Pupil Voice

Our School Council

After learning about the importance of Democracy as one of our British Values, our School Council was voted for by the pupils of each class. Each candidate gave a speech to explain why they thought they could represent the class best and what they would like to achieve. The other pupils then chose the person they thought could represent them best.

We meet regularly to discuss a variety of issues and projects, which currently include fund raising ideas, safety posters for parents and designing a logo to represent us.

Within our group, we gave speeches to apply for different roles on the council, which were then voted on. The results were:
Chairperson – Lyra
Deputy Chairperson – Charlie
Secretaries – Jacob and Poppy
Treasurer – Matilda
Councillors – Phoebe, Alfie, Bobby and Riley

We encourage children to speak to their own class councillors if they have any issues they wish to raise.

JOSO

As part of our computing curriculum, at Long Sutton Primary School, we teach the children how to stay safe online.
We have a fantastic group of children from Year 5 and 6, called JOSOs (Junior Online Safety Officers) who promote Online Safety and have worked together to keep children at our school safe when using the internet.

So far this year JOSOs have:

  • Attended regular Teams meetings with the ‘Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership’ along with many other schools to discuss issues around children using the internet. The children work within their school groups to answer questions and complete tasks. This enables the Junior Online Safety Officers to consider how to support and promote online safety within their school.
  • Carried out a survey to all classes to find what worried the children most about being online.
  • Led an assembly to inform children about an online safety poster competition set by the ‘Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership’.
  • Worked as a team and thought of a plan to make worry boxes for Key Stage One and Key Stage Two, where children can write any online worries. The JOSO team check these boxes every Wednesday and speak to the children who have concerns. The concerns are then passed on to a teacher.
  • Made worry boxes.
  • Planned, prepared and delivered a whole school assembly to 400 children to introduce worry boxes and discussed age restrictions for social media platforms. They also reminded children that if they have any issues online to zip it, block it and flag it.

We are proud of our Junior Online Safety Officers. They are having a positive impact and have promoted their online safety messages clearly across the school!

LSCP - Lincolnshire Safety Childrens Partnership

Eco Warriors

At Long Sutton Primary School, we strive to teach our children the importance of preserving both their local and global environment.  The Eco Warriors are children who have a love for their environment and have volunteered to help the staff and children at our school to become more environmentally friendly.

So far this year we have:

  • Collected litter around the school regularly in our lunch breaks. 
  • Organised a fundraising day to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund.  We gave an assembly to explain how we, as a school, could be more environmentally friendly, to explain the good work that the WWF does and how they could use any money that we raise.  We held an Eco Day on Friday 26th May where pupils came to school wearing blue and green and we managed to raise lots of money which the WWF was very pleased to receive.  Here are some of our classes on our Eco Fundraising day.

Happiness Heroes

Our school’s Happiness Heroes help to lead the way in helping fellow pupils look after their own mental health. Each are keen and passionate about supporting others and improving the provision in school to support everyone to feel ‘happy’.

Examples of the work they have suggested and implemented themselves this year are: going into classes each week to model Happy Breathing techniques as well as creating a calm space for children to visit at lunchtime (once a week), called ‘Happy Hub’, which is situated away from the playground. The Happy Hub has proven to be very popular and children from all year groups are invited to attend if they wish. Here they are able to speak to our Happiness Heroes for support and/or they are able to participate in a range of calming activities: colouring/drawing, playing cards, completing puzzles or watching a film. I wonder what they will implement next?