Skills for Tomorrow
Month 5 - Amelia Earhart. Leadership
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Introduction – Discovering the Leader Within
Begin by introducing leadership as an important skill for life. Discuss with the class how leaders help others, make positive choices, and show courage when facing challenges. Encourage children to think about examples of leadership they have seen at school, at home, or in their community.
After watching the Amelia Earhart video, guide a discussion about how she demonstrated leadership throughout her life. Look for qualities such as courage, perseverance, confidence, responsibility, and determination. Encourage children to reflect on times they have shown leadership, tried something new, helped others, or continued working towards a goal even when it felt difficult.
This month, we explore the incredible skill of leadership. Being a leader means having the courage to forge a path, making thoughtful decisions, and encouraging those around you through your own positive examples.
Our journey begins with the story of Amelia Earhart, a pioneer who proved that anything is possible with self-belief and the heart to chase your aspirations. After our video, we will reflect on her experiences together. Consider the obstacles she overcame and how her determination paved the way for others to find their own bravery.
Inspired by Amelia, you will embark on a personal leadership quest to grow your own strengths. This might involve stepping into a new role, supporting a friend, or showing resilience even when things feel a little bit scary.
Over the coming weeks, you will see how kindness, responsibility, and persistence transform you into a unique leader. True leadership isn't about giving orders; it is about acting as a role model and helping everyone around you feel capable and strong.
Always remember that leadership starts with one bold moment. By choosing to be helpful and steadfast, you can light the way for others and create a wonderful impact on your world.
Print Your ‘Skills for Tomorrow’ Booklet
Help children personalise their Leadership Booklet. Explain that it will be their record of leadership growth and the brave choices they make throughout the month. Model how to write reflections and celebrate examples of courage, responsibility, perseverance, and helping others.
Support children in understanding how documenting progress helps them recognise their own growth as leaders. Look for fine motor skills during writing and drawing, communication when sharing their ideas, and self-awareness as they reflect on challenges they have faced, goals they have achieved, and ways they have shown leadership in their daily lives.
As you begin this month’s challenge, you will need a special place to record all the progress you make. Do not worry, we have created a Leadership Booklet just for you.
Simply print your own copy and, as you complete each task, fill it in to capture your brave choices, leadership moments, and proud achievements. One day, when you graduate, you can look back and remember how you learned to believe in yourself, take responsibility, and inspire others through your actions.
Just like Amelia Earhart, you will discover that leadership begins with taking small steps outside your comfort zone and having the courage to keep going when things feel challenging.
Remember, there are 6 booklets to collect throughout the course.
Tell Us About Yourself – My Dream for the Future
Use this activity to help children begin thinking about their future and the dreams they have for themselves. Encourage them to talk about careers they admire and the reasons they are drawn to them. Remind children that there are many different ways to make a positive difference in the world.
Look for confidence when sharing ideas, creativity in their drawings, and self-awareness as they reflect on their interests, strengths, and aspirations. Encourage children to recognise that leadership begins with having a vision for the future and believing that their goals are possible. Celebrate each child's unique ambitions and reinforce the idea that determination, courage, and hard work can help turn dreams into reality.
Before We Begin…
Before we can start the course, we would love to know a little bit about you.
On the first page of your booklet, tell us about a job you would love to do when you grow up. What do you want to be? Why does that job interest you? How do you think it will make you happy?
Then, use the box provided to draw a picture of yourself doing your dream job. Make it colourful, creative, and full of imagination.
This is your chance to make your booklet truly yours, so have fun and dream big.
Remember, every great leader starts with a dream. Amelia Earhart dreamed of flying high above the clouds, and through courage and determination, she turned her dream into reality. What dream will you follow?
Read This Week’s Story – The Girl Who Chased the Clouds
Read or play the Amelia Earhart story and guide a reflective discussion about the leadership qualities she demonstrated throughout her life. Ask children how courage, perseverance, confidence, and determination helped Amelia achieve her goals. Discuss the challenges she faced and how she continued moving forward even when things were difficult.
Look for comprehension skills, critical thinking, and personal connections as children reflect on the story. Encourage them to share examples of times they have been brave, tried something new, or worked hard to achieve a goal. This story provides a powerful introduction to leadership and helps children understand that leaders inspire others through their actions and choices.
Each month, you will read the true story of a remarkable person who has shown us exactly how to use the skill we are learning to practise.
This week, we are focusing on leadership, and we will be reading the story of Amelia Earhart, the girl who dreamed of flying high above the clouds.
