Pupil Leadership
We believe that it is important to help children to develop their leadership skills. The school consistently promotes the personal development of pupils through enacting opportunities for Pupil Leadership, including (but not limited to) the responsibilities below.
Opportunities are given to nurture, develop and stretch pupils’ leadership skills, enacting the Growing good character and School Values.
Responsibilities include:
Litter Community Service
This is a group created and run by several KS2 children. They organise litter collections around the school, ensuring a tidy, clean school environment. The team have regular meetings to review their progress and gather further support for the service.
Librarians
Year 6 prefects are our librabrians. They wrote applications to show their suitability for the roles. They help peers in the library by scanning books, offering reading suggestions and ensuring the library is used appropriately.
Story time
Year 6 prefects rotate this role which involves reading stories within our library to the younger children. This supports them at lunchtimes and develops an early love of reading.
Playleaders
Our year 6 playleaders encourage positive play at lunchtimes, working with our SMSAs to enact games from the UVA Playtime Playbook. They also take suggestions from peers for new games that can be included as part of breaktimes and lunchtimes.
Lunch Monitors
Our year 6 prefects rotate this role, which involves supporting the younger children withing the dining hall. This ensures that the children learn and understand the routines of lunchtime.
Eco Committee
The Eco Committee have worked with Mr Hancock to discuss and enact upon issues in and around our school that have an impact on the local environment. This has included promoting ‘switch off’ weeks to save electricity and promoting recycling throughout the school community. They have worked hard to achieve and sustain the Green Flag using the Eco School framework. This team lead assemblies and support events (like litter picks) within the local community.
Council Crew
Every Thursday, all children participate in mixed-age groups to discuss recent topical issues or debate questions, such as climate change, school lunches or national news events. Feedback is given to, and shared with, the Principal Team to ensure that Pupil Voice is at the forefront of the UVA culture.
Kindness Ambassadors
Through our work with 52 Lives – Kindness schools programme, we support children to spread kindness across the school. We have two year 6 lead ambassadors who work with other ambassadors across the country to discuss kindness and the ways in which we can improve it. Each class has a nominated ambassador who is in charge of class initiatives to promote and recognise kindness.
Safeguarding Team
Our pupil group from across the school meet with a member of staff from the school’s safeguarding team to share feedback and key messages around how children are feeling about safety within the school. They help to develop pupil voice and create pupil-friendly messages that can be shared with all children and parents.
Health and Safety Team
Our pupil group from across the school will meet with a member of staff responsible for Health and Safety to discuss issues related to safe working practices in our school. They will gather feedback from peers as well as provide pupil voice for any improvements that can be made to our school site. They help to develop pupil voice and create pupil friendly messages for the whole academy.
