Student Leadership

In our rapidly changing and increasingly complex global community, we need strong and diverse leaders. At Cranbrook, we believe that leadership experience and education for youth has become essential to help young people tackle and transform the challenges of today's "real" world: the responsibilities and needs of life beyond the realms of home and classroom.

What is Leadership?
Following the best practices of the many leadership models, we believe leadership is a relationship of serving and empowering others to make a difference in our world. It is not about power, control, authority or even the leaders themselves; it is a shared process of building a stronger community, improving the way things are done, developing better relationships, showing compassion for others and making our world a better place. In their commitment to a common purpose, our leaders learn to be both self-reflective and action-oriented individuals who can develop a vision, create new ways of seeing and doing, challenge the process, enlist and encourage others on their journey, unleash energy, solve problems, raise awareness, help others, share opportunities, facilitate change and create results; perhaps most significantly, they learn to empower and recognize others in their initiatives to accomplish a goal.

At Cranbrook, we believe leaders are made, not born. Leadership is not an innate trait or gift in an individual reserved for only for the most "accomplished"; all people, all students can be leaders. Our leadership programme seeks to nurture and develop this potential through a student-centred and student-led experiential model, guided through mentorship, education and lots of experience.

Leadership Opportunities
Led by Mr Taylor, Mulgrave's Student Leadership Programme provides of a myriad of enrichment opportunities outside the formal curriculum. Students can grow in character and practise leadership skills through the Community Service Programme, the Duke of Edinburgh's leadership programme, Student Council, Student Voice, Peer Mediators and Mentorship, Eco-Committee, the House Captains system, Sports Leadership and other school activities such as, foreign trips.