Pupil leadership roles and Year 6 Prefects help shape the character education that takes place within our school. By providing pupils with such responsibilities and pupil voice, we are enabling the leaders of the future, rethinking education, and helping tomorrow’s citizens flourish.

At Allens Croft Primary School we believe pupils should be at the centre of learning and should have an important voice within the school.  Pupils are given opportunities to have an input into decisions and make suggestions to improve their school, as well as being more aware of the wider community.

Leadership is integral to lifelong learning and all pupils should have the opportunity to demonstrate and develop leadership.
 

The school have been working to further promote a range of leadership opportunities from the traditional roles of school counsellor, play leaders, arts council and eco council to more recent opportunities such as Maths leaders, English leaders, SEND leaders, wellbeing leaders to STEM and digital leaders. Some of these posts promote the notions of democracy and require prospective candidates to appeal to their peers for votes while others follow the principles of recruitment in the workplace. The latter requires pupils to respond to job descriptions, write letters of application and in some cases attend an interview. There are then posts that expect a pupil to meet a specific standard before being appointed to the role. Roles such as prefect, school council and digital leader often conduct annual questionnaires to collect children’s views and habits across areas such as personal safety & behaviour, bullying and digital literacy/e-safety.