London Borough of Ealing

Ada Lovelace Church of England High School

Gold accredited

TfL Pioneers Challenge Student Leadership

TfL Pioneers Challenge Student Leadership

About this activity

Suitable for all Secondary School Pupils (KS3-KS4)

NB: We’re bringing together all the TfL education programmes, including STARS, under one exciting new umbrella programme called TfL Travel for Life. They will be the same great programmes but with a new name and a new look, easier online process and dedicated support team. STARS for primary schools will be renamed TfL Explorers. STARS for secondary schools will be renamed TfL Pioneers.

Would you like to give your students an opportunity to develop and practise their leadership skills, in preparation for life beyond school? 

TfL Pioneers Challenge Student Leadership Accreditation is awarded by the SSAT (Schools Students and Teachers Network) and is specifically for Secondary school students leading TfL Pioneers Challenge.

SSAT has developed the Student Leadership Accreditation (SLA) to formally recognise your leadership skills, encompassing all activities you deliver, whether in the classroom, across the school, or in the wider community.

How it works

  1. As you progress through TfL Pionners Challenge, your team gathers evidence in the project portfolio to showcase their skills.
  2. At the end of the project, your team completes 10 skills statements, to explain how they have collectively demonstrated each skill, backed up by the evidence.
  3. Finally, you check your statements and evidence against a self-assessment framework to ensure you have met the success criteria!

The ten core skills are grouped into three themes:

·         Developing Myself

·         Contributing to my Community

·         Working with Others

Unlike other awards, the STARS Student Leadership Award is moderated by students’ peers as well as by SSAT (School, Student and Teacher Network) ensuring the process both reinforces and rewards meaningful student leadership.

What you’ll need

·         Up to 12 Student Challenge Leaders

·         A Student Challenge coordinator

·         A member of school staff to oversee and coordinate the Student Challenge Leadership Award (this can be your school’s TfL Travel for Life Champion)

Uses for the STARS Challenge portfolio:

The TfL Pionners Challenge portfolio is an important resource which many students will find useful to retain once they have achieved their TfL Pionners Challenge Student Leadership Accreditation, particularly as part of their ongoing engagement with TfL Travel for Life, and when applying for university, apprenticeships or future jobs,

Activity steps

1
Engage
Participate in TfL Pioneers Challenge
2
Evidence
Gather evidence within your project portfolio as you progress through TfL Pioneers Challenge.
3
Self-Assessment
Check your statements and evidence against a self-assessment framework to ensure you have met the success criteria! See the resource link.
4
Peer moderation
Each student will then be given another students portfolio for assessment.
5
External moderation
Your TfL Pionners Challenge coordinator will collect the portfolios, check that they meet the criteria and send away for external moderation.

Tags

  • Partnership

This activity counts towards:

  • Partnerships

How it helps

  • Pupils self-reflect on their own skills as leaders
  • Work collaboratively to plan and deliver
  • Aspire to take on leadership responsibilities
  • Recognition for students: Bronze Certificate SSAT

Resources

Useful links, templates and case studies to support this activity