Amelia was born in Kansas, America, and from a young age she loved adventure. She was curious about the world around her and always wanted to explore what was possible. When she discovered aeroplanes, she set her heart on becoming a pilot, even though many people believed that women should not fly.
Through courage, determination, and hard work, Amelia followed her dream. She became one of the world's most famous pilots and inspired people everywhere to believe in themselves and never give up. By being brave enough to go first, she showed others what was possible.
Read or listen to the story opposite, then talk with your friends about what you learned from Amelia's journey and how she demonstrated leadership throughout her life.
Comprehension Questions – Amelia Earhart and Leadership
Guide children through the comprehension activities and encourage them to think deeply about Amelia Earhart's journey. Discuss the leadership qualities she demonstrated, including courage, perseverance, confidence, and determination. Ask children how these qualities helped her achieve her dream of becoming a pilot.
Look for reading comprehension, vocabulary development, critical thinking, and communication skills as children complete the task card. Encourage them to make connections between Amelia's experiences and their own lives by sharing times when they have shown bravery, taken responsibility, or continued trying when something felt difficult. This activity helps children understand that leadership is about making positive choices, believing in yourself, and inspiring others through your actions.
To learn more about this inspiring person and how she developed the powerful skill of leadership, read the story opposite carefully.
Look at the questions, explore the key vocabulary, and try to fill in the missing words in the sentences.
Work with the friends around you to complete your task card. Talk about what you have learned, ask each other questions, and share your ideas.
Let us discover how Amelia Earhart followed her dreams, showed courage when facing challenges, and inspired people around the world to believe that anything is possible when you lead with confidence and determination.
Research – Choose Your Inspirational Leader
Guide children in choosing an inspirational leader who interests them. Discuss the different ways people can demonstrate leadership, whether through courage, helping others, solving problems, protecting the environment, making discoveries, or standing up for what they believe in.
Support children as they research age-appropriate information and encourage them to share their findings with their classmates. Look for curiosity, questioning, communication, and growing confidence as they learn about their chosen leader.
This activity strengthens research skills, critical thinking, and self-awareness while helping children recognise that leadership can take many forms and that everyone has the potential to make a positive difference in the world.
Now that you have learned all about Amelia Earhart and how she used leadership, courage, and determination to achieve her dreams, it is your turn.
Choose one of the 12 inspirational leaders from our list. Once you have chosen, go home and do your own research about them. Use your research booklet to record three amazing facts about how they demonstrated leadership, overcame challenges, or inspired others to achieve something important.
Then, draw a picture of your chosen leader to bring your research to life.
As you complete your research, think about the qualities that made this person a leader. Were they brave? Did they help others? Did they work hard to achieve a goal? You may discover that leadership can be shown in many different ways.
Let’s Make Something! (You have 50 ways to choose from)
Encourage children to explore the list of 50 creative options and choose one independently. Explain that this is their opportunity to decide how they would like to share what they have learned about Amelia Earhart and leadership.
Allow children time to plan their project and gather any materials they may need. Look for independence, creativity, decision-making, and self-expression as they work. Encourage them to think about the leadership qualities Amelia demonstrated, such as courage, perseverance, confidence, and determination, and how these can be represented in their chosen project.
Remind children that their work should help others learn something important about Amelia's life and inspire them to believe in themselves. Celebrate originality and effort, and encourage children to share how their project reflects the lessons they learned from Amelia's journey.
With your new knowledge of Amelia Earhart, it’s time to make something that shows how much you have learned about her life. There are 50 different options to choose from. Pick just one!
You can work on your own or with a partner to create something special about Amelia’s story. Use your project to teach others about the remarkable life of Amelia Earhart, the challenges she overcame, and the leadership qualities that helped her achieve her dreams.
As you create your project, think about the courage, determination, and confidence Amelia showed throughout her life. How can you share these important lessons with others?
Your finished creation should help people understand how Amelia inspired generations of children and adults to believe in themselves, follow their dreams, and lead the way.
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Choose Your Challenge
Introduce the idea that leadership is something everyone can practise every day. Help children choose a realistic leadership challenge that they can maintain throughout the month, such as helping others, showing kindness, taking responsibility for a classroom task, trying something new, or encouraging a friend.
Support children in setting a clear goal and discussing how their chosen action might help themselves and others. Look for initiative, responsibility, perseverance, empathy, and confidence as children work towards their challenge.
Use circle time and class discussions to reflect on progress, celebrate successes, and talk about any obstacles they have faced. Encourage children to recognise that leadership is not about being the loudest or being in charge, but about making positive choices, leading by example, and helping others succeed.
