Leadership Curriculum
Learning Branch – Leadership
This learning branch is offered to students in Years 5 to 10.
The example below is for Year 7 and 8 students.
Leadership Years 7 and 8.
Creating inspired and motivated leaders is the primary focus throughout the leadership learning branch. Students are actively involved in learning activities that allow innovative thinking and creativity. Students are also challenged to work and learn in teams to solve problems and overcome obstacles while focussing on achieving a common goal. Students are particularly challenged to take an innovative and initiative-based approach to their contribution to the team, striving to unearth characteristics of leadership within themselves.
Learning Area/Capability |
Strand |
Sub Strand |
Content Description |
Foci |
| Health and Physical Education | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing | Investigate the benefits of relationships and examine their impact on their own and others’ health and wellbeing | Students will be given the opportunity to demonstrate positive and inspiring behaviours in a safe learning community environment.
Positive Behaviour |
| Health and Physical Education | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing | Analyse factors that influence emotions, and develop strategies to demonstrate empathy and sensitivity | Students will be encouraged to understand and discover leadership qualities within themselves and apply these characteristics to a team environment.
Leadership Qualities |
| Critical and Creative Thinking | Meta-Cognition | No sub strand | Consider a range of strategies to represent ideas and explain and justify thinking processes to others | Students will be given the opportunity to reflect on and become more familiar with aspects of human interactions, emotions and feelings; including empathy, self-efficacy and conflict resolution.
Reflection and Conflict Resolution |
| Personal and Social Capabilities | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience | Discuss the range of strategies that could be used to cope with difficult tasks or changing situations (VCPSCSE036)
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Students will develop skills in communication and cooperation and will be able to make constructive contributions to team success.
Cooperation |
| Personal and Social Capabilities | Self-Awareness and Management | Collaboration | Perform in a variety of team roles and accept responsibility as a team member and team leader, assessing how well they support other members of the team (VCPSCSO041) | Work collaboratively, negotiate roles, and delegate tasks to complete challenges within a team environment.
Working Collaboratively |