New generation of leaders at Globeducate 2022 student leadership summit

The bespoke, annual Globeducate student leadership summit for students took place over three days, 4^th-6^th October, at Stonar School, England and challenged the thinking and leadership styles of more than 40 students. The event, led by Head of Sixth Form at Stonar School, Charlotte Bennett, proved very popular with the 28 students attending and more online.

Two head pupils, IBDP or A-Level students, from each K12 Globeducate school attended the residential event, coming from Canada, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, and they were joined online by students from five schools including The Indian Public School Coimbatore. It was a diverse, international group of students all working together in English and coming away with new understandings of themselves, skills and knowledge about how to become the best leaders possible, and with new friends and goals.

Students arrived at Stonar, checked in with their host families and had a welcome dinner in Bath. The first day was a full day of leadership workshop activities with Farren Drury MBE and Tony Reilly OBE, followed by a social with bingo and a quiz. On the second day, students explored the Belbin leadership characteristics and worked on a group task before a lively session of Etiquette training to prepare them for networking and formal events in the future – some of these skills were put into practice at a formal dinner at the school.  The final day saw some entertaining team-building activities involving blindfolds, 3D shape puzzles and a great deal of laughter as students bonded over their different challenges.

The final day involved team presentations about iconic leaders to BBC journalist Lizzie Powell, who fed back on presentation skills before the group moved to an evening social.

We would like to share with you a quote of a student from our sister school in Vigo. Leyre, a Head Student at O Castro British International School reflects upon the valuable life lessons she learnt while at Stonar: “the notion I had of what made a leader a leader completely evolved throughout my experience at Stonar as I discovered the many different types of leadership that existed, and how I fitted into multiple categories. Thanks to the event, I now place a newfound emphasis on an optimized functioning of the team to guarantee an efficient level of work, and recognize that thinking collectively and coming up with ideas in a group is paramount for success. I have also acquired new skills that have improved the way I tackle and think up solutions to different problems, which will not only help me at an holistic level, but also at an academic level. The international aspect of the summit made me step out of my comfort zone due to being confronted with diverse manners of thinking, and I now find myself more at ease communicating with new people. In brief, the experience was of extraordinary use to me, and I truly believe that I have become a better leader, and a better person, because of it.”

 

We look forward to seeing our CBIS students shine in these challenging and enriching Globeducate events.