*****LATEST NEWS*****
This year all of our Senior School Leadership programme participants will be working towards creditation for their participation and skills development:
S4 – Youth Achievement Award (Bronze)
S5 – Youth Achievement Award (Silver)
S6 – SQA Leadership qualification (Level 5 or 6)
*****Success at Ayrshire Business Awards October 2012*****
Our business partnership with Ardagh Group through the Ambassadors progamme has been recognised at the Ayrshire Business Awards. Ardagh Group won the Investors in Education Award!!
Ambassadors 2012-13 slide show
Kilwinning Academy Ambassadors programme aims to develop leadership skills and promote personal responsibility. The programme is in its second year and involves fourth and fifth year students. The aims in more detail are shown below:
- Week long leadership-focused residential course with Outward Bound at Loch Eil.
- Participants support our feeder primary schools in preparing the primary 7 students for the transition to secondary school.
- Participants have mentoring support from our local business partners (Ardagh Group , Stellar UK , Kilwinning Sports Club), to help develop aspirations, shape goals and consider opportunities for personal growth.
- Participants take part in an enterprise activity as a service to the school, which supports the sustainability of the Ambassadors programme.
In summary, the learning aims of the Ambassadors programme can be described as follows:
- Take responsibility as a mentor by being a positive role model
- Increase skills in collaboration, including communication, planning and problem-solving
- Develop skills in setting and achieving personal goals
- Develop enterprise skills
- Experience and understand leadership
- Develop and apply the skills of presenting to an audience
Ambassadors August 2012
The movie below is the parent presentation delivered on 24.08.2012 for the 2012/13 Ambassadors programme. Put together by our Ambassadors. Ably led by Mrs Randall and Mr McHarg.
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Ambassadors August 2011
Have a look at the Ambassadors Programme Scrapbook, which tells the story of our August/September 2011 Loch Eil experience in more detail.
A participant’s view of the programme.
Primary Visits
Our Ambassadors have created and are in the process of delivering a presentation to each of our cluster priamry 7 classes about their experiences on our leadership programme and the Outward Bound centre at Loch Eil. You can see the presentation and video by following the links. All of the work has been done by our Ambassadors. This work enables them to meet some of the outcomes as noted above, as well as forging links with our associated primary schools and building further our strong Kilwinning Cluster community spirit!
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