Redhill encourages leadership in youth
SANDTON - The future requires leaders, creativity, technical savvy, and most importantly the ability to create connections between people and ideas.
The future global economy requires these competencies from school pupils. It is commonly believed that leaders are born, not made. In fact, leadership is nurtured and developed. It does not “happen.”
On 23 May Redhill Preparatory School hosted the inaugural Leadership Summit, which saw 284 Grade 7 pupils participating in the event. Participating schools included Grayston Preparatory, Dainfern College, Kyalami Preparatory and Redhill Preparatory School. The Summit created an ideal environment for pupils to create a network which they can tap into when working on future projects within their own communities.
The Grade 7 Leadership Summit was a one day programme that provided participants with an environment designed to boost them into leadership roles that will make a change in their lives and in the communities which they, one day, might have to serve. The Leadership Summit’s focus was to empower our future leaders with an injection of vision, skill development and inspiration.
The format included small group discussions, hands-on service learning experiences, leadership simulation games and exercises designed to enable the pupils to identify their own particular leadership strengths.
The pupils were privileged to listen to speakers like Jordan van der Walt, Tshiam Ndlovu, Catherine Constantinides, Liza Ashton and Yusuf Abramjee who presented information on leadership styles who spoke of their contributions they have made in their own communities.
