KS2 Leadership Skills

’Be Rooted in Leadership Skills’ is the second lesson in “Be Rooted”, a series of five free resources aimed at supporting pupils returning to school post-lockdown and helping them stay strong and ‘be rooted’ throughout the inevitable challenges of this autumn term (and beyond!)

There are five 30-minute sessions, consisting of a PowerPoint presentation and Teacher Notes, with options to extend to a full lesson time. The sessions have been designed to help pupils think about their place in the world and the skills, virtues and actions they can draw upon when facing difficulties.

The resources support children to discover that crisis situations don’t need to equal fear, anxiety and that everything is impossible if you can see things from a different perspective and nurture your roots in things that will help you to grow and flourish.

The first session is an introduction then pupils explore how to ‘Be Rooted’ in:-

• Leadership Skills
• Character Muscles
• Community Actions
• Faith Awareness

Each session is designed to open up discussion on the various topics with key questions, real world examples and time for reflection on how pupils might apply the ideas to their own life. The resources are flexible so teachers can choose to do all or some of the activities, or all or some of the sessions, considering what would be most helpful for their pupils. At the end of each session plan are suggestions for further exploration and ideas for a Take Home Activity.

**In this session, ‘Be Rooted in Leadership Skills’ , pupils explore what it means to be a leader and:-

• evaluate which leadership skills are most important when facing challenges
• identify what connects three leaders (Captain Tom, Jacinda Adern and Marcus Rashford) and consider their leadership skills
• identify their own leadership skills and which ones they would like to grow
• investigate and practise what it means to be a leader.**