Denbigh High School formally installed its cadre of student leaders for 2016-17 at a Leadership Investiture Ceremony the school says is intended to both empower them and inspire other students to strive for leadership.

The ceremony, the first of its kind at the Clarendon school, saw over 300 students being pinned with their various badges and bestowed with the responsibility of guiding their peers.

The newly invested student leaders include prefects, student councillors, peer counsellors, form monitors, block monitors, presidents of clubs and societies, sixth- form association presidents, house captains, and sport captains.

The event was organised by acting principal Janice Julal, vice-principal Shirley Taylor, and a team of teachers.

“Too often when we look around our school, all we see are students who are followers,” Julal said in her address. “While it is important to have followers, a school of over 1,500 students needs more leaders. As your teacher-leaders, we strongly believe that ‘leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders’, and our aim at Denbigh High is to create leaders who will build our school so that when you leave us, build Jamaica Land We Love into a place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business.”