Kia ora
Thank you for your email regarding xxx and the Prefect Selection Process which xxxx has
passed on to me. I am responsible for student leadership within the school.
We do see leadership skil s in xxx and that is why we have asked him to be a Peer Leader
for 2025. Unfortunately he was one of a number of students who has missed out on a being
a prefect this year. I think it would be useful to outline the selection process as I believe it is
robust and stand by the choices that we have made for the Prefects for 2025.
The process starts with the application. Each application is read by myself (Assistant
Principal), the Dean of Year 12, the Dean of Senior School and the Dean of Transition. Each
person gives the application a score out of 5. In order to remove any personal influence I
remove the names of al applicants so each person does not know who has written the
application. Fol owing this we have a score out of 20. The second part of the process is the
voting - the vote is open to the Staff and the Y12 Cohort. Each person can nominate up to 25
students whom they support. The results from this are scaled to a score out of 10. At this
point the selection team reconvene and we choose a group of about 90 of the approximately
150 students who apply to be prefects.
The second part of the process is the group interview where students give a one minute
introduction about the role of the prefect and why they should be considered. They are then
observed preparing a short presentation as a group. The students then give their
presentation to the 2 other staff on the selection team. We score this also to give us a ranked
list.
The final part of the process is that the team plus another Assistant Principal reconvene to
make the final selections. During this process we need to consider the balance of the group
and the portfolios that students have chosen. We normal y meet two or three times to finalise
the decisions and it is not something that we take lightly.
I understand that xxx wil feel upset that he has missed out on being a prefect. This is a
total y normal reaction. We understand that in a cohort of approximately 350 there are going
to be many students with leadership potential; this is one of the reasons why we are going to
give more profile to our Peer Leader programme in 2025 so that we can provide more
leadership opportunities for more students.
Ngā mihi nui,