Students at Diggers Rest Primary School are encouraged to participate in a strong leadership program with experiences designed around:
 

• Building confidence and resilience

• Exercising voice and agency

• Building leadership capacity

•  Demonstrating civic responsibility

• Actively participating in the school and community

• Being an ‘upstander’ not a ‘bystander’
   

School Captains

• 2 x positions available for grade 6 students

• Students write and submit an application to the principal 

• Applicants are shortlisted to participate in a 10-minute interview in with school leadership and 2 x grade 5 student representatives

• Successful applicants are appointed via merit and equity processes 

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Junior School Council

• 7 x positions available for grade 5 & 6 students

• Students write and submit an application to the principal

• Applicants are shortlisted to participate in a speech in front of their grade 3-6 peers

• Students in grades 3-6 vote for their preferred junior school council members

• Votes are calculated and successful applicants are appointed 

 

House Captains

• 8 x positions available for grade 3-6 students

• Students write and submit an application to the P.E teacher

• Applicants are shortlisted to participate in a speech in front of their 'House' peers (grade 3 - 6 students)

• Students in grades 3-6 vote for their preferred house captains

• Votes are calculated and successful applicants are appointed 

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Assembly Leaders

• Classroom teachers provide the assembly coordinator a list of students that nominate to become future assembly leaders throughout the year

• 4 x students from each class are selected weekly to lead assembly

• Each class is rotated through weekly to ensure leaders are selected throughout the entire school

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The Student Leadership Team commence their learning through participation in the Student Leadership Program. Students learn the ‘skills’ of leadership, focusing on teamwork, negotiation and leadership roles . Students then work in teams through an ‘improvement cycle’ to develop an initiative that authentically embedded into the school and/or wider community. This may mean fundraising, contributing to the learning program or supporting a local community group. Student Leaders attend a school council meeting and are active in providing feedback about their school experience.