Developing Citizens of the Future
Student leadership at Rowville Primary School is fostered through a range of formal and informal opportunities that lead to the development of community service. The result of seven years of learning at Rowville Primary School is a well-rounded and ethical student who has a deep sense of responsibility.
Our Students Understand Themselves as Learners
They are supported to find their own voice within our school and are empowered to have agency in their learning. Our teachers work alongside our students to set learning goals and identify the strategies they will use to achieve them. In this way, students own their learning.
We structure our learning experiences to ensure students have the capacity to act in the world and a willingness to lead others. When we empower students, we enhance engagement in their learning, the school and our community.
Students are encouraged to take on leadership roles from all year levels, with increasing responsibility as they advance.
We believe every student has the capacity to lead by demonstrating initiative, responsibility, creativity, and care for others.
Opportunities to Develop as Leaders
Elected Leadership Positions
These positions involve organising and leading specific events, participating in decision-making processes, and advocating for the needs and interests of other students. Activities, both in and out of the classroom, are designed to build cooperation, decision-making, and teamwork skills, preparing students to work effectively with others.
School Captains
School Captains form a leadership team and represent the beliefs and values of Rowville Primary School. They promote the school vision for our community. The role involves modelling leadership, mentoring and upholding of our school values to a high standard to which other students can aspire to achieve. Duties include representing the school at community events, greeting visitors to the school, mentoring junior students and fellow leaders, as well as organising and supporting school events.
House Captains
These are the sporting captains who collaborate with the Health and Physical Education teacher to initiate a range of “get active” initiatives during recess and lunchtime. This may include running club, handball tournaments, and soccer skills.
Student Led Working Parties
Senior students are elected to working parties where they collaborate to lead various initiatives
- Cultural Team (ANZAC Day, Harmony Week, NAIDOC, Remembrance Day
- Environment Team (gardening, caring for chickens, sustainability initiatives)
- Community Service Team (kinder visits, old age home visits, selling Remembrance Day badges)
- Health Team (preparation of stocks, sauces and pastry to be used in cooking classes, trial of healthy snacks that can be produced by the cooking collective, and implementation of nutrition week)
- Peer Support Team (welcome of new and international students, pop-up lunchtime activities where they share passions with peers, buddy bench support in the playground)
Leadership Stewardship
We aspire for our students to develop a deep sense of responsibility by the time they are in year six- not just to the year six team but to the greater purpose of the Rowville Primary School and the local community.
Year Six School Ambassadors
Students in Year Six participate in a school ambassador program. As they embark on their final year of primary school, they are reminded of the incredible potential and endless possibilities that lie ahead by embracing the responsibility, care and long-term impact that they can have by stewarding the opportunities that they have been entrusted.
The final year at Rowville Primary School begins with a unit of work where students study real-life examples of leaders and how they have made a difference in the world. The unit of work inspires our students to harness the power of the school values of perseverance, pride, responsibility, and respect to develop the subskills of leadership.
As part of this program, they act as buddies for Foundation students. This role is centred on students identifying and following through with initiatives that are of service to the school community. This promotes an understanding that anyone can lead through serving others. Students learn that having a desire and an idea to improve a situation, together with the ability to recruit others to collaborate with them on a project, can make a small positive change.
Year Six School Ambassadors Stewardship Initiatives
During Term One, students collaborate in groups to identify a project of their own choosing. values of responsibility, respect, perseverance, and pride through a range of initiatives. The invite students in years four to six to collaborate with them in projects.
Year Foundation-Year Three
- Classroom monitors
- Upholding school values
