Pupil Leadership

developing independent life-long learners

At Tinsley Meadows, we have a Pupil Leadership Team comprised of different committees, who were elected by their peers to help us to collect the ideas of all the children in school, ensuring that their voices and opinions are heard. Through our Pupil Leadership Team, we strive to create confident and articulate leaders who feel empowered to help make decisions that will have a positive impact on the school and their community. Below are the different Pupil Leadership Teams we now have in school and some of their main duties.

Rights Respecting Ambassadors

Our Rights Respecting Ambassadors are children from each class (Year 1 to Year 6), who were chosen by their peers to ensure Tinsley Meadows is a Rights Respecting school. They have helped us to achieve the UNICEF UK Rights Respecting School’s Silver Award.

Our Rights Respecting Ambassadors represent their classes at meetings throughout the year and hold a number of responsibilities:

  • Developing children’s awareness of the articles within UN Convention on the Rights of a Child through delivering assemblies to their classes
  • Selecting a right focus on each half term and awarding right cards weekly for children respecting this right as well as half-termly certificates
  • Creating posters to inform pupils and parents about the rights of a child
  • Organising fundraising events

 

Eco Warriors

Our Eco Warriors are pupils from across school (Years 1 – Year 6) who are helping to raise the profile of environmental issues. They have recently helped us to achieve the Eco Green Flag Award with merit!

 

Our Eco Warriors represent their classes at meetings throughout the year and hold a number of responsibilities:
 
  • Taking part in lunchtime litter picks with their classes and community litter pick with the wider community
  • Organising whole-school recycling projects such as ‘The Big Battery Hunt’
  • Leading classroom assemblies on key dates such as World Environment Day
  • Creating posters to raise awareness of environmental issues

Learning Leaders

Our Learning Leaders are children from each class (Year 1 to Year 6), who are chosen by their peers to represent their class. As part of their role, they attend regular meetings throughout the year, gather opinions from their class and help with making important decisions about how to improve teaching and learning.

Our Learning Leaders:

  • Promote the school’s core values
  • Select a child who has completed an excellent piece of work to receive the ‘Super Star Learner of the Week’ award in
  • Provide regular feedback to the senior leadership team about what they have been learning
  • Suggest ways in which school could make learning even more exciting
  • Speak to visitors and explain what they have been learning
  • Assist with interviews for selecting new staff

Healthy Minds Champions

 

Our Healthy Minds Champions are children from each class (Year 3 to Year 6), who are chosen by their peers to represent their class. As part of their role, they attend regular meetings throughout the year, gather opinions from their class and help with making important decisions about how to make sure everyone is happy in school.

Some activities that the Healthy Minds chamions take part in throughout the year are:

  • Create a healthy minds questionnaire for all pupils to complete
  • Create a healthy mind plan to promote and improve the emotional well- being of children across school from the questionnaire responses
  • Be observant of pupils and staff across school completing good deeds and to participate in awarding random acts of kindness
  • Create and promote a checklist for children to promote good emotional and mental health
  • Experience mindfulness and relaxation techniques and develop skill and confidence to pass these onto other children