Growing confident leaders

Teaching the skills of leadership and what it means to lead is a critical requirement of any educational institution. Dainfern College’s mission is to produce leaders of great calibre who will make a positive contribution to, and an effective investment into, their families, communities and nations.

Dainfern College is committed to developing students to be effective and moral leaders in a challenging and dynamic environment and have thus developed the ground-breaking Leadership Academy, which gives every High School student the opportunity to develop and grow leadership skills from Grade 8 through a variety of leadership opportunities, event participation, leadership camps and courses and an active Students Representative Council (SRC). This enables senior students to join the Leadership Programme at the end of Grade 11, providing certain criteria are met.

Unlike the traditional ‘prefect’ system, each student on the Leadership Programme is appointed to a specific Leadership Portfolio, and is assigned a personal mentor teacher who guides them and challenges them to grow their leadership skills. At the end of their term of office, the leaders are assessed on their performance and how well they have managed their portfolios. Based on this, top achievers are then rewarded with a Leadership Scroll, Full Colours or Honours for Leadership, ensuring they are recognised for their performance rather than their status.

The students who have committed themselves to serving their school in diverse portfolios for 2019-2020 are led by Heads of School Skye Goss and Matthew Pretorius, and Deputy Heads Jenna Smart and Tivo Ndlovu. Dainfern College is very proud of these young men and women and is committed to guiding and mentoring them as they grow their leadership skills and confidence.

The leaders for the individual portfolios are as follows:

Heads of School: Erin  Tomlinson, Head Girl & Joel Willemse, Head Boy

Deputy Heads of School: Larna Rutsito, Deputy Head Girl & Paballo Morudu, Deputy Head Boy

Heads of House – Griffin: Michela Giannini  & Scott Atwell

Heads of House – Kraken: Claire Fisher & James Thompson

Heads of House – Phoenix: Molly Horan & Ross du Plessis

Heads of Culture –  Catherine de Boucherville &  Abigail Shiller

Heads of Sport: Hannah Wells & Michael Phillips

Chairs of SRC: Isabella Hardy & Riley Venter

Heads of Diversity:  Oluwatamilore Adesanmi & Aryan Pillay

Heads of Academic Affairs: Sunaina Ruplal & Ashalen Munthree

Head of Mentorship: Lilia Geyer (Griffin), Isabella Bonnet (Kraken) & Gemma Young (Phoenix)

Head of Outreach: Emily Kamp

Chair of PR: Blessing Mukaratirwa

Head of Round Square: Yashvika John

Head of Spirit & Tradition: Rutendo Nyandoro

Leaders:

Erin Chislett, Jemma Chislett,  Ross Goosen, Siphelele Makhathini,   Justine Thom & Kylie van der Westhuizen