ASSET Alumni

What is the ASSET Alumni Young Leader Programme?

Children leaving ASSET schools at the end of year 6 are invited to join our ASSET Alumni programme. Our aim is to invite a group of children across our schools onto the programme each year as they leave primary education, offering them a range of opportunities to develop their leadership skills and community work. 

Many children in ASSET schools will have been involved in student ambassador programmes, youth voice groups or supporting others. The Alumni programme will give them opportunities to  develop this leadership by taking part in youth social action, in activities that help to benefit their local community, and also to shape the way ASSET schools help children learn. We will put together a programme of events and meetings taking place outside school hours that could include:

• Creating a project to improve their local community for others

• Trips and visits to inspiring places and to visit inspiring people that have made positive changes 

• Workshops to look at the way schools prepare children for transition to high school, and then college, university and work

• Creating a social enterprise

Once we are established we hope that the children on the programme will help to shape the kind of activities and campaigns they would like to be involved in.

You can sign up to join here

Why are ASSET doing this? 

We are a trust that specialises in primary schools. We hope that by continuing to work with our children as they move through secondary school and into college, work and university that we can understand better how to prepare them in their early education for what matters to them in their future. We will use their insight to shape our curriculum and the opportunities we provide. We also want to continue to support children in our local communities to shape the world around them. 

What will young people get out of this? 

• Opportunities to develop their team-working and leadership skills

• The opportunity to meet inspiring people and visit inspiring places

• Opportunities to develop their confidence and speaking skills

• Invitations to revisit their primary schools, to help and inspire younger children

• Support to realise their ambitions to make the world a better place

• If they continue on the programme, opportunities for volunteering and work experience in our schools when they are in Year 10 and 11, and at college

• Valuable experiences that they can include in their CVs and college and university applications

• Once they have reached 18 we would like to see young people who have been through the ASSET Alumni programme consider becoming part of the Boards of Governors in our schools

**New** The 2024-25 Cohort

 We are now recruiting for the Summer 2024 cohort. Find out how to join the Alumni programme, and details of the Summer 24 sessions here.

The 2023-24 Cohort

Take a look at what the "Problem Solvers" are up to - our first cohort of Alumni Young Leaders who left their ASSET schools in Summer 2023