25th October 2025
Keith Grammar School
It was a great pleasure and honour to be a guest speaker at Keith Grammar School last week at the launch of the Leadership Academy for prefects.
It’s the brainchild and truly inspired initiative of Keith Grammar School and Milnes High School. The pilot programme is being monitored by other schools across the area who have expressed interest in rolling it out in future years.
Ten senior pupil leaders and prefects from Keith Grammar School and ten from Milnes High School attended the inaugural session. I was invited to be the first guest speaker and gave a top-line Vision and framework for good modern-day leadership, incorporating the growing importance and need for leaders with greater Emotional Intelligence. For those of you who know me, this is one of my main missions!
Other sessions focused on teamwork, with a lively team challenge as well as communication and public speaking. We also enjoyed lovely hospitality from the Home-economics department who put on an impressive spread.
A big thank you to all at KGS and Milnes High school, for the opportunity to be part of your exciting Leadership Academy and best of luck to all the team and the pupils involved. With the team of inspirational depute-head’s I met, I know the Leadership Academy will be a great success and provide a strong foundation for great leaders of the future.
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