CHS students get a chance to work on their leadership skills

Cobar High School’s (CHS) leaders have
had the opportunity to gain new leadership
and communication skills, expand their contact
networks and gain some great ideas on
an excursion last week.
The four students, Joey Neale, Todd Polack,
Sophie Clark and Lexie Traynor and their Student
Representative Council (SRC) coordinator/
teacher, Alex Brown, travelled to Sydney
last week to develop their leadership skills and
meet other students to see how leadership
works in the context of their schools.
“This is the first excursion of its kind for
student leaders at CHS, who benefited personally
from the activities and events that we attended,”
Mrs Brown said.
The group attended the Northern Beaches
Secondary College Freshwater Senior Campus
where they had a tour of the school with the
college’s Year 11 & 12 Leadership Group.
Mrs Brown said the Cobar students gained
an insight into how Northern Beaches promotes
growth, leadership and academics.
The Cobar group also attended the Youth
Leadership Academy Australia (YLAA) conference
at Randwick Racecourse where they
heard from several speakers who elaborated on
leadership, youth empowerment, and how
young (and older) people are making a difference
to society.
“Highlights included meeting OzHarvest
CEO Ronni Kahn, and the CEO and founder of
YLAA Wil Massara, who is 19 years old!” Mrs
Brown said.
As part of the excursion, the group went to an
Escape Room where they worked together
using their problem solving and communication
skills to finish all the puzzles to escape.
“They have gained some fantastic leadership
skills and ideas to bring back and implement
within our own SRC and school community.
“It was wonderful to take this group of fine
young leaders away,” Mrs Brown said.
“They represented CHS and the community
with pride and networked positively with students
from other schools who were shocked to
hear that we travelled 11 hours to get there!”