Year 6 Monitors 2019

Our Year 6 monitor programme aims to develop leadership skills in our students.  We believe that every student has innate qualities and can build skills that they could use to help serve our school and community in some way.  Monitors help the students and teachers during break times and help monitor the classes at line up time. In addition to this, there are different portfolios that the monitors are responsible for.

Some of the other roles and duties of our monitors include:

• Assembly and Library Monitors: Set up the hall for assemblies and help Mrs M in the library.
• Recycling Monitors: Collect recycling from the classrooms every week.
• Social Responsibility Monitors: Promote social responsibility in the school by visiting the different classes and talking about important issues. This term the Social Responsibility Monitors have been explaining the importance of recycling and teaching the children what we can and can’t recycle in our paper bins.
• Journalist Monitors: Write articles about some exciting things happening at school.

Below is one of the articles our Journalist Monitors wrote about our Leadership inting.

Cool To Be Me – Year 6 Leadership Inting

On Friday the 22nd of February Y6ME and Y6AH gathered in the hall and participated in the Cool To Be Me inting.The grade 6s learned that it is okay to be ourselves and ignore judgmental words.  We were taught to use great qualities such as:

Be a good role model.
Use your role to help one another.
Do no abuse the responsibility of being a monitor.
Leaders are kind, fair and helpful.

The two grade 6 classes participated in multiple different activities on the day. Each activity taught us how to use our strengths to become better leaders in the school. We finished the inting off by creating a toolbox of our personal leadership qualities.

Written by: Ben Van der Westhuizen, Jens Buchwald, Patrick Kessel, Linamandla Moyo and Chloe Ralph

“Every individual is intelligent in a different way. Understanding how we are intelligent allows us to identify when and where we can lead.”

– Quoted from the Cool to be me Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/cooltobemeSA/

Marisa Esterhuizen
Year 6 Teacher

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