Key Student Life & Leadership Documents:

Leadership: Making Every Voice Count

Student leadership is embedded across Years 7–11, providing opportunities for students to represent their peers, contribute to school decisions and take responsibility for meaningful projects. Our Student Senior Leadership Team (SSLT) helps lead and coordinate the work of our student leadership groups, including:

• Prenton Parliamentarians and Form Leaders – representing student views, contributing to school decisions and developing student-led initiatives.
• Green Team – promoting sustainability, environmental responsibility and community action.
• Team Thrive and Anti-Bullying Ambassadors – championing positive wellbeing, friendships, belonging and a culture of kindness.
• Faith and Culture Champions – celebrating diversity, promoting cultural understanding and supporting cultural events.
• Student Life Leaders – encouraging participation in clubs, enrichment, house activities and wider school life.

Our student leadership groups bring together representatives from Years 7–11, with meetings taking place fortnightly during Week 2 of the school timetable. Led and supported by members of our SSLT, these meetings provide opportunities for students to gather feedback, discuss priorities, plan initiatives and contribute to school improvement.

Our ‘You say, we do!’ approach ensures that student voice leads to meaningful action. Students have influenced decisions including the KS4 Core PE offer, house competitions, charity initiatives and school activities.

We recognise that leadership takes many forms. Our inclusive SSLT recruitment and interview programme is designed to recognise individual strengths and potential, with appropriate adaptations and support available to enable students to demonstrate their abilities.

Clubs: Finding Your Place at Prenton

Our extracurricular programme encourages every student to discover something they enjoy, develop friendships and experience the benefits of taking part.

We offer a wide range of lunchtime and after-school clubs, including sport, creative activities, STEM, music, wellbeing, cultural interests and academic enrichment.

Our #TeamPrenton Clubber’s Guide is updated each half term, providing students and families with information about available activities. The club timetable is also available through Arbor, with attendance recorded using Arbor registers.

We encourage every student to attend at least one club. Our programme includes both half-termly activities and flexible drop-in opportunities, allowing students to explore new interests and find activities that suit them.

Attendance is analysed every half term using Arbor data to monitor participation across year groups and student groups. This identifies both students who are actively involved and those who are not yet attending extracurricular activities.

Information is shared with form tutors, who can speak with students, explore their interests, identify potential barriers and encourage them to try suitable opportunities. This proactive approach helps widen participation and ensures that our clubs programme continues to respond to students’ needs.

Enrichment: Broadening Horizons for Everyone

Alongside our voluntary clubs programme, students benefit from a planned programme of enrichment experiences delivered during the school day.

Our 2026/27 Enrichment Framework provides six two-hour sessions across the academic year, alongside a dedicated Careers in the Curriculum day. This timetabled approach helps ensure that access to enrichment does not depend on a student’s ability to attend activities outside normal school hours.

Each half term focuses on a different theme:

• Half Term 1 – Arts & Culture: Creativity, cultural understanding, self-expression and appreciation of the arts.
• Half Term 2 – Wider Life & Future Skills: Practical skills, independence, wellbeing, enterprise and preparation for everyday life.
• Half Term 3 – Careers-Related Learning: Exploring pathways, developing employability skills and connecting learning with future opportunities.
• Half Term 4 – Civic Engagement: Volunteering, community action, citizenship and making a positive difference.
• Half Term 5 – Nature, Outdoors & Adventure: Environmental awareness, outdoor learning, sustainability and personal challenge.
• Half Term 6 – Sport & Physical Activity: Physical wellbeing, teamwork, resilience and active lifestyles.

Enrichment experiences are designed to be practical, interactive and memorable. Activities may include workshops, creative challenges, collaborative projects, problem-solving, hands-on experiences and opportunities to learn from external organisations and professionals.

The programme is adapted to reflect students’ changing needs as they progress through school. In Years 10 and 11, enrichment is complemented by our Power to Perform and KS4 Future Ready programmes, which provide targeted support with examination preparation, careers education, post-16 pathways and successful transition to the next stage of education or training.

Students are encouraged to reflect on their learning, recognise the skills they have developed and record their experiences through Unifrog. This helps them build a meaningful record of their personal development and prepare for future education, training and employment.

A Culture of Participation

We want every student to feel that Student Life is for them.

Our approach recognises that students have different interests, strengths and needs. Through a combination of timetabled enrichment, voluntary clubs and varied leadership pathways, we provide different ways to participate, contribute and succeed.

Appropriate adaptations, accessible activities and additional encouragement help remove barriers for students who may need support to take part.

Our inclusive approach is reflected in the representation of our 2026/27 Student Senior Leadership Team. Of our 37 student leaders, 32.4% have SEND, 48.6% are eligible for free school meals and 27% have English as an additional language.

We want participation to be an opportunity for everyone, not simply those who are already confident or regularly involved in school activities.

How We Know It Makes a Difference

Evaluation is an important part of our Student Life & Leadership programme. We review participation, student experiences and the breadth of opportunities available to inform future planning.

Our approach includes:

• Arbor club registers and half-termly participation analysis to monitor engagement and identify students who are not yet attending clubs.
• Student voice and fortnightly leadership meetings to gather feedback, identify priorities and involve students in decisions.
• Unifrog records and student reflections to capture enrichment experiences and developing skills.
• Feedback from students, staff and families to help evaluate activities and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Review of our enrichment framework to consider the range, accessibility and quality of experiences provided across the academic year.

We use this information to celebrate participation, respond to emerging needs and continually strengthen our provision.

Our ambition is simple: every student should discover something they enjoy, develop confidence, experience success and know that their contribution matters.

Through Student Life & Leadership, we bring our school vision to life:

Making a positive difference today to achieve a better tomorrow.

Belong. Be Heard. Lead.