Student Leadership
The Marine Academy Plymouth (MAP) Leadership Award, is our very own initiative which offers students from year 7 all the way through to year 13, the opportunity to develop key attributes relating to the MAP core values. Students will be required to complete a number of tasks each to achieve Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and 6th Form MAP Leader Award status, celebrated at the end of year ceremony.
This initiative will enrich students’ cultural capital and provide all students with the personal attributes needed to succeed on the path to University and into adult life.
Students will follow a mapped path which has ‘pindrops’ marking their way through the Leadership Award, which forms the central pathway of their personal development. Students will be required to compete at least nine tasks each year inside and outside of school to achieve each level status. These will be formally recognised in school, as pindrops are signed off and celebrated by their tutors and year teams.
The MAP Leadership Award provides each student with a ‘passport’, a booklet in which to gather and collate evidence that showcases their personal skills. Whilst many activities are engaging in their own right, the MAP award uses this passport to excite and motivate students in the development of our core values and pindrops are categorized into 4 strands:
Leadership Resilience Aspiration Achievement
These strands enable the MAP award to provide evidence of students’ all round achievements and attributes when applying for universities or jobs as well as promoting the development of many skills that reinforce key learning competencies in the classroom, including being able to:
• Critically self-reflect and assess their own leadership attributes
• Work independently and collaboratively to plan how they will meet each criteria
• Organise and structure their evidence and the presentation of this
• Aspire to complete increasingly demanding leadership opportunities
As students graduate through each year group and award level, tasks will become more rigorous as we expect students to become independent leaders, culminating in the 6th form when students will be expected to complete the Duke of Edinburgh award as well as hold senior positions of responsibility in the student leadership structure in order to get the highest MAP Leadership Award the 6th Form MAP Leader Award.
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