Student Enrichment

Sixth Form Leadership Opportunities

At Cromwell Community College we believe that students should be given a wide range of opportunities to develop and practice leadership skills in preparation for life beyond school. 

We provide many opportunities as part of our student voice provision which has a big impact on improving the quality of teaching and learning and allows pupils to voice their opinions as to how they would like to see the college move forward.

There are many more leadership opportunities, and we are proud of the way that our students embrace the challenge of the roles they take on and by the way they represent their school, both in college and in the local community.

Anybody can apply for the student leadership roles, and we are usually spoilt for choice.

The sixth form leadership structure is set out below:

Head Students 

3 x Head Students in Year 13

Confidence Council Leader

Respect Council Leader

Success Council Leader

Roles

• Organise School council sessions with the other leaders linked to a specific year group
• Run one of either the Confidence, Respect or Success Council
• Complete student voice with different year groups
• Meet half termly with SLT
• Partake in assemblies
• Input into the Cambridgeshire student forum 

Senior Subject Ambassadors 

1 x Sixth Former to represent each subject area

Roles

• Become a subject specialist for a specific subject in KS3/4
• Volunteer to work with students either in lessons or on a one to one, offering subject specific guidance
• Discussion of successful study skills and retrieval ideas with lower school delivering assemblies
• Meet with Middle Leaders in different subjects to discuss pupil feedback

Senior House Captain Leadership / Junior House Captain Leadership

4 x Sixth Formers in Year 13 / 4 x Sixth Formers in Year 12

Roles:

• Meet with enrichment lead and learning hub manager to discuss house competitions
• Inspire, motivate and lead
• Ensure all houses have full representation in all competitions

Wellbeing Mentors

As many as offer for the actual role

Roles: 

• To attend and participate in mentor training sessions and meetings
• To undertake regular meetings with your mentee during form time; as well as making yourself available to your mentee to contact you during break times as the need arises
• To support your mentee with social and mental health concerns, helping identify issues and offering guidance
• To support your mentee where relevant, with improving literacy, numeracy and other subjects
• Seeking help from staff members, for yourself and your mentee where required
• Sharing concerns about your mentee or other pupils with relevant staff members
• To act as a role model to others in the college
• To organise the lower school mentors

Anti-Bullying committee

1 x Sixth Form leader

Roles: 

• To attend and participate in half termly meetings
• Support younger mentees
• Sharing concerns about students with relevant staff members
• To act as a role model to others in the college
• To organise the lower school committee members

Reading Mentors

As many as offer for the actual role

Roles: 

• To attend and participate in reading mentor training sessions and meetings
• To undertake regular meetings with your mentee during the allotted times
• To support your mentee with reading and vocabulary development through a range of strategies
• Seek help from staff members, for yourself and your mentee where required
• Share concerns about your mentee or other pupils with relevant staff members
• To act as a role model for reading to others in the College

 Personal Development Programme

At Cromwell we aim to make our Personal Development (PD) curriculum vibrant by providing a number of outside speakers, gaining hands on life skills and fundraising. There are also a variety of trips for both information and guidance and for fun.

Below is the outline of activities in Year 12 which take place during PD sessions: 

We have additional speakers coming into the college to speak to our post 16 students on important issues such as, voting and how to register, and the National Citizenship Scheme.

We also offer educational trips and visits to various destinations:

• The Houses of Parliament and the London Eye
• Lessons from Auschwitz - Poland
• European Visit
• University Open Day
• Alton Towers

In Year 13 our focus from September to December is UCAS, apprenticeships, CV writing and interview skills.

From January onwards we want each of our Year 13 students to have a very specific mentoring session. This means the personal development slot is used for academic mentoring sessions on a one to one basis. This includes discussion around study skills, attendance, future dreams and current performance.