Students leading the way

Student Leadership 2018

Student leadership and voice is a priority for Northcote High. This year our student leaders engaged with their peers, the school and broader community through a wide range of opportunties and events. From the vibrant Rainbow Day and International Women's Day celebrations, Sports, Music and Drama events, campaigns to assist homeless and indigenous communities or to raise awareness of social and environmental issues and the Philanthropic Projects at each level, students' energy, leadership and activism was central. Our student leaders also participated in four Captains' Conferences, represented the school at myriad events both internal and external and provided thoughtful input on reviews of uniform, curriculum, facilities and classroom climate. In addition to this, a number of students participated in programs such as the Victorian Young Leaders to China and the Year 10 Future Leaders and Youth for Causes.  

Leadership does not require 'a badge'. However, at each year level there are opportutnities for students to take on a range of formal leadership positions. This year there was strong  interest in these positions, and many high quality applications.  As part of the selection process, students completed a written application and interview, and were asked to reflect upon how their actions as a leader would embody the school values of Achievement, Curiosity, Humanity and Fairness.  Class leaders, our School Captains (see the 'Year 12 Leadership Group' below) and Peer Support Leaders will be selected in 2018.

Congratulations to our 2018 Student Leaders

Year 7 Captains

 to be selected in Term 2

Year 8 Captains

Magnus Mulhall & Sophie Hargreaves

Year 9 Captains

Elspeth Pinnuck & Charli Doyle

Year 10 Captains

Rosie Thyer & Dimitirios Syrbopoulos

Year 11 Captains

Mary Le & Alexei Petroulias Romios

Emily Lane & Ngoc Diep (Jane) Nguyen (Vice Captains)

Year 12 Leadership Group

In order to recognise the leadership capacity and enthusiasm at Year 12, and to support the workload of the final year, this group will work together to lead the Year 12s throughout 2018. The School Captains will be selected from this team early in Term 1. 

Patrick Greene; Eva Jordens; Violet Tolhurst; Nell Morris-Dalton; Xue Yue Chen; Milla Kruse; Esther Bentley; Freya Viney; Issa Chanzi; Mollie McKenzie; Gabriel Duke

Junior Sport & House Captains

Til Exton; Grace Young; Mia Otswald; Claudia Hetherington; Nick Pappas; Connor Lester; Matteo Rossi-Hunt; Finn Andrew-Fraser

Senior Sport Captains

Taysen Wilcox & Alana Namor

Junior Music Captains

Will Leslie & Kitty Robinson

Senior Music Captains

Evie Deasey; Roy Kermode; Ava Leach-Absalom

Peer Support Captains

TBA in Term 1

International program Leadership Group

Vandy  KUY  (Vandy);  Duc Binh VU (Brian); Haeyun EOM (Haeyun); Jiayi LIANG (Christen); Quan HUYNH (Quan); An DO (An)

School of Student Leadership

In 2018 six Year 9 students will spend Term 4 at the Gnurad Gnudidj campus of the School of Student Leadership (also known as the Alpine School). There they will complete a special program designed to develop personal and leadership skills and will plan for a major community project which they implement on their return to Northcote. Again there were outstanding applicants for this program - it was very difficult to select the final six for whom we have been allocated a place. Congratulations to Hannah Bartley, Minna Baxter, Indigo Van der Hoevan, Eamon Coates, Ethan McKenzie and Kai Stewart.