How to Train Your Student Leaders

Are you looking for a ready-to-use, high quality student leadership training programme you can deliver yourself?

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SSAT’s How to train your student leaders is a complete training package that gives school staff the confidence, structure, and resources to deliver impactful and sustainable leadership training to students. Developed by the UK’s most experienced provider of student leadership training, this offer combines a live, online, interactive training session with access to an adaptable resource pack.

What’s included?

1. Facilitator Training Workshop

In this 2.5 hour online session you will:

• Get familiar with the core content and resources for student leadership training.
• Take part in key activities, just as students would experience them.
• Explore how to adapt and deliver sessions to meet your school’s needs.
• Consider how structured training supports students’ growth, skills, and motivation.
• Build confidence in your role as a facilitator.

2. The Resource Pack

Designed for flexible use, the resource pack allows you to deliver training at a pace and timing that suits your school. Whether you run one-off workshops or regular sessions, it provides plenty of content to support ongoing student leadership development. You’ll leave with a complete, adaptable, framework to use and revisit in your setting.

Topics and activities include:

• Icebreakers, ground rules, and setting objectives
• Stepping outside the comfort zone
• Student agency and participation
• Aligning leadership values, vision, and principles
• Roles, role models, and public speaking
• Teamwork and communication
• Introduction to SSAT’s Student and School Recognition Schemes

Who it’s for

This course is ideal for student leadership coordinators, pastoral staff, form tutors, and any staff currently involved in or interested in developing and delivering student leadership initiatives. The materials are designed to cater to students of varying age ranges, abilities, and backgrounds.

What you’ll take away

By the end of the training, participants will be:

• More confident in delivering student leadership training in your school
• Equipped with practical, ready-to-use materials, activities, and ideas
• Prepared to support students in building key leadership skills
• Ready to plan and implement your next steps in developing student leadership
• Able to adapt the training to suit your context, time, and capacity

Student leadership expert

Dr Keven Bartle, Senior Education Lead, SSAT

Keven has been a teacher for almost three decades and was headteacher at a richly diverse secondary school in London for nine years. Through his career, Keven has been committed to the power of education for social justice and transformation, working in schools where staff make a difference to the lives of children, families and communities.

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