ASSET Alumni
What is the ASSET Alumni Young Leader Programme?
Year 7 pupils who left an ASSET School in Summer 2023 were 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.
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
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