Students of grade 7 to 10 receive leadership positions that boosts their self-esteem, improves communication skills, teaches them to identify their strengths and weaknesses and they learn to work in a team. These young candidates are selected through sociocracy in which their classmates nominate each other for the different posts of the students’ council. Finally the student leaders are elected through a democratic and fair election process. This is their first lesson in active citizenship and driving change for a better tomorrow.
If you see students managing the school traffic, don’t be surprised. They are members of the Traffic Management Committee (TMC) who strategize to streamline the end of the day school traffic. This initiative is highly popular among the students and has certainly helped to reduce the chaos during the exits of buses, cyclists and parents from the main gate. Students who volunteer for this duty work under the supervision of their teachers and senior students. This year we plan to form Student Green teams who will be the heart of green school efforts and will work to reduce paper wastage and electricity consumption in the classrooms, and create awareness about saving water especially in the school washrooms. BUZZ KHS 26.6 our in-house radio program is the hub of leadership development. It s a student led program which presents informative, educational and entertaining content. Over the years we have observed Buzz KHS students transform into confident and articulate team players performing crucial roles such as radio jockeys, content writers, musicians, technicians and many more.
We are extremely proud of young mentors in the making who are part of the GenDerations program conceptualized by Stephan Herman. KHS G is the first school in Pune to implement this program which enables students to recognize and articulate their feelings in resolving their own and interpersonal conflicts. We believe the experience a student gains from a leadership role in school is highly valuable. This responsibility immerses the students in an environment which offers a vision to think big and provides opportunities to voice opinions from a position of influence. It’s important to cultivate and simultaneously nurture a vision of effective leadership among children. With this objective in mind last year we hosted the first residential Student Leadership Conference wherein 60 students from Pune came together, developed leadership skills, networked with fellow student leaders, shared and engaged in new experiences.
We are committed to foster not only leadership qualities but also encourage our students to develop rigour in learning and pursue their academic goals. Each student’s identity as a competent, lifelong learner and agent of positive change is diligently promoted. I envision school programs to become effective incubators of learning where students are not only educated but challenged, nurtured and encouraged.
