Case Studies
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A Parent's Perspective
“I’m amazed at how my child has gone from shy to confident in eight short weeks!”
Student's Voice Their Opinions
“I was very shy and now I feel like public speaking is natural for me. I can’t believe it”
Young Student's Thoughts
“I would never have got up in front of an audience before but now I feel very confident”
Post Pandemic Effort To Build Student Confidence
After a challenging 18 months of online schooling, community leaders were seeing children fall behind. The students were not only behind academically but socially too. Many parents were complaining their children were becoming very shy and not engaging fully in school life.
As a responsible organisation Three Meem Foundation were determined to help these students regain their foothold at school and in society.
They had run a speakers club for the past two years however they felt it was not as successful as they had wished. Attendance was initially high but waivered very quickly. The dropout rate was close to 60%. They also felt the club lacked structure and professional delivery.
Dr Tariq, chairman of the foundation, was seeking out help and came across Young Leaders Academy. After an initial meeting with CEO Imtiaz, Dr Tariq knew this was the organisation to lead their speakers club.
 Dr Tariq said, “It’s hands-down the most successful speakers club we have ever run. We had high engagement rates, extremely happy parents and confident students.
The students have all learnt skills that will help them in their school, college, university and work lives.” Â
Taking Students from Very Anxious to Very Confident in Eight Short Weeks
After discovering Young Leaders Academy through a webinar for International School Leaders, Deputy Head of British International School Riyadh, Naim Shabir wanted to take a closer look at the Pitch Perfect Public Speaking program.
The challenge he faces everyday is ensuring children learn the English language to a very high level of competency. Not such a challenge you may think – think again! The children that attend his school are from many different continents and English is their second language.
Add on top the pandemic and you have an incredible set of compounding challenges. Not least that children were very anxious about returning to school, they missed their friends and teachers and the Saudi government had tighter covid rules than most, meaning an extended home learning for the whole school. Â
A pre-program survey revealed 15% of children were very anxious about speaking in public and all had issues and challenges across the spectrum when it came to standing up and voicing their opinions.
Naim wanted the program to specifically target those children and see if it could help build their confidence, give them structure in their speech and ultimately engage them further in to school life, a love for learning and better attainment.
The Pitch Perfect Public Speaking Online Course had a profound impact on every child. Taking even the most anxious to either slightly more confident all the way to very confident.Â
The school have been most impressed about how easy it has been to implement the program and how easy it has been to engage the students into public speaking. They are now running the Pitch Perfect program every 12 weeks with years 3 to 9.
Young Leaders Academy have helped train up staff at the school. This has meant the school can now run the Pitch Perfect program themselves using the teacher resources supplied, meaning a successful and sustainable program is now available to every student in the school. Â
Our Academic Leaders were involved in a public speaking workshop yesterday with Pitch Perfect: Young Leaders Academy.
They learnt breathing strategies, strategies for structuring a speech, tips for keeping their audience engaged, as well as getting involved in a variety of different speaking games.
It was great to see our students talking with passion and confidence about a variety of topics and supporting their peers through any nerves using the strategies that they had learnt.
It was great to see both quiet and confident boys having a go at public speaking in front of the group, and hopefully you will see the boys contributing and presenting in class with greater self- awareness in the coming weeks.
Mr Harrison
Headteacher, Burnage Academy for Boys
High Impact Sports Leaders
St Barnabas Primary School in Warrington, England have year-on-year challenges. The community the school serves ranks 3rd in the multiple indices of deprivation with over 60% of children on FSM. Society has already written-off its pupils. But this school does not stand for that.
They constantly seize the challenges ahead of them and look for ways and opportunities to change the course of history for every child – regardless of their background.
In fact they helped develop the Reach for the Stars sports leaders award with us back in 2010.Â
Each pupil that now goes through the program is offered wider leadership opportunities. Helping out in-school and at their ever-growing selection of after-school clubs.Â
Many alumni even return to help out and also to inspire the younger children into sports leadership. It’s one of the most impressive sports leadership programs in the country and St Barnabas is an Ambassador School for Young Leaders Academy. Â
Taking Leadership Into The Community
Barrow Hall primary School faced many challenges with their sports leaders program. Including high attrition rates, bored sports leaders, minimal engagement from the younger children and a lack of strategy and direction.
John Littler, Head Teacher, wanted a program that would increase playground activity from 60% to 85% and he knew a structured sports leader award could potentially help.
They had used some of the ‘better known’ programs but found they didn’t work and their sports leaders offer was back at square one.
They were introduced to the Reach for Stars sports leader award back in 2018 and haven’t looked back since.
It has completely transformed their sports leadership program, engaged the sports leaders with vital life-skills and a valuable certificate whilst also increasing playground activity, improving behaviour and engaging younger pupils into activity and sport.
The sports leaders have gained so much confidence that they are now taking their skills in to the community in settings like local nurseries (kindergartens) and residential homes for the elderly.
Targeted Intervention with Impact and Success
Changing the educational trajectory of children who are in care, or in danger of low attainment is an ever increasing challenge.Â
During a meeting with a UK Primary School (not named for privacy), we showed them details of how improving public speaking is linked to higher educational attainment.
The school was impressed by the links and outcomes and wanted to explore this further.Â
We suggested they take a selection of children they would like to target and put them through a pilot. They agreed and the results were staggering.
Of the selection – every child saw marked improvements with their Literacy and Numeracy. The school now is using the Pitch Perfect public speaking award for targeted intervention with a whole cross section of children including vulnerable but also anxious and shy children too, with equally great success.
Firstly it equips the children with the basic knowledge and skills of what it is to be a leader.
Furthermore it clearly develops the character of the children and is a huge benefit to their personal development (a section of the OFSTED Inspection Framework).
The children are able to develop their confidence, self esteem, communication, problem solving skills, creativity skills, teamwork skills and conflict resolution skills.
These skills in turn impact their life chances, as jobs of the future are looking for good communicators, team players, problem solvers and people who can think outside the box.
Mrs Emma Perkins
Deputy Headteacher, St Barnabas Primary School
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