Christleton High School Students

Hot Scholars

CHS Hot Scholars

Hot Scholars is a programme run at Christleton High School for positive and enthusiastic students who want to contribute and affect the school and community in a positive way. Now firmly established, we are very pleased to be able to say that Hot Scholars has now spread to other schools as well.

It is all about acting and learning independently and being listened to and known as an individual. As a Hot Scholar, you will belong to a subject that you will engage with through weekly meetings, activities, events and presentations. You will be an active citizen who does things for yourself, your subject and your school.

The Hot Scholars Three Emblems

Christleton High School students
  • The Wildebeest for the enormous movement created when many work together
  • The Earth for the way the hot core helps give life to a huge community
  • The Swan for Christleton and for grace when paddling hard to make progress

Students apply to become Hot Scholars in a subject they love. They can apply independently or with friends. During the course of their time as a Hot Scholar, they carry out a range of different activities that revolve around the 5 C’s, this could be charity events to demonstrate caring, running competitions to demonstrate that they are cheerful, working with the rest of the Hot Scholars at open evenings to demonstrate collaboration, creating displays, resources or presentations to demonstrate creativity or engaging in marking/judging of work to demonstrate that they are committed. Activities are recorded on cards which can be submitted to enter a prize raffle.

As a new addition for 2023-24, each subject will have a Head Hot Scholar who will demonstrate their leadership and organisation by leading meetings and organising members and activities to ensure the Hot Scholars are productive and positive in their output. This is a great opportunity for students to build essential leadership and communication skills and take a step towards being a potential head student at sixth form and having a full CV or personal statement for later life.

When the programme was launched, new Hot Scholars considered how even those who feel small may have big ideas. We looked at the ways in which working together in groups can help us all to put our big ideas into practice. As well as independence and an individualised experience, enjoyment is important!