The MS Volcano Leaders

MS Volcano Leaders

The JIS Volcano Leaders program is a grade 8 student leadership opportunity that plays a vital role in our MS community. The Volcano Leaders are essential in creating and maintaining the positive, fun, supportive environment that is the heart of our school. They do this, by fostering communication between members of the school community- staff, students and administration, as well as promoting spirit and good citizenship throughout the MS.

The students who are selected as members of the Volcano Leaders team will have the opportunity to do a variety of community service activities, help organize and plan school events such as socials, volcano sports and spirit days, and assist with running and planning all MADNESS days.

The Volcano Leaders program is a great opportunity for students to practice leadership through responsibility, and develop their public speaking skills. Students who would like to be considered for the program in the 8th grade year, go through an application process including written personal statements and interviews. The application process focuses on finding students who exemplify the characteristics listed below, and a group of students with a variety of experiences and perspectives that will bring out each other's strengths.

Volcano Leaders are:

COMMITTED to being a leader for the whole year.
SELF MOTIVATED and will take the initiative to be a strong leader.
CONFIDENT in front of your peers.
PASSIONATE about making the Middle School the best place it can be
ENERGETIC participants
Role models who EXEMPLIFY and live the JIS core values in their daily interactions

Students who are selected as Volcano Leaders will:

Promote our Middle School events like Madness, Socials, Spirit Week
Motivate their Volcano Group members to actively participate in school activities
Run activities at Madness events and Socials
Be role models for their peers
Present/participate in Bali Stage

When asked to describe in their own words what the Volcano Leaders are, members of the group created the following list of their characteristics and responsibilities to the MS:

Positive leader
We maintain a strong school spirit
We help with organising, promoting and supporting fun activities and MS Events.
We stay passionate and approachable for our peers
We are open minded with our ideas and ideas suggested by other students
We support our Volcano's victory in Madness and any other activity
We are the representatives of the students in the school organization.
We try to be role-models and try to set a good example to others.
We try to make the MS life more enjoyable and fun.
We welcome new students and participate in such activities like the student ambassador program.
We work to be encouraging to our peers.
We show students why it is fun and good to participate in school activities.
We help students kind of de-stress or have fun especially during these difficult times.
We stress the importance of bringing the community together so that people can make new friendships, and meet many other people in the community by bringing a sense of school spirit through a variety of games and activities.
To represent JIS mottos and values. For example, Choose to Refuse Single Use and Be Best for the World, etc.

When asked to indicate the benefits of participating in the Volcano Leaders, members indicated the following:

We learn to get organised and respect others.
We improve our leadership skills
We learn how to be cooperative with people even if they are not good friends
We learn how to deal with different types of people
We learn how to organize activities and people (ex. controlling the crowd)
We learn to stay as a good team
We Learn to work together as a strong team
We learn how to be independent

The 2021/22 Volcano Leaders

Charging forward during this challenging time of hybrid learning, our 2021/22 Volcano Leaders are tasked with leading like no student council has ever had to before!