Welcome from Our School Captains and Junior School Captains
Discover the vision and goals of our student leaders. Our School Captains, Elise and Hamish, along with our Junior School Captains, share what makes SMGS special and how they aim to enrich our school community.
Who Are We?
Snowy Mountains Grammar School—where every student has a voice, where every student is heard.
The 2024 prefect body has representatives to cover each major area of the school: sports, houses, arts, academics, boarding, the Junior School and service learning. We work as a team to support and enrich each area of the school, building connectivity and encouraging younger students to step into the unknown.
For the last term and a half, we have been striving to uphold the legacy left by past student leaders, demonstrating the importance of each student sharing their unique ideas and opinions, sharing their voice, as the culture and community of SMGS has allowed us to.
To us, leadership isn’t just about authority, it’s about fostering a space where students can step up and leave their own legacy. It’s about building rapport between not only our cohort, but all students in the school, creating the culture we strive for, where each student can be an individual without worrying about what others think. It’s not only the prefects who have the power to step up and speak out. Real leadership in our school isn’t simply leading an assembly, but having the courage to be authentic to yourself and creating a space where others can do the same.
This is leadership at SMGS.
Elise and Hamish
School Captains
Leading with Purpose: Insights from Our Junior School Captains
Cleo
What do you love about SMGS?
I love the opportunities that I get at SMGS and how the Junior School students are so respectful to each other.
What are the main goals of the JS Leadership team this year and how do you hope to achieve them?
We would like to work on building connections with the younger students and do things like Friday afternoon watering of the garden as well as reading to the younger students at Read Aloud Wednesday. I would also like to support the SRC team by helping with lunchtime activities such as badminton.
Yume
What do you love about SMGS?
SMGS is a caring and wonderful school. The thing I love the most about SMGS is the teachers give us many opportunities to learn new things. For example, we are learning about technology for the future. Our school also values CARE—Courage, Authenticity, Respect and Empathy.
What are the main goals of the JS Leadership team this year and how do you hope to achieve them?
We would like to make our school an even better place and also encourage students to try all of the opportunities we are given, even if that is just entering an extra race at the carnival for more points.
Sergio
What do you love about SMGS?
I love SMGS because the teachers are so nice and everyone feels included. I can help with that by making sure we have an inclusive playground.
What are the main goals of the JS Leadership team this year and how do you hope to achieve them?
We want to support the SRC team to start a house point system where you can gain points for things other than sporting events, such as academics, positive and respectful behaviour, playing an instrument at assembly, public speaking, helping younger children or service learning.