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Young Leaders Award
KS2
Information Pack
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Contents:
1. Introduction to the Awards 3
2. Award at a glance 4
3. KS2 Award Overview and FAQs 5
4. Curriculum Links 10
5. Costs 14
6. Sample Lesson Plan 15
7. Young Leaders Award and SMSC 18
8. Young Leaders Award and SEAL 20
9. Next Steps 22
© 2012 The Archbishop of York Youth Trust, all rights reserved. This booklet and its content is
copyright of The Archbishop of York Youth Trust and/or its licensors. Any reproduction of all or part
of the content (except as permitted by The Archbishop of York Youth Trust under licence) is strictly
prohibited.
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Introduction to the Young Leaders Award
The Young Leaders Award is a unique and exciting product which will equip your pupils to be a force
for good in their local community. The awards are currently run at Key stages 2, 3, 4 and 5 with
thousands of children and young people across the north of England changing their communities for
the better as a result.
Our independent research shows that there is nothing else like this in England and its impact on
schools, young people and communities is outstanding. A school’s contribution to community
cohesion is significantly raised by doing the awards as the students work to bring about a positive
change in their local area through partnering with city councils, churches, local charities, community
organisations and other schools. Whilst supporting the learning outcomes for Citizenship, PSHE and
RE, the award also contributes to a number of statutory subjects including numeracy, literacy,
history, geography, music and art and design.
The following pages provide you with more information about the KS2 Award and you can also go to
our website for further details.
You can contact us in the following ways: The Archbishop of York Youth Trust Bishopthorpe Palace Bishopthorpe, York YO23 2GE Tel: 01904 707021 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.archbishopofyorkyouthtrust.co.uk
This dynamic and interactive resource will help your pupils to learn about the world around them and empower them to change their communities for the better. Archie B is a brilliant central character who engages the children and inspires them to be the change they want to see’. (Jonathan Green, Head teacher at Bishopthorpe Junior School)
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At a glance
At Key Stage 2 the Young Leaders Award resources that you will receive consist of…
A DVD Assembly Pack – including videos, games and a rap
Six lesson packs complete with plans, videos, power points and resources
An Award Theme Song
Links to PSHE, Citizenship, SEAL and SMSC
Archie’s Challenge Grid
Archie Scrap Books and Pencils
25 ideas for serving your local community
Award certificates and badges
How the Award works:
Launch Assembly: This sets up the Award and introduces Archie B, the central character
who will guide the pupils through the programme. An interactive theme song allows
pupils to write new verses each week to teach the rest of the school throughout the
award.
6 Lessons:
1. Leadership – exploring leadership skills and how we can use them to change the world.
2. Top Trump Leaders – inspiring leaders & people of faith who have changed the world.
3. The Local Community – including an interactive walk and map making exercise.
4. The National Community – looking at the ABYYT and other charities who bring about change.
5. The Global Community – Issues of justice and international charities working to bring
change.
6. Community Action – pupils prepare for and serve in a local community project.
Archie’s Challenges:
1. Archie appears in each lesson and sets the class a new challenge relating to their
learning. All the challenges are provided in the resource but can be adapted or
recreated to suit your school.
2. Each pupil works through Archie’s Challenge Grid as homework – this includes 25
ideas for serving others (e.g. putting your neighbour’s recycling away, picking up litter
etc…). Pupils complete a minimum of 5 personal challenges as they travel through the
grid including one which they must make up themselves.
3. The class is involved in a community action project.
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KS2 Award Overview
This award is based around a central character called Archie Bishop who represents many of the
young people that the Archbishop of York Youth Trust supports. Archie is a dynamic young person
who is always looking out for others and is passionate about serving his community and changing
the world for the better. However, this was not always the case for Archie since his troubled
background made it very difficult for him to engage with others and feel a part of any community.
Through the support of The Archbishop of York Youth Trust, Archie’s life has been turned around
and he’s now being the change he wants to see. Archie wants to share his story with you and inspire
you to join him in changing our communities for the better.
The table on the next page provides a comprehensive outline of the Award and the information
below explains how the community action aspect of the award is completed.
Take Action – Be the change you want to see
Throughout the award the pupils will be inspired to take action and start serving others and making
a difference in their communities. Archie will be their example to follow and the students will learn
from his experience. The community action will take place in the following three ways:
1. In every session Archie will appear, via an on screen text message, to issue the class with a
challenge which focuses on serving others and he will provide them with ideas along the
way. The pupils will need to develop various leadership skills in order to achieve each
challenge and they will complete 4 of these class based challenges throughout the Award.
We will provide you with a number of Archie Classroom challenges to choose from, but you
are free to also add and develop your own.
2. In the final session the class will organise a local community action project which they will
have identified during session 3. They will come up with ideas for how they can serve their
local area and be the change they want to see. This could include established activities that
you already run (school coffee mornings for the local elderly community) or totally new
opportunities to serve.
3. Each pupil will complete Archie’s Challenge Grid which will see them doing 5 mini personal
challenges to help them think about their own responsibility to serve and help others.
Alongside this the pupils will develop a scrap book which will provide evidence of their acts
of service.
YLA Display Board
Throughout the award your pupils will produce various pieces of creative work and we would
encourage you to create a community display wall or class book. This will help the students see their
progression through the award and you could include images of Archie, his text message challenges
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and the personal challenge grid. Pupils scrap books could also be displayed at the end of the award
as well.
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Session Learning Objectives Learning Outcomes Content Resources
Launch Assembly
To introduce the
award and share
Archie’s story
To connect Archie’s
story with the
message behind the
parable of the ‘Good
Samaritan’
To complete a
teamwork challenge
To begin to learn the
Award theme song /
rap
Pupils are inspired and
motivated by Archie’s story
and are excited to be joining
him in completing the Young
Leaders Award.
The children recognise the
importance of ‘loving your
neighbour as yourself’ and
working together in order to
‘be the change you want to
see’.
Students are familiar with
the theme song and keen to
begin writing the raps for
the remaining verses.
Gathering: An introductory video is shown which details many positive images and experiences of young
people.
Engaging: Archie introduces himself and tells his story. This begins bleakly, with a difficult start in life, but
ends with him empowered to be the change he wants to see in his community. Archie challenges the
pupils to join with him in changing their communities for the better. A modern day interpretation of the
Parable of the Good Samaritan is shown to help connect this story with Archie’s.
Responding: The pupils make the connection between Archie’s story and the Parable of the Good
Samaritan and recognise the importance of ‘loving your neighbour as yourself’ in order to ‘be the change
you want to see’. They respond by playing a challenging teamwork game to help them identify the
importance of working together to bring about change.
Sending: Finally the pupils learn the main chorus of the award theme song which they will sing in
assembly throughout the term. The students will add new rap verses each week to reinforce their
learning and share their progress through the award with the rest of school. There is an optional prayer to
end the assembly.
DVDs CD PPT Laptop / Projector
Introduction
To introduce the
Award and explore
what ‘leadership’
means.
To think about how we
can ‘be the change we
want to see’ in our
schools and
communities
Pupils will be able to explain
various aspects of leadership
and identify key leadership
skills through teamwork
challenges, mind maps and
role play activities.
Pupils will be able to apply
some of these leadership
skills to their own life as
they begin to work through
Archie’s Challenge Trail.
Following a short recap of the Award overview, pupils will be challenged to think about the one thing they
would like to change in the world. To help with this they will watch a short video and hear many opinions
on what people would like to change and this will help embed the main theme of the award in the
students’ minds. Pupils will then engage in a challenging teamwork task which will help them to begin
thinking about how leadership plays a crucial role in people bringing about change. Students will identify
many leadership skills, sum up what leadership is and put this into action through a series of freeze frame
role plays.
Archie will appear to explain his challenges which he will issue to the class via an on screen text message
each lesson. Teaching staff will explain the mini personal challenges found on Archie’s Challenge Trail
which the pupils will complete as homework each week. Following this the pupils will receive their scrap
books which accompany Archie’s Challenge Trail and they will begin to personalise these.
PPT Plastic Cups Elastic Bands Challenge Cards Flip chart paper Camera Challenge Grid Scrap Books
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Top Trump Leaders
To explore leaders
who have made a
positive impact on the
world through their
faith and leadership.
To apply leadership
skills to our own lives
and to the challenges
that we are
completing
throughout the award.
To be able to research and
present their findings on a
person of faith – identifying
leadership skills and actions
which enabled them to
change the world for the
better.
Pupils will write their own
top trump leader cards
identifying areas of
leadership that they want to
grow in while their friends
suggest areas of leadership
they are already showing.
The session begins with another challenging teamwork task which draws out further leadership skills and
character skills, such as trust and honesty, which are essential to being a good leader. The pupils will then
research a number of people of faith who have made a significant impact on the world helping to change
people’s lives for the better. They will explore their faith and leadership using a Top Trumps Card to help.
Archie’s challenge will appear on the screen via a text message and it will relate to what they have been
learning about in this session. As a class they will briefly discuss how they are going to complete this
challenge and apply their learning from the Top Trump Leader Cards to this activity. To finish the pupils
will make their own Top Trump Leader Cards encouraging them to think about the leadership skills which
they would like to develop as well as getting their friends to identify areas of leadership which they are
already showing (good communicator, listener, team player…). Pupils will finish the session working on
their scrap books and prepare for the mini personal challenges they are doing as a part of Archie’s
Challenge Trail.
PPT PE Equipment Blindfolds Top Trump Cards Laptops Archie’s Challenge Scrap Books
Local Community (2+ hours)
To take a walk around
the local area and
identify hubs of the
community and places
which are in need of
change.
To develop an
‘alternative map’ of
the local area out of
mosaic, tiles, clay, and
quilt or online via
‘Sims City’ –
identifying community
and change.
Pupils will be able to identify
key centres of the local
community (church, school,
doctors, shops, and park)
and make observations
about areas that need
improving or changing.
Students will be able to plot
their findings on an
‘alternative map’ which they
will devise themselves,
highlighting in particular
areas where they would like
to be involved in serving
others and bringing about
change.
In the first part of this session the class will take a walk around the local area / community. During the
walk they will need to note down areas which are hubs of the community: Where do people gather
together? What areas are providing services for people’s needs? They will note down these places or take
photos, whilst at the same time looking for areas where they could be involved in bringing about some
change (redecorating a rundown park, serving in a hospice). They may also like to survey local residents to
assess the needs of the community.
In the second part of this session the pupils return to class and begin plotting their findings on an
‘alternative map’. This could take the form of a standard geographical map or be more alternative
including art based designs, 3D objects, mosaics, patch work etc… The important point is that the pupils
identify the main hubs of the community and highlight places that could be changed for the better, or
areas where they would like to get involved in serving their community. Archie’s challenge will be
introduced for this week and as usual it will relate to the learning outcomes of this session. Pupils will
finish the session by working on their scrap books and preparing for the mini personal challenges they are
doing as a part of Archie’s Challenge Trail.
Cameras Clip Boards Art / Crafts Archie’s challenge Scrap Books
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National Community
To research charities
working to bring about
change on a national
level, including The
Archbishop of York
Youth Trust.
To organise a
fundraiser or non-
school uniform day
where the pupils
present their findings
about their charity to
raise awareness and
support.
Pupils will be able to
research a charity in the UK
who is working to bring
about change on a National
level. They will be able to
explain what they do, how
they are impacting others
and how people can get
involved in supporting them.
They will become
ambassadors for their
chosen charity by sharing
about them at a fundraising
event to raise awareness
and support.
The lesson begins by profiling three national charities and the pupils will watch some videos to help them
find out a little more about each one. Archie will issue his challenge at this point which will be based on
the following information: The class will be divided into groups and the pupils will decide which charity
they are going to research in more detail. The students will work on developing a 3 minute presentation
which outlines what the charity does, how they are changing people’s lives and how people can get
involved in supporting them.
The pupils will present their findings in an assembly on a non-uniform day or at a fundraising event, and
through the Waitrose/Asda fundraising token approach, staff, parents and school pupils will decide who
they want the money raised from the event to go to – this will then be divided amongst the charities.
If there is time the pupils will continue to work on their scrap book, providing evidence of their mini
personal challenges from Archie’s Challenge Trail.
PPT Charity Videos Laptops Archie’s Challenge Scrap Book Tiddlywinks Tokens
Global Community
To explore global
issues of injustice
through studying the
lives of families in
Calcutta, India
To think about ‘who
your neighbour is’ and
explore our
responsibility to serve
those in need.
To experience working
life in Calcutta through
making paper bags,
and selling them to
raise funds for charity.
Pupils will recognise the
difference between their
lives and those suffering
from poverty in other parts
of the world and will be
challenged to think about
our responsibility to serve
those in need.
Through a challenging bag-
making task the pupils will
learn more about injustice,
the work of global charities,
as well as selling the bags
they’ve made to raise
money for those in need
across the world.
This session will begin with the pupils thinking about their needs and wants. They will compare their
needs to those of families living in Calcutta and begin to gauge the difference between their lives.
Following this the pupils will be divided into teams and will complete a challenging teamwork task that
mirrors what many families do to earn a living in Calcutta, India. Various scenarios will be thrown into the
game which will create different issues of injustice and this will help the pupils to engage with the
challenging circumstances that those suffering from poverty in other parts of the world often face.
The pupils will review the game and share their thoughts about the experience, relating it to the lives of
those living in Calcutta. They will think about what it means to ‘love your neighbour’ and learn about
global charities who are working in areas of deprivation to help change people’s lives for the better. They
will also think about what they can do to serve others globally.
Archie’s challenge will be introduced via text message and it will based on the following information; As a
way of raising awareness and funds for a global charity the students will decorate the bags that they
made in the session and sell them along with home-made cakes in school and at local community events.
If there is time the pupils will continue to work on their evidence scrap books.
PPT Want & need cards Paper Chance cards Money cards Glue sticks Pens / Crayons Craft materials Archie’s Challenge Scrap books
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Community Action
To prepare for and
complete your
community action
project
The class will ‘be the change
they want to see’ through a
community action project
based on the needs
identified in session 3.
This session will be used to help the class decide on and prepare for their community action project. This
will ideally be based on the things which the pupils identified in session 3, but it could also include other
ideas for community projects. The teaching resource includes many ideas for serving your local
community and this session may be used for completing this challenge if your community action project is
already prepared. Pupils will also work on completing their scrap books if necessary.
PPT Scrap Books
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How will the students earn the Award?
You’ll be pleased to know that there is no test or exam to sit with the Young Leaders Award at
Keystage 2! We want to celebrate the amazing things your pupils do and have designed a creative
way for them to provide evidence of their work through the award. Each pupil will receive an Archie
Scrap Book which they will fill in as they progress, identifying the different things they did through
the challenges to ‘be the change they want to see’. This might include pictures, creative writing,
diary or journal entries, drawings, artwork reflections and so on. We won’t ask to see every child’s
book, but may request a sample from the class to be sent to us so we can see the amazing things
your pupils have done – you could put the rest on your YLA display board in school. We’ll then
release the award badges and certificates to you in order for you to award your pupils at their
presentation event.
The challenges can be as varied as you like and can include established links with the community and
activities that you already run locally throughout the year. You are free to tailor Archie’s classroom
challenges to your schools’ needs and even add your own challenge ideas to Archie’s Challenge Grid.
We are very happy to support you in these activities and if you required any advice or assistance
then you would be welcome to contact our office or email us.
When should we do the Award?
You can start the Award at any time in the school year. You may choose to run the programme over
a half-term (or longer) and embed it into your PSHE, RE and Citizenship curriculums, or alternatively
run it as an extra-curricular activity over a longer period of time.
Naturally the summer term provides a nice window of opportunity for students to enjoy getting out
and about and involved in more of the community action aspects of the award. For year 6 pupils the
pressure is also off in the final half-term since they will have completed their SATs. The Award is
completely flexible though with enough resources written for you to consider running it for half a
term, a full term or possibly even longer!
How do I get started?
Getting started couldn’t simpler. All you need to do is get in touch with us and let us
know how many pupils you would like to run the award with – a whole class or two is
ideal in order to gain the most out of the programme. We will then issue you an
invoice for the award and once this has been paid we’ll set you up with an account via
our website to download the resources. You’ll also receive Archie Scrap Books and
Pencils for each pupil completing the Award. It is advisable to download the resources at least half a
term before you plan to start so you can have a good look at the materials and begin thinking
through the community action aspect of the Award.
KS2 Curriculum links
There are many cross curricular links to be found in the Young Leaders Award and the KS2 award has
been written and mapped out against the learning outcomes for Citizenship, Personal Social Health
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Education and some aspects of Religious Education. The tables below provide you with more details
on this and the following paragraph sum up the majority of these links.
Through the Young Leaders Award pupils learn about themselves as growing and changing
individuals with their own experience and ideas, and as members of their communities. Through
Archie’s various challenges they are encouraged to become more mature, independent and self-
confident as well as learning about the wider world and the many communities within it. They
explore a number of people of faith who have made a significant difference in the world through
their faith and leadership and reflect on what it means to be a good leader. They identify leadership
skills that they already show and those they would like to grow in, in turn encouraging their own
sense of personal identity and setting themselves goals. They develop their own sense of social
justice and moral responsibility as they explore the community action projects they will be involved
in and begin to understand that their own choices and behaviour can affect local, national and global
issues. Inspired by those who have gone before them the pupils begin to put their beliefs, values
and skills into action through the active citizenship aspect of the award. They learn to take part more
fully in school and community activities through Archie’s various challenges, and as a result grow in
confidence and are able to take more responsibility individually and as a group.
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Curriculum Links* Young Leaders Award
Explanatory notes
Citizenship and PSHE Developing confidence and responsibility ✓ Pupils explore various aspects of community (School, Local, National and Global) and reflect on
issues which affect themselves and society. They begin to recognise their own sense of worth through the Personal Top Trump cards, identifying their own and other’s leadership skills and setting themselves goals for how they would like to grow personally. Through Archie’s challenges the pupils are encouraged to gather information, look for help, make responsible choices and take action to be the change they want to see.
Preparing to play and active role as citizens ✓ Pupils are encouraged to research, discuss and debate topical issues, problems and events as they explore a number of charities who are working to help change society for the better. Through Archie’s various challenges the pupils learn that there are different responsibilities, rights and duties at home, in school and in the community. As they identify what their local community action project will be they may need to resolve differences by looking for alternatives, making decisions and explaining decisions. During lessons the pupils learn what democracy and justice is and research a number of charities who support this locally, nationally and globally. Through this they recognise the vital role that these voluntary and community organisations play and how we can play a role in being active citizens. Through the Global Community lesson the pupils learn more about justice and begin to understand that resources can be allocated in different ways and that these economic choices affect individuals, communities and the sustainability of the environment.
Developing good relationships and respecting difference
✓ As the pupils get involved in their local community they begin to care for other people’s feelings and try to see things from their point of view. They are challenged to think about the lives of people living in other places and times as they explore projects from local and national charities, and they compare their own lives to those of families living and working in Calcutta during the Global Community lesson.
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Curriculum Links* Young Leaders Award
Explanatory notes
Religious Education Beliefs, teachings and sources ✓ Through studying a number of people of faith who have helped change the world for the better,
pupils reflect on how belief informs a person’s perspective on life and how it can inspire them to action. The pupils then apply these beliefs and teachings to the subject of leadership, giving their own analysis of what it means to be a good leader.
Variety, difference and relationship ✓ As the students begin to think about what they can do to help change their own community through Archie’s challenges, social action projects develop which underpin a commitment to respect and inclusion and may help pupils understand the differences and similarities between faiths, values and beliefs.
Values and commitments ✓ As the pupils study various people of faith from Wilberforce to Elizabeth Fry, The Archbishop of York to Ricardo Kaka, they consider how a person’s beliefs can change the world for the better and how someone’s faith can inspire them to action. They discover how moral values and a sense of obligation can come from faith and experience, and as they complete Archie’s challenges they develop their own values and begin to make informed, rational and imaginative choices about the ways in which they will live their lives. Furthermore, the pupils become ambassadors for local charities and inevitably investigate moral and ethical issues relating to their work, in turn applying these issues of justice to their own thoughts and decisions. Pupils reflect on their learning and develop a healthy sense of identity, especially through the Personal Top Trumps challenge, identifying their own beliefs and leadership skills based on the exploration of the various people of faith.
*We understand that the National Curriculum is currently under review though for the time being have mapped the Award out against the existing key concepts to help
you see how the award can support you in your schools’ learning curriculum.
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KS2 Costs
We’ve tried to keep the cost of this Award low to enable all schools to take part. The table below
outlines the finer details, including everything you get in the resource when you sign up. It’s
important to point out that we are a not-for-profit organisation and our Young Leaders Award
support our Grant Making programme - giving money away to projects working with children and
young people in deprived areas across the north of England. By signing up to our awards you will be
impacting the lives of young people across the north, as well as benefitting your own pupils and
community through the high quality teaching resources and active citizenship involved in the
programme.
Cost*
Resources included Merchandise (optional)
£10 per pupil 6 Complete lesson Packs – including lesson plans, learning objectives, PowerPoint’s, videos, sound files, worksheets, Archie’s Challenges and Grid, Community Project guidance notes and Archie Images.
DVD Assembly Pack – including
Archie DVD, Good Samaritan DVD, Theme song and PowerPoints.
Archie Scrap books and pencils
Award Badges and certificates
Support from Youth Trust and new
resources in future years.
YLA Hoodies YLA Pens YLA Note Pads (See prices on our website)
*Please note that this is currently a guide price as we are still gathering cost information on various aspects of
the Award. The final cost, which we hope to be around this figure, will be released in January 2013.
We hope that you would choose to run the Award for many years and embed it into the life of your
school. If this was the case then we would be keen to reduce the cost for you, and we may even be
able to do this in the second or third year of you running the Award. However, in order for the
Award to still support our grant making programme we would be keen for you to do some
fundraising for us – could you make us your charity to support for the year? Could you hold some
events or non-school uniform days for us? You’ll see in the resource that Archie’s challenge in lesson
3 invites the pupils to become Ambassadors for some charities to raise awareness and financial
support for their work. One of these charities is The Archbishop of York Youth Trust and we would
ask that you always include us in this lesson and in Archie’s challenge, so that our Awards continue
to grow the vital work of our grant making programme.
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Sample Lesson Plan
Teacher: Date: Session: KS2 Lesson 1
Group: Year 5/6 Title: An Introduction to the KS2 Award
Learning Objective: - To introduce the award and explore what ‘leadership’ means - To think about how we can ‘be the change we want to see’ in our schools and communities.
Learning Outcomes: - Pupils will be able to explain various aspects of Leadership and identify key leadership skills through
the teamwork challenges, mind maps and role play activities. - Pupils will be able to apply some of these leadership skills to their own life as they begin to work
through Archie’s Challenge Trail.
Timings Learning Activities Resources
10 mins Introduction Welcome to the Young Leaders Award. Over this project we are all going to step up and be the change we want to see in our schools and communities. Archie Bishop will be there to help us along the way and he will be setting us a number of challenging tasks throughout the weeks ahead. Now ask the following question: If you could change anything in the world what would you change? Watch the vox pops video to see what the general public say and then get each student to share one thing they would like to see change….
‘Be the change video’
5 mins Starter: The great cup challenge Often ‘being the change you want to see’ involves taking the initiative and showing leadership skills. This next game focuses on some of these skills. Divide the class into teams of 4/5 and send them to one of the set out tables. On the table they will find an instruction card, some plastic cups laid across the table and an elastic band contraption. The pupils will have 3 minutes to try and complete the challenge. Once the time is up ask for some feedback from a couple of groups – how did they find the task and what skills were needed in order to be successful?
Cups / Elastic bands / Instruction cards / timer tool on ppt
5 mins Task 1: What is leadership? Back in their groups get the pupils to thought shower what comes to mind when they think about leadership. What words would they use to describe leadership? Suggest some words to help them get started if necessary: Teamwork, confidence, listening skills, decision making, public speaking… Ask each group to identify one or two words on their list.
Flip chart paper
10 mins
Task 2: Role play ‘Good Leader v’s Bad Leader’ Using the list created in the previous activity get each group to make a freeze frame scenario showing an example of good leadership. ( 2 minutes) Ask the teachers to guess what area of leadership is being displayed.
Camera
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Now do the same again but this time giving an example of bad leadership through your freeze frame. ( 2 minute) Ask the teachers to guess what area of leadership is being displayed. Why not take a snap shot of each freeze frame and add it to your YLA display board or class book?
15 mins Archie’s Challenge Throughout this Award Archie is going to challenge us to ‘be the change we want to see’ through making a difference in the lives of those around us. Every lesson he’ll issue us with a class challenge which will be about serving our community in some way. Useful link: refer back to assembly and the story of the Good Samaritan – being the change you want to see involves ‘loving your neighbour as yourself’. At the end of the Award he will set us the challenge of serving our local community through a community action project, and then throughout the award you will each need to complete Archie’s challenge Trail and do lots of things that will help you to make a difference (use power point to help explain this). There is no class challenge in this opening lesson but the pupils will need to look at Archie’s Challenge Trail and start plotting their way through it. Introduce the challenge grid and explain that the pupils will need to complete a total of 5 challenges (1 per week) including one which must be of their own initiative. Get the pupils to plot their steps through the challenge trail…which ones will you choose and what ideas can you come up with for your own challenge? Hand out the scrap books which accompany Archie’s challenge trail and get the pupils to begin personalising these.
Archie’s Challenge Trail Paper Scrap Books
5 mins
Plenary Pairs: ‘Step up and step out’ How are you going to step up and step out this week? Share two of the personal challenges you are planning to do from Archie’s Challenge trail with the person next to you. Get your partner to identify the leadership skills you will need in order to complete these tasks. Swap round and repeat this activity again. If time, get a few pupils to share their challenge ideas and the leadership skills they will need to show.
Differentiation: Open ended questions used to enable pupils to engage with the lesson content at their own level (differentiation by outcome). Archie’s Challenge Trail has a great variety of challenges at varying levels making it achievable for all.
Assessment of Impact: Pupils to act out good leader/bad leader freeze frames following the mind map study into leadership. Pupils plot their own way through the challenge grid and identify the leadership skills they will need in order to complete the challenges.
Resources: PowerPoint on USB, Clicker, cups, elastic bands, instruction cards, flip chart paper, camera, Archie’s challenge grid, paper, footprint cards.
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Follow on Activities: Personalise your Archie scrap book
SEAL Links: Self-Awareness: Thinking about leadership skills and applying these to relevant life scenarios Managing Feelings: Through the challenging teamwork tasks pupils are encouraged in their communication Motivation: Pupils persist in working together to complete the opening teamwork challenge and also set themselves goals in the challenge trail activity. Social Skills: Working together in the various teamwork tasks the pupils learn to communicate, solve problems and improve their learning experience.
SMSC Links: Spiritual: Reference to the Good Samaritan and the message to ‘love you neighbour as yourself’ informs Archie’s challenges. Moral: The introductory interview video helps pupils to think about some of the problems in the world, many of them moral issues, which people would like to see changed. Social: Learning to cooperate well with others through the various challenges and teamwork tasks.
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The Young Leaders Award and SMSC
In judging the overall effectiveness of a school, inspectors must report on the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development (SMSC) of the pupils. You’ll be pleased to know that the Young Leaders Award helps to fulfil these criteria and can provide your school with many examples of student’s personal development as well as increased community cohesion through positive experiences and opportunities. The table below provides more detail on each area of SMSC and how the Young Leaders Award supports this.
Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development
Ofsted Key Criteria Pupils’ development is shown by their…
Young Leaders Award
SPIRITUAL
Beliefs, religious or otherwise, which inform their perspective on life and their interest in and respect for different people’s feeling and values Sense of enjoyment and fascination in learning about themselves, others and the world around them, including the intangible Use of imagination and creativity in their learning Willingness to reflect on their experiences
Through studying a number of people of faith who have helped change the world for the better, pupils reflect on how belief informs a person’s perspective on life and how it can inspire them to action. Students continually learn about themselves through the award, identifying strengths and weaknesses and increasing their personal development as they grow in leadership skills through Archie’s challenges. Pupils learn about their local community and the world around them and are encouraged to be creative and imaginative in the ways in which they complete Archie’s challenges – thinking about how they can serve their community and bring about change for the better. Through their evidence scrap book the students reflect on their experiences, in particular the active citizenship aspect of the award.
MORAL
Ability to recognise the difference between right and wrong and the readiness to apply this understanding in their own lives Understanding the consequences of their actions Interest in investigating and offering reasoned views about moral and ethical issues
Through researching a number of people of faith and charitable organisations who stand up against injustice in the world, students learn about issues of right and wrong and are able to think about this in relation to their own lives. Furthermore, the pupils become ambassadors for local charities and inevitably investigate moral and ethical issues relating to their work, in turn applying these issues of justice to their own thoughts and decisions. Through Archie’s challenges the pupils learn to work in teams, dealing with any mistakes and understanding the consequences of their actions.
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SOCIAL
Use of a range of social skills in different contexts, including working and socialising with pupils from different religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds Willingness to participate in a variety of social settings, cooperating well with others and being able to resolve conflicts effectively Interest in, and understanding of, the way communities and societies function at a variety of levels
As schools and students take on the community action projects involved in the award, opportunities can arise for them to work with people and pupils from different religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Students learn to cooperate well with others and come up with ideas for serving the various communities in their local area. The award explores the varying levels of community in our lives and includes case studies and practical tasks, through Archie’s challenges, relating to each one. Throughout the award the pupils are involved in community projects which function on a school, local, national and even international level, to help bring about change for the better.
CULTURAL
Understanding and appreciation of the wide range of cultural influences that have shaped their own heritage Willingness to participate in, and respond to, for example, artistic, musical, sporting, mathematical, technological, scientific and cultural opportunities Interest in exploring, understanding of, and respect for cultural diversity and the extent to which they understand, accept, respect and celebrate diversity, as shown by their attitudes towards different religious, ethnic and socio-economic groups in the local, national and global communities.
Due to the wide range of community opportunities involved in the awards, students may find themselves participating in various cultural opportunities as their school looks to serve their local area. The KS2 award focuses on exploring and understanding community at a local, national and international level and encourages students to engage in community action projects. As they do this they celebrate diversity in the way they serve people from different religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.
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The Young Leaders Award and SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning)
Social and emotional aspects of learning are the underpinning qualities and skills that help us to manage life and learning effectively. They underlie almost every aspect of our lives and enable us to get on with other people and be responsible citizens. The Young Leaders Award resource provides opportunities for schools to focus on the five social and emotional aspects of learning and as a result effectively contribute to the PSHE and Citizenship curriculum.
Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning
Guidelines Young Leaders Award
SELF- AWARENESS
Knowing myself and understanding how I think and feel. When we can identify and describe our beliefs, values, and feeling, and feel good about ourselves, our strengths and our limitations, we can learn more effectively and engage in positive interactions with others.
Pupils are encouraged to think about themselves including their personality, attitudes and values. They identify their strengths and take note of leadership skills which they would like to grow in, having been inspired by people who have changed the world for the better. Through Archie’s challenges the pupils engage in positive interactions with others, serving the local community to make a difference in people’s lives.
MANAGING FEELINGS
When we have strategies for expressing our feelings in a positive way and for helping us to cope with difficult feelings and feel more positive and comfortable, we can concentrate better, behave more appropriately, make better relationships, and work more cooperatively and productively with those around us.
Through Archie’s challenges and the various teamwork tasks the pupils are encouraged in their communication skills, enabling them to make better relationships and work more cooperatively and productively with those around them.
MOTIVATION
Working towards goals, and being more persistent, resilient and optimistic. When we can set ourselves goals, work out effective strategies for reaching those goals, and respond effectively to setbacks and difficulties, we can approach learning situations in a positive way and maximize our ability to achieve our potential.
From start to finish this award provides the students with a number of goals to work towards that enable them to grow in leadership skills whilst at the same time serving others. Each week Archie delivers a different class challenge which together as group they discuss and determine strategies to help them achieve this. Furthermore, Archie’s Personal Challenge Trail gives each individual the opportunity to set goals each week, breaking down long term goals into small, achievable steps. Pupils naturally change through the community action projects and learn how to bring about positive change in the lives of others. As the pupils grow in leadership through the various tasks they evaluate and review their experiences through Archie’s Scrap Book and through this begin to take more responsibility for their lives.
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EMPATHY
Understanding others’ thoughts and feelings and valuing and supporting others. When we can understand, respect, and value other people’s beliefs, values, and feelings, we can be more effective in making relationships, working with, and learning from, people from diverse backgrounds.
Through observing the local community and researching a number of charities who are helping to change communities nationally and globally, pupils learn about others and begin to understand people’s beliefs, values and feelings, seeing the world from another person’s point of view. Pupils recognise and take account of their feelings of empathy and act on them, through the community projects, by considering the needs and feelings of others.
SOCIAL SKILLS
Building and maintaining relationships and solving problems, including interpersonal ones. When we have strategies for forming and maintaining relationships, and for solving problems and conflicts with other people, we have the skills that can help us achieve all of these learning outcomes, for example by reducing negative feelings and distraction while in learning situations, and using our interactions with others as an important way of improving our learning experience.
Pupils learn to communicate effectively with others through Archie’s challenges, including peers and people in the community. Through the various challenges and teamwork tasks the pupils learn to work well in groups, taking on different roles and cooperating with others in order to achieve a joint outcome. As the pupils investigate various levels of community they understand their rights and responsibilities as an individual who belongs to many different social groups, and they are continually encouraged to think about how they can be involved in serving others and changing their communities for the better.
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Next Steps It’s really easy to sign up to the Young Leaders Award and begin running it in your school. All the lesson plans, resources and guidelines are available for each key stage and more information can be found on our website. As soon as you sign up for the award and payment is received we’ll provide you with access to all the relevant resources. If you are ready to sign up now then the next step is to contact us in one of the following ways:
It may be that you still have some questions about the programme and would prefer a face to face conversation before you sign up. We are more than happy to come and visit you in your school, where possible, to chat more about the award and show you some of the resources that accompany the programme. If you would like a visit then please email or call us and we’ll try and accommodate you. Signing up In order to sign up to the award we will need to know the following information:
Once we have this information we will issue you with an invoice and as soon as we have received payment we’ll set you up with an account via our website to give you access to the relevant resources and materials. You will then receive an email with the link address for the secure downloads section of our website (see screen shot below) as well as a unique password in order to access your purchased resources.
Website Enquiry Form: http://archbishopofyorkyouthtrust.co.uk/?page_id=787 Email: [email protected] Phone: 01904 707021
How many students will be taking the award? How you will be running the programme (through lessons, as an extra-curricular club, in chaplaincy sessions etc…)? When do you plan to start? How would you prefer to pay (all at once, spread the cost over the year etc…)?
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