Leadership Forum

On Friday, the 24th of April, a selection of Fort Street’s House Captains joined the Inner West Council’s Youth Voice Summit along with leadership teams from other Inner West schools. Myself, Sasha Anandh, Matilda Bello-Vijeyarasa, Mia Gray, Naveen Gunasekaran, and Ocean Reznikov attended, along with Mr O’Neill, and we met like-minded people who have a passion to shape the future of our community, by including youth voices. It was definitely a great experience for all of us, as we participated in a lot of activities. One notable activity was called “spaghetti towers”, where we built our teamwork skills by building the tallest structure using only spaghetti, blue tack and tape. We also built our resilience skills after everyone’s towers were destroyed in a so-called “storm” – which was in fact the summit presenters coming through and pushing over everyone’s towers.

We all engaged in deep discussions regarding the voice of a youth and why it is important to take them into account. As House Captains, we will now be able to apply those principles into our leadership and better guide each of our Houses. It was a great experience for all of us, and I am look forward to attending more leadership building events like this.

~Aadit Routray