Our Christian value of trust is incredibly important for creating a valued environment that all feel actively responsible. At Longnor CE Primary School, we empower our children to lead. Our assembly leaders lead in prayer and begin each assembly, each day. They have the trust and respect from the whole school.
We have committees that help make decisions to run the school:
- Our eco-committee inspires others to look after our environment for the future. They take the lead on cutting our carbon and set whole school challenges that are taken into the wider community. Presently, we are taking part in cut your carbon for November challenge.
- Our school council, listens to the views of the school and promotes whole school aims.
- Our SOUL (speak out loud) team concern themselves with the safety of others around school – they listen to the whole school through surveys and support those that may need them. This is our safeguarding board.
- Our sports leaders promote health and wellbeing across school. They run sports events and have training to see how to further develop their leadership skills.
- Each child is given the opportunity to lead a club. If they have a talent that they want to develop and share, then they are given the platform to lead.
Valuing trust and promoting responsibility is important as all are welcome and together we learn.
School Council
School council meet every week with Mrs Edgerton. They have been leading an oracy project across the school whereby every person has a say in key issues that happen in school, for example school dinners, playground equipment and how noisy the school dinner hall can be!
The Soul Team
The SOUL team(speak out loud) with Mrs Edgerton are our school online safety ambassadors. They have surveyed the school looking at the key apps that they use and update families with top tips in how to stay safe when using these apps. They are about to use the Project Evolve resources to lead an assembly on Privacy and Security online.
Sports Ambassadors
Sports leaders, with Mr Helliker, attended training for sports ambassadors at CSS with the Trust-ed Alliance. They have been instrumental in organising tournaments throughout the school and are currently planning a ‘New Aged Kurling’ event for Merlin Class.
Assembly Leaders
We also have a team of assembly leaders who have been leading worship each week. Their confidence in standing up in front of the whole school is developing and they are now communicating clearly and demonstrating excellent respect to all.
Eco-committee
Mrs Lewis has set up the Eco-council. They have arranged an eco-day for the autumn term, whereby everyone can where something green (if they like) and bring in a donation for the rainforest alliance.
Librarians
We have a group of librarians who help run story time club and keep the library organised ready to be used throughout the school. They are from across key stage two.
Club leaders
Some children have volunteered their time to lead clubs during the lunch times.
They have developed their own plans and are now leading a range of activities for all ages.