sports Committee Leadership

2 Sixth Form leaders

Roles:

• To meet with the Head of PE on a half-termly basis to provide feedback and suggestions on the PE curriculum and College sport
• To assist in the end of term sports assembly
• To communicate with the Sports Captains regarding suggestions prior to meetings
• To provide feedback of meetings to Sport Captains
• Motivate and encourage healthy active lifestyles
• To actively participate in sport in College

House Captain Leadership

4 Sixth Form leaders

Roles:

• Meet with Enrichment Lead and Learning Hub Manager to discuss house competitions
• Inspire, motivate and lead
• Ensure all houses have full representation in all competitions

Wellbeing Mentors

2 Sixth Form leaders

As many as offer for the actual role

Roles: 

• To attend and participate in mentor training sessions and meetings
• To undertake regular meetings with your mentee during form time; as well as making yourself available to your mentee to contact you during break times as the need arises
• To support your mentee with social and mental health concerns, helping identify issues and offering guidance
• To support your mentee where relevant, with improving literacy, numeracy and other subjects
• Seeking help from staff members, for yourself and your mentee where required
• Sharing concerns about your mentee or other pupils with relevant staff members
• To act as a role model to others in the College
• To organise the lower school mentors

Anti-Bullying Committee

2 from each year (but more if interested)

Roles:

• To attend and participate in half termly meetings
• Support younger mentees
• Sharing concerns about students with relevant staff members
• To act as a role model to others in the College
• To organise the lower school committee members

Reading Mentors

As many as offer for the actual role

Roles:

• To attend and participate in reading mentor training sessions and meetings
• To undertake regular meetings with your mentee during the allotted times
• To support your mentee with reading and vocabulary development through a range of strategies
• Seek help from staff members, for yourself and your mentee where required
• Share concerns about your mentee or other pupils with relevant staff members
• To act as a role model for reading to others in the College

 Personal Development Programme

At Cromwell we aim to make our Personal Development (PD) curriculum vibrant by providing a number of outside speakers, gaining hands on life skills and fundraising. There are also a variety of trips for both information and guidance and for fun.

Below is the outline of activities in Year 12 which take place during PD sessions: 

 

We have additional speakers coming into the college to speak to our post 16 students on important issues such as, voting and how to register, and the National Citizenship Scheme.

We also offer educational trips and visits to various destinations:

• The Houses of Parliament and the London Eye
• Lessons from Auschwitz - Poland
• European Visit
• University Open Day
• Alton Towers

In Year 13 our focus from September to December is UCAS, apprenticeships, CV writing and interview skills.

From January onwards we want each of our Year 13 students to have a very specific mentoring session. This means the personal development slot is used for academic mentoring sessions on a one to one basis. This includes discussion around study skills, attendance, future dreams and current performance.