Student Leadership News

With the coming of 2025, many student leaders are experiencing change. Changing schools, graduating into university, moving into high school, or changing subjects and routine. With this comes a concoction of unfamiliar social environments, and a fresh set of challenges. Student leadership can feel a whole lot more difficult during times of change. From personal experience moving cities, schools, a...

In this episode of Student Leadership News, Nade, Andy, and Jared discuss the importance of personal moments of kindness and consideration in daily life for leaders! Kicking it off with a unique and funny game of “Guess the Animal Noises”, Andy and Nade battle it off to notice the small details in each sound. You don’t want to miss the discussions and stories that follow talking...

Are you feeling exhausted as a student leader? Losing motivation to keep going? Andy, Jared, and Nade tackle this timely topic in a comedic, insightful, and personal episode of Student Leadership News. After touring the country together providing student leadership conferences, these three have some funny stories to tell. The episode kicks off with a tour tale about Jared’s “camel-styl...

Meet Jared and Levi, our fresh team members that are passionate to share their personal leadership stories and discuss what schools are doing everywhere. Listing their top 3 favourite fruits, you’ll get to know their abnormal selections and a bit about them personally! You’ll then hear about two successful in-school fundraisers from this past month for our Student Leadership News. Levi...

In this episode, Levi and Nadé welcome a new member to the podcasting team! An intense introduction game that had to go into overtime leads us into a huge part of leadership. Being a role model. Discussions relating to personal experience highlights the impact you have as a leader to those around you. This episode will provide you with helpful tips and reminders regarding students looking up to yo...

In this episode, our scrabble game makes a come back with Levi and Andy going head to head. The team start discussion rejection but more specifically to do with pitching or presenting a new idea. This can be challenging for a lot of us, especially when we ourselves are already hesitant with the idea. Everyone shares an instance of rejection they faced at school and what was done after in order she...

Levi, Andy and Nadé team up with a couple of old time favourite podcast hosts to celebrate our 100th episode! After Levi’s beautiful serenading, a segment that has been M.I.A. for a while makes a comeback- Tour Tales. An oldie but a goodie, various stories are shared ranging from near death experiences to $50 fruit boxes.  guests as well as their BLT (Best Leadership Tip) that they carry wit...

During this episode, Levi and Nadé battle it off in a scrabble based game consisting of fast thinking and creativity. After some debating of their questionable answers, the team share a number of different fundraisers that took place at their school. A range of different ideas and categories are explored, leaving you with loads of inspiration for your next school fundraiser!

During this episode, Andy, Levi and Nadé introduce a possible new intro beat for the podcast created by the team themselves! Random acts of kindness encounters are shared and followed by how this flows on at school. Connecting with different year levels can often be frowned upon but the team share their experiences on how it not only benefited themselves but others as well.

To kick off 2023 Andy, Levi and Nadé share a bit about their recent Christmas break and a first encounter with Maggots. The team discuss what they personally found the most difficult about student leadership while reflecting on what was learnt from the experience.

In this episode we start by looking at a few great examples of what student leaders are doing during Mental Health Awareness Month. Then our ‘Best Leadership Tip’ segment is focused on practical ideas for making games successful if you are hoping to use them during your school assemblies. More success stories and tips at www.studentleadership.news

On this episode of the podcast, Jack welcomes a new member of the team to the podcast – Levi! Jack challenges Levi to a round of Leadership Quality Scrabble to see if he can beat Jack’s score, and the two share some of the fantastic ideas they have heard around the country since the last episode of the podcast. If you want to hear you story shared on the podcast or see it on studentlea...

On this episode of the podcast, Andy challenges Jack to the final round of ‘Leadership Quality Scrabble’ for the year as the two head into the final episode before the Christmas break. The boys go into their Top 3 stories from the week, and discuss the fun students have had at their schools while also making an impact in their respective areas! If you want to hear your story shared on...

On this episode of the podcast, Jack challenges Nadé to beat his last score on a game of ‘Leadership Quality Scrabble’ followed by a round of another podcast favourite from a couple weeks ago ‘Would you Rather’. The two discuss their Top 3 stories they’ve heard and seen from schools that range from showing support for students, teachers and creative murals! If you wan...

Nadé challenges Jack to another podcast favourite, ‘Leadership Quality Scrabble’, and the two discuss some great ideas where schools have impacted their wider community that they’ve heard right across the country over the last couple of weeks. If you want your story to be shared on the podcast, or to hear some other great ideas across the country, head to www.studentleadership.ne...

Nadé brings back an old podcast favourite ‘Guess That Leader’ which brings out Jack’s competitive side. The two share unique stories where student leaders tackle serious issues and give back to their local community. If you want the chance to hear your story on the podcast, head to www.studentleadership.news and submit your story to be shared on the website!

This episode, Nadé challenges Jack in a game of ‘Would you Rather’. The two of them discuss and share their Top 3 stories they’ve heard recently, which include Mullets for Mental Health, how a school showed its appreciation for the community after a cyclone as well as a school celebrating Australia’s culture and history in the wider community! If you want to the chance to h...

Jack challenges Nadé to another game of ‘Would you Rather’ where they discuss the possibility of talking to animals. The team take a look at the top 3 stories that we’ve heard recently across the country, from fundraisers to fun interschool sport competitions! If you want your story to be included on Student Leadership News and the podcast, be sure to submit your stories at www.s...

Andy introduces Jack and Nadé to the podcast by playing a game of ‘Would You Rather’ as they channel their inner superhero. We take a look at our top 3 ideas that we’ve heard recently from student leaders, focusing on R U OK?, Buddy programs and the creativity of a student in grade 2! Don’t forget to submit your own stories to be included at www.studentleadership.news

In a quick game of ‘Would You Rather’ we find out Andy’s Olympic dream. We look at our top 3 ideas from the many amazing things student leaders have been doing recently. There is a fair bit of excitement about the ‘Trick Shot Challenge’ idea!  You can always submit your own school success stories to us at www.studentleadership.news

Ronan introduces a new leadership game to the podcast, which backfires when Andy throws it back on him. We  also look at our top 3 ideas from the many things that we have seen student leadership teams achieving lately. All this and more, and don’t forget to submit your stories to be included at www.studentleadership.news

This is the final episode in the series focusing on fundraising ideas for student leaders. Throughout part 1-9 Andy and Ronan focused on suggestions for events, activities and campaigns. In this episode we look at some extra tips to make all of these ideas more effective, regardless of the fundriasing activity that you choose. For more ideas go to www.studentleadership.news This episode is support...

The latest episode sees Andy and Caleb check out some of the final exploits of student leaders as we approach the end of the year around the world, as well as discussing one of the focusses that student leaders for 2021 should be thinking about right now. The great ideas and stories don’t stop all jam-packed into this episode to help you finish 2020 with a bang!

Throughout the Fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan have grouped together categories of ideas for each episode. Some fundraising ideas just didn’t fit into those categories, but were too good to leave out! These are the ideas you will find in this episode. For more ideas go to www.studentleadership.news

Andy and Caleb get into the age-old debate on the correct time of year to bring out your favourite carols as students leaders across the country turn their attention to December and the chance to show remarkable generosity to others. They also reflect on an incredible NAIDOC Week 2020 and look into a creative idea to solve loneliness with the help of plants from a student in Victoria. Guess the Le...