Pupil Responsibility
Children are at the heart of our school. Pupil voice is crucial to ensuring children feel valued and creating a positive and supportive school. We want children to be involved in decision-making to recognise the impact they have.
School Advocates
Pupil Voice at Chesterton Primary School is represented daily through genuine respect and communication between children and adults.
Children engage with voting, whole-school decision making, teacher interviews as well as reflecting and identifying priorities around their curriculum and learning. Children are encouraged to share their views and ideas.
House Captains
Our school has four houses: Apedale, Glasshouse, Holditch and Parkhouse (all named after historical coal mines from the local area).
Each house / team has two house captains who are selected each year.
These children support activities and events, lead assemblies, support younger children and act as role models and ambassadors for the school.
Librarians
Librarians support the running of the school library.
Their role includes:
- Making decisions around new books
- Tidying up book shelves and ensuring appropriate storage in the correct place
- Making recommendations to other children and helping them choose a new book
- Reporting any damaged books
- Labelling and registering of new books
- Covering new books with protective sleeves
Sports Leaders
Sports Leaders are passionate about sports and helping the whole school to engage with learning new skills and keeping physically active.
Their role includes:
- Making decisions around new equipment
- Tidying up and setting out equipment
- Helping other children to be active and participate in sports
- Reporting any damaged equipment
- Helping with sports clubs and events
Wellbeing Ambassadors
Being happy in school is crucial because it directly impacts learning, wellbeing and future success.
Our school has twelve wellbeing ambassadors. These are children who apply for the role and undergo training in school through the NHS Mental Health Support Team to support emotional and mental health for their peers through fostering a positive and supportive school environment. Our school's Senior Mental Health Lead supports our wellbeing ambassadors and their work.
Playground Leaders
Playground Leaders are trained to lead activities at break and lunchtime so that this time is positive and productive. School subscribes to the nationally recognised Playmaker's Award so that children receive external training and qualifications to support their role.
Their role includes:
- Setting up of games and activities
- Ensuring all children have someone to play with
- Showing children how to play
- Lead games with the younger children
- Twelve week training programme and qualification through the Playmaker's Award
Classroom Responsibilities
All children are encouraged to take responsibility for their school and especially their classroom. They learn the importance of looking after themselves, each other, equipment and how to be helpful.
Eco Warriors
Our school is passionate about caring for the environment and being as eco-friendly as we can be in our setting. Children raise awareness of wider eco issues around and outside of school. Their role includes:
- Collect recycling from the classrooms
- Support food waste collection in the hall
- Support recycling
- Support energy saving around school
- Support litter picking inside and outside of school
- Take part in community projects
- Share eco ideas and raise awareness
- Take care of the school gardens, plants and wildlife.
The Eco- Council have created their own ‘Eco-Code’:
- Collect scrap paper to recycle
- Help our wild life and look after our garden
- Eat healthy snacks
- Switch lights off when room not in use
- Turn taps off. Don’t leave them dripping
- Eat healthy dinners
- Recycle and reuse as much as you can
- Tidy litter away in to bins
- Only use what you need
- Never drop litter
- Recycle waste food
The following awards have been achieved so far:
