Leadership Conference for Primary School students
Last Friday, our Student Leaders had the opportunity to attend a full-day conference on leadership for primary school students. It was very insightful, with a wonderful array of guest speakers. Leading the Way…
Vendredi dernier, nos capitaines d’école ont eu la chance de participer à une conférence sur le leadership pour les élèves du primaire. Ce fut une journée instructive, avec une belle brochette de conférenciers invités. Mener la voie…
Hear it from the kids...
by Marc P
My favourite guest speaker is Nick Hudson, the Founder of the "Push Up Challenge". He is inspiring because his life is very eventful, just like mine and many others. He faced many problems, from hackers threatening to shut down his website, to getting a part of his heart replaced with a part of a cow after a coffee accident. In other words, he is not fully human. But even then, he pushed through the odds. He continued his career as the core of the Push Up Challenge. He couldn't run, swim, or exercise at all for 2 months of his surgery. My lesson from Nick is that, even when you've had a major event in life, or lost something or someone important, whatever you're fighting for, whether it's a person, or your Netflix account, you only stop when IT does. Thank you.
By Toshaani H
My favourite guest speaker was Jacqui Bell who is the youngest person on the planet to run an ultra marathon on all of the seven continents. She made history when she was just 24 years old and ran over 1750km in only 5 days! What makes Jacqui Bell even more inspiring is that she didn't just run to get first place, but she ran to be fit mentally to manage her anxiety. Her most powerful quote is: “You can go fast alone… but you can go far together." At the conference, she said teamwork and support from others help us achieve bigger goals. Jacqui encouraged us to always harness the power of choice and keep showing up even when things get tough. She is very inspiring and shows leadership because she keeps pushing herself to be the best way she can be and encourages us to do the same.
By Jake W
My favorite guest speaker was Catherine Lang'aia, she is the actor for the live action Moana she is very inspiring because she is like me, she only went for the audition after her mum begged her to go for it like I only do stuff after a while of persuading. The leadership skill she showed was while she was in America filming she was very homesick and wanted to go home but she was determined to finish filming so she kept filming and finished the movie also she got a lot of hate because she wasn't the actor some people wanted to be moana but she didn't listen and kept on working hard and then it all worked out.
