Leadership Service
Leadership Vision – To create a culture of leadership at the School – where all students have a deep understanding of ‘servant leadership’, possess a belief that they can lead and actively embrace the opportunities we create for them to do so.
Duke of Edinburgh Award
The Award is a fully inclusive program and has no social, political, or religious affiliations.
To achieve an Award, each young person must learn a skill, improve their physical wellbeing, volunteer in their community and experience a team adventure in a new environment. All Participants are supported by a network of adult Award Leaders, Assessors, and Supervisors.
To achieve an Award, each young person must learn a skill, improve their physical wellbeing, volunteer in their community and experience a team adventure in a new environment. All Participants are supported by a network of adult Award Leaders, Assessors, and Supervisors.
The key elements of the program are:
- Open to all young people aged 14 to 24.
- Three levels: Bronze, Silver, and Gold – each progressively more challenging.
- Four Sections: Physical Recreation, Skills, Voluntary Service, Adventurous Journey plus Gold Residential Project (Gold Level only).
- Achieving an Award recognises individual goal setting and self-improvement through persistence and achievement.
Through this challenging journey of self-discovery, our participants:
- are equipped and empowered to achieve their personal best
- learn to take responsibility for their goals and choices
- become connected to and actively engaged within their immediate community
- make a real difference to society through their positive contributions and involvement
- learn to persevere and overcome barriers to success
- learn important life skills
- increase their career opportunities.
Student Leadership
Hills Grammar Student Leaders, appointed in both our Junior and Senior Schools, play a key role in supporting and guiding the student body.
They foster a sense of identity, spirit, and belonging within their respective Houses, advocate for all students, represent the School’s public image, and uphold its traditions and values. Students have numerous opportunities to join the Student Leadership team at Hills Grammar, whether as a Prefect, Co-Curricular Captain, House Captain, or School Captain.
Leaders are expected to align with, embody, express, and enact the School’s Ethos and Character. Effective leadership is crucial for optimising student learning and wellbeing as we strive to fulfill our aspirations for them, as outlined in our Graduate Aim, and inspire them to achieve more than they believed possible as ‘Originals’.
Student Leadership allows students to:
- work as a member of a team
- develop and build positive relationships, between peers and teachers
- contribute to the school community
- use their voice responsibly
- value the perspectives and opinions of others
- participate in decision-making.
Service Learning
Students have the opportunity to participate in many Service based activities both within our campus and in the wider community.
Service Learning opportunities are wide ranging and include interacting with elderly residents at the local Aged Care Facilities to volunteering to be part of our Early Bird Reader group or assisting our smallest students at our Early Childhood Education Centre.
What can be achieved through Service Learning?
- Positive impact on academic outcomes such as demonstrated complexity of understanding, problem analysis, problem-solving, critical thinking, and cognitive development
- Improves students’ ability to apply what they have learned in “the real world”
- Greater sense of personal efficacy, personal identity, and moral development
- Greater interpersonal development, particularly the ability to work well with others, and build leadership and communication skills
- Reduced stereotypes and greater inter-cultural understanding
Improved social responsibility and citizenship skills
Interested in being part of Hills?
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