General News
19 March, 2026
Pupil reflections
Pupils in their final year of education at Hopetoun's St Joseph's Primary School recently attended an event on leadership with other local Year Six students at Lake Lascelles.
The day was organised by Country Education Partnership.
Attendees Fletcher, Jagger and Lola, from the Hopetoun School compiled this event summary.
On Friday, February 27, we went to the Stick Shed at Lake Lascelles with other Year 6 students from the cluster to attend a Leadership Day run by Country Education Partnership (CEP).
We started the day by introducing ourselves with a game, then we discussed what we think leadership is, who an example of leadership is to us, what makes them a leader and different types of leadership styles.
We learned that everyone can be a leader, but we all have different styles which include: ideas, designer, action and evaluator.
To help us identify which styles we are good at, we played a game called ‘Humanknot’ to help us see the leadership styles in action.
Finally, we played a couple of games to help us learn about different leadership traits: communication, teamwork, laughter, taking responsibility, forgiveness, trust and ‘getting over it’.
We had a great day; we are grateful for Shane and Morris from CEP and the teachers and staff for running the day and we REALLY enjoyed the food.