The SLA offers a formal way to champion and celebrate the leadership skills our secondary students develop in and out of school, requiring students to create a portfolio in which they gather and upload evidence to showcase their skills. They grade their work using a self-assessment framework that covers ten core skill sets, grouped into three themes:

Leadership means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. This award recognizes all sorts of different leadership activities, such as school council, writing for the school blog, captain of a sports team, it really doesn’t matter as long as you are displaying the skills listed on the criteria grid below.