The KS4/+16 Award is a fully resourced leadership, character education and personal development programme for delivery within schools. Based on the concept of running a race the Award focuses on developing core skills for life after school and the work place.
Explore core leadership topics including communication, teamwork, conflict resolution, decision making, problem solving, critical thinking and coaching. Take part in apprentice style challenges to serve local communities.
The Award has strong links to SMSC, British Values, PSHE, Character Education, Citizenship and SIAMS.
The Short Course costs £19 per pupil + VAT and the Full Course costs £29 + VAT. This includes access to all of the online teaching and learning materials, planning and assessment materials, a certificate on completion for each pupil, a school completion certificate and training and support for participating teachers.
Please contact us about discounts available if you would like to sign up more than 180 pupils.
Full Course
Modules 1-6
Delivered one hour a week over two years.
Short course
Modules 1-3
Delivered one hour a week over one year or one hour a fortnight over two years.
Skills Based Activities
Apprentice Style Challenge
Volunteering in the Community
Setting Personal Targets
Key Stage 4 young leaders arranged a whole school event to raise funds for a local charity, Prevent Breast Cancer. Being an all-girl school the young leaders particularly identified with the work of the charity. They arranged for the whole school to take part in a sponsored run hoping to raise £1,000. Each pupil chose to either walk, run or skip a tenth of a marathon around the route the young leaders created. To their surprise the young leaders ended up with a fundraising total of over £5,000!
"I have really enjoyed the Young Leaders Award because it’s taught me a lot of skills that I didn’t have before, like patience and learning to cooperate and understanding other people’s points of view. "
We supported over 80 young leaders from six different secondary schools from across the country in a series of interactive workshops that enabled them to share, problem solve and expand their own unde
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We visited Essa Academy to find out what impact the Young Leaders Award was having on the students and teachers.
Key Stage 4 pupils from Fairfield High School for Girls arranged a whole school event to raise funds for a local charity, Prevent Breast Cancer.
