Beyond Academics
Leadership,
practised.
Not a badge to wear — a set of decisions to make, a team to run, a year to be held accountable for. Vedam's leadership structure gives children real work, not ceremony.
The roles
Who leads what.
House Captains
Two per house, elected by their house each May. They lead events, coach juniors, and represent the house in the leadership council.
Prefects
Grade 11 students chosen for a full-year term. Every prefect owns one aspect of school life — assemblies, discipline, sport, arts, or service.
Head Boy & Head Girl
The two most senior student roles, chosen from the prefect body. They chair the leadership council and speak for the student body at official events.
Class Representatives
Elected every term from Grade 3 up. They carry classroom concerns to the pastoral team and lead their class in inter-class initiatives.
Council Portfolios
Sports, academics, culture, service, and student welfare each have a portfolio head — real budgets, real decisions, real accountability.
Junior Council (G3–5)
A parallel council for the primary school, meeting fortnightly with the primary coordinator. Their first project each year is chosen by vote.
How leadership works here
Elected, trusted, held to it.
Elected, not appointed
Every major role is elected — by peers, house-mates, or class-mates. Adults ratify, but they don't decide.
Responsibility with mandate
Every leader owns a budget line, a calendar slot, and a set of decisions that adults have agreed to defer to them.
Trained on the job
Termly leadership retreats run by the pastoral team — negotiation, public speaking, and how to run a meeting that ends on time.
Meet a house captain.
On visit days, our student council hosts every family through campus. You'll hear the year from the ones running it.