Earlier this term our School Captain Oliver Hunt and Vice Captain Emily Stokes interviewed our Junior School Captains Blake Lawson and Sasha Lim about leadership. Below is a snapshot of their conversation and you can read the full interview in the 2024 edition of Factis to be published later this year.
Oliver: ‘So what skills would you say you’ve learned being a Junior School leader?’
Blake: ‘Oh, there’s a lot, a wide variety of skills, but the main one I’d say would be public speaking. The ability to say that everything is going to be OK to help other people in ways that you would do for yourself.’
Emily: ‘And what about you, Sasha?’
Sasha: ‘I agree with Blake. I think the best skills I’ve learnt is communication and collaboration skills. Helping people work together in teams and staying open minded to what everybody thinks.’
Emily: ‘For you both, what does it mean to be a leader in either the Boys’ Junior School and the Girls’ Junior School community?’
Blake: ‘Being a leader is a lot of different things, but it’s being a role model that people can look up to.’
Sasha: ‘In the Girls’ Junior School, I think being a leader is being somebody that people can trust and that people can turn to when they need help.’
Blake Lawson, Boys’ Junior School Captain
Sasha Lim , Girls’ Junior School Captain
