By Cheryl Jahn

Students learn leadership

May 27, 2024 | 4:06 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Hundreds of students from secondary schools across District 57 are part of a leadership gathering.

“This has been in the district for several years now. It’s kind of been under a revival lately. We’ve expanded the number of students before. It used to be small. There used to be about two students from each high school, and they met with the assistant superintendent and trustees and just designed projects in the district for our schools,” explains Dylan Clifford, Vice Principal at Duchess Park Secondary School. “We’re still doing the same thing now, but we have as many as 25 students involved now. We have students from McKenzie involved to make the drive up once a month to do leadership activities.”

Grade 11 student Naiha Manhas has co-emceeded the event and has been part of the program for a while.

“In Grade Nine, I started off being in the District Student Advisory Council, which is like the leadership of the district mainly” She says the event brings together various different perspectives. “It makes you really think about the student voice in the school and what really needs to be applied because in leadership we all talk amongst each other and a lot of the times we don’t actually articulate to teachers and principals about what needs to be done in the school. And students are the biggest. We run the school, so we need to articulate what we think and how we can help.”

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In the meantime, Clifford has surveyed the students and got 2,400 responses.

“The survey had a variety of questions on it. Everything from how important are cell phones to learning what you like best on your schools is very solution-orientated survey, but we wanted to get it out to students and it was designed by students.”

by Cheryl Jahn

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