SIXTH form leaders have been chosen to represent their peers as official ambassadors for their school.
Following a re-branding of the former Northallerton School and Sixth Form College Student Council, 12 A-level students have been appointed to the newly formed Student Leadership Team.
Liaising with pupils from Years 8 to 13, the new SLT will oversee six student-led working groups including sports, charity, digital media, recruitment, learning and mentoring and performing arts, co-ordinating a variety of school events within each area.
Science teacher and SLT staff link Tom Bunn said: “Our previous student council has been re-launched to give students back their autonomy, to enable them to re-shape aspects of school life in their own vision.
“Having ownership and the ability to implement their own ideas, will hopefully give our students a much more inclusive and community-based focus.”
The young leaders have already thrown themselves into holding a host of fundraising events including a charity football tournament, a sponsored waxing for Children in Need and a planned Christmas Concert to aid the Yorkshire Ambulance and the school’s own expressive arts department.
Chair of the SLT student Thea Crocker, 17, of Northallerton, said: “It has been quite a responsibility working with staff and former student council members to create a whole new forum.
“And now that the school has come together on the one site it will be a lot easier to involve many more of the younger students in our decision making.”
Head of the charity working group Will Anderson, 17, added: “Northallerton School and Sixth Form College has always placed a large emphasis on raising funds for charity.
“Hopefully this new forum will enable us to do more, bigger and better projects in the future and come together as a team to help lots of good causes.”