By Hollie Harris
It’s been said that good leadership is earned every day. Even at a young age, it’s important to recognise this attribute in our future leaders.
Keen to share their select few with our community, Tewantin State School has unveiled its leadership group for 2017. It’s a fine array of Year 6 students who are already putting their best efforts forward at the historic school.
In fact, next week the group will attend a student leadership conference at Lake Kawana Community Centre. To celebrate this, Tewantin Community Bank branch manager, Wayne Hoens, was on hand as a valued sponsor to celebrate the news and wish the 14 new leaders well.
Corrie Connors is principal of Tewantin State School, and said the conference had been designed to enhance the students’ leadership skills.
“Our 2017 leadership group has been given a great opportunity next week, and it will benefit them in so many ways as well as meeting other student leaders from across the coast,” Mrs Connors said.
“Our leaders will work throughout the year on various projects revolving around school improvement and making our school a great place for kids, as well as charitable endeavours to support charities within our community and our region.
“We are fortunate to have sponsorship from Bendigo Bank for some of those projects, including our annual East Timor Shoe Box project.
“I’m very proud of this group of enthusiastic young people who are embracing their opportunity of leadership at Tewantin State School in 2017. It’s going to be a great year ahead,“ Mrs Connors concluded.
