Inspire & Equip

Stepping up to lead: The UK’s First GLS Next Gen Student Leadership Conference

As a secondary school teacher, the Year 11 prom was the most rewarding night of the year. Having finished their time at secondary school, the students would arrive dressed in their tuxedos and ball gowns ready to celebrate with their friends. Without their school uniform they would look suddenly more grown up; it was a clear reminder to us as their teachers that these weren’t boys or girls any longer but young men and young women. They had arrived at secondary school aged 11 as children and were leaving it aged 16 on the verge of adulthood, ready to leave the safe and contained environment of school behind and go out and make their own mark on the world.