Student Leadership

At Broadlands School, all students from Year 5 are provided with many opportunities to serve their school as a community through specific leadership responsibilities which they apply for at the beginning of each year.

 

Our 2026 Head of Schools

Kruden Wills (left) and Jade O’Reilly (right).

 

• Our Year 6 Heads of School lead the school throughout the year in both formal and informal ways. We send our Heads of School and in some years, other senior leaders to Hillary Outdoors (formerly known as the Outdoor Pursuits Centre of NZ or OPC) each year.

 

 

Our 2026 Head of Houses

River Leonard (Tauhara), Israel Wills (Tongariro), Emma Snowden (Ruapehu), Grace Cowan (Ngauruhoe),

John Stoddart (Tauhara), Lucy Martelli (Tongariro), Bradyn Fitzgerald (Ruapehu) and Niko Nottage (Ngauruhoe).

• Our eight Heads of Houses lead our school Houses which are Ngauruhoe, Ruapehu, Tauhara and Tongariro and who lead and organise many of the House teams for the House competitions held throughout the year. The Heads of Houses are appointed from the Year 6 level. Through rotation, Heads of Houses organise and run our weekly school assembly which are held in the Learning Centre.

 

 

Our 2026 Kaea/Cultural Leaders

Jade Werahiko (Senior) and Keana Ohlson (Senior)

Reilly Fitzgerald (Junior) and Florence Halliday (Junior)

• Our Senior and Junior Kapa Haka Performance Groups are lead by four Kaea / Cultural Leaders (two tane and two wahine) which perform annually at various school events including the Cluster Cultural Festival and Grandparents’ and Friends’ Day and the annual Prize Giving. The Kapa Haka Performance Groups are tutored weekly.

 

 

Our 2026 Sports Leaders

Flynn Shaw and Declyn Te Awhe-McAsey

• Our Sports Leaders are responsible for running sports games and activities during lunch breaks and leading our sports monitors. Sports games/activites are a great way for our junior and senior students to collaborate and for our senior students to be Tuakana Teina.

 

 

Our 2026 Head Librarian

Lucy Martelli

• Our Head Librarian is repsonsible for assisting our school Librarian (Becky Flannery) in the school library. They are also a leader and provide guidance for our school student Librarians who help in the school library at lunchtimes and classroom library sessions.

 

 

Our 2026 Jump Jam Leader

Emma Snowden

• Our Jump Jam Leader runs and leads our weekly Jump Jam sessions as a school. They help our Jump Jammers (monitors) to learn the moves and practice each song ready to lead for our students.

 

 

Monitors

• Monitors undertake a wide variety of responsibilities around the school including iPad/Notebook Monitors, Bus Monitors, Teina Monitors, Librarians, Sport BOP Dynamo Leaders, PE Monitors, Office Assistants,  EnviroGroup and Jump Jam KidzAerobix. Within classes at all levels from Years 1 to 6, teachers will provide students with opportunities to show leadership.