Written by: Andy Clapperton, Head of Learning
At YCIS Pudong we seek to raise globally competent leaders who aspire to, and act for, a better world. We place great value on student leadership, and we are very pleased to announce that Alexandra Saw and Oufan Li have been selected from an exceptionally strong pool of applicants as this year’s Head Prefects. They will be joined by Hayley Chu, Kevin Du, Ann Huang, Mary Liu, Florence Tse, Troy Wu and Elena Yu, and they look set to work as a formidable team of prefects.
And as we seek to develop the role of our student leaders and enable them to maximise their impact, we are also launching a more connected vision for student leadership. That is, we are seeking a more visible and sustainable model for an aspirational, inspirational and action-oriented Student Leadership Team.
Each of the prefects will be responsible for a portfolio, which celebrates and builds upon much of the great work our student leaders have been doing over recent years, bringing them together with clearly structured roles. These portfolios are:
- House Spirit
- Service Learning
- Climate Action
- Learning Leaders
- Student Council
With clearly designated portfolios, our prefects will focus on working towards key goals for their area, developing a project that will have a positive impact on the YCIS community and at the same time help showcase their leadership qualities in university applications. Prefects will also be assigned a teacher coach to be able explore ideas and give pointers to help them problem solve.
We are extremely excited about the potential impact this structure will have and are very much looking forward to seeing our students at the forefront of school events and developments moving forward.
I applied for the role of Head Prefect because I was very interested in leadership opportunities, especially one such as this where I can collaborate with others to bring about change around the school.
I‘m really excited to be a part of the transition into the new prefect/student leadership system, and hope that this will allow us prefects to have more of a presence around the school community. I’m looking forward to seeing how we can spark meaningful changes and events in the future. -Oufan
I applied for the role of head prefect as I wanted to utilise the Prefect platform to enact positive change within our school community and our greater Shanghai community. I believe the Prefect team has a lot of promise and I wanted to use this potential to spearhead some meaningful activities that will create the changes we want to see in the world.
I am excited to work with a group of equally passionate people to sow the seeds for growth through the various projects we will carry out. My hope is that we build a solid and effective platform for future students to use to enact change. – Alex