Now that you are becoming an expert on leadership, it is time to start strengthening this skill in your own life.
This month, we want you to choose one leadership action and keep doing it for the entire month. The secret to becoming a great leader is to be brave, take responsibility, and lead by example, even when things feel challenging.
Look at the list of possible leadership actions and pick one that you believe you can keep doing until the very end of the month. It might be helping others without being asked, showing kindness every day, trying something new, taking responsibility for a task, or encouraging others when they need support.
Once you have chosen your challenge, write down why you picked it and what you hope to achieve by the end of the month.
Remember, leadership is not about being in charge. It is about making positive choices, inspiring others through your actions, and becoming the very best version of yourself.
Keep on Track – Leading the Way
Model how to record daily leadership actions and support children in completing their checklist throughout the month. Encourage them to reflect on the choices they made each day and how those choices helped themselves or others.
Discuss examples of leadership, such as showing kindness, taking responsibility, helping a friend, being brave when facing a challenge, or encouraging others to do their best. Use these conversations to help children understand that leadership can be demonstrated in many different ways.
Look for self-reflection, perseverance, responsibility, confidence, and growing independence as children track their progress. Encourage them to celebrate their achievements, recognise areas for growth, and understand that leadership develops through consistent positive actions over time.
This is the part of the course where you keep building your leadership skills and show how your actions can make a positive difference.
We have created a daily checklist counter for you to write one simple sentence each day about how you demonstrated leadership and kept your challenge going.
Perhaps you helped someone without being asked, took responsibility for a task, showed courage when trying something new, or encouraged a friend who needed support. Tell us what you did and how it helped you grow as a leader.
This part is all about showing that leadership is built one small action at a time. Every positive choice you make helps you become more confident, responsible, and ready to make a difference.
At the end of each week, take a photo, print it, and stick it in the space provided as proof that you are continuing to lead the way and work towards your goal.
Reflection and Quiz
Facilitate a reflective conversation about what the children have learned about leadership throughout the month. Encourage them to think about how they have grown, the challenges they have overcome, and the ways they have demonstrated leadership in their daily lives.
Support children as they complete their written reflections and online quiz. Ask questions that encourage deeper thinking, such as: "When did you feel most brave?", "How did you help others?", "What leadership skill are you most proud of?", and "How have you changed this month?"
Look for evidence of self-awareness, confidence, perseverance, responsibility, and goal-setting. Encourage children to recognise that leadership is a journey that develops over time through positive choices and consistent actions.
Celebrate their achievements with a class reflection or mini graduation ceremony, and provide opportunities for children to share their proudest leadership moments with their peers. Reinforce the idea that every child has the ability to lead, inspire others, and make a positive difference in the world.
You have completed another month of your Kindergarten Diploma, and you are well on your way to earning your full certificate at the end of the year.
There is still an exciting journey ahead, but now it is time to reflect on how you feel after spending a whole month learning about leadership and practising it in your everyday life.
Answer the questions opposite in your Skills for Tomorrow booklet. Think about the leadership qualities you have developed, the challenges you have faced, and the moments when you showed courage, responsibility, determination, or kindness. Then, complete your online quiz by clicking the button below.
When you are finished, take a photo of yourself holding your certificate and stick it next to your reflections to celebrate completing another important step on your learning journey.
Well done for learning how leaders inspire others, lead by example, and make a positive difference in the world around them.
Getting Your Certificate
This final step builds reflection, recall, and self-assessment skills. The quiz reinforces students’ understanding of determination, resilience, and growth while rewarding their effort with certification. Encourage learners to view the certificate as a symbol of their personal progress, not just a score.
Consider reviewing key ideas beforehand, offering support where needed, and celebrating every student’s achievement. Extension: invite learners to share one way they will apply determination in their own lives to strengthen lasting impact.
You have explored the power of leadership — discovering how courage, determination, responsibility, and kindness can help you make a positive difference every day. Throughout this month, you have learned that leadership is not about being in charge, but about leading by example, making thoughtful choices, and encouraging others to be their best.
To celebrate your journey, you will now complete a short quiz on the skills and lessons you have gained this month.
If you achieve 80% or more, you will proudly receive your certificate. This is a way of recognising the courage, perseverance, and leadership you have demonstrated throughout the course.
Well done for learning how leadership can inspire others, create positive change, and help you achieve your goals. By choosing to lead with kindness, confidence, and responsibility, you help make your classroom, school, and world a better place.
