Pupil Leadership at East Borough
At East Borough, we aim to support our pupils in developing skills that enable them to become good citizens once they move on from us. We want them to become confident individuals who have the courage to take on the responsibility of leadership. One of the ways we achieve this is by offering the opportunity to contribute to different aspects of school life. Please see below for details of how pupils at East Borough have leadership roles within the school.
Our current leadership roles include:
House Captains
School Council
Reading Reps
Language Ambassadors
Anti-Bullying Ambassadors
Digital Leaders
ECO-Council Representatives
Our leadership roles at East Borough give pupils from across the school, the opportunity to lead, evaluate and make changes.
School Council
We are very proud to introduce our School Council.
These children have been voted into role by their peers after delivering some inspiring speeches, as part of our democratic process. We would like to congratulate them on their achievement and want to thank Maidstone Borough Council for lending us their Polling Station each year - it really helps the children to experience something they will be able to do, when they are older.
The School Council members meet fortnightly with a member of SLT and focus on different initiatives and themes across the school. Action plans are shared with the class and school community, showing what the pupils have said and what actions or outcomes were taken.
House Captains
Each year, the Year 6 pupils write a speech applying for the prestigious role of House Captain. The children provide evidence that they are excellent role models and follow our Core Values; demonstrate that they are dedicated and responsible members of our community and finally, prove that they can be an ambassador for East Borough. The speeches show East Borough's dedicated to speaking eloquently and confidently and it is a lovely to way to start each acaemic year.
The younger children across the school listen to the speeches in a 'House Assembly' and get to vote for the best represenative. Two are chosen to represent each house and these Year 6's then become the lead School Council members with children from across the other year groups.
It has been a difficult decision this year, as the calibre of speeches was extremely high. However, we are confident that the eight pupils we have chosen will show excellent leadership and demonstrate our Core Values brilliantly.
The 4 Houses represented at our school are:
Sapphire
Topaz
Ruby
Emerald
Language Ambassadors
We are the Language Ambassadors and our families typically come from many different countries and cultures. We are able to speak lots of different languages and enjoy using these skills to help those who speak english as a second language. We are buddies for children who are new to our school and sometimes arrange lunchtime activities or read stories to children in their first language. We often translate for teachers and help with discussions about our national culture to promote a greater understanding. As Language Ambassadors, we also support the organisation of language days and the Language Fair.
We love being able to communicate with so many in our school community and enjoy promoting and embracing the different cultures we have within our school.
Across the academic year we have different languages we focus on and we share our knowledge of these languages in assemblies and during events. We have looked at sign language, Chinese and Spanish recently!
We loved sign language so much that we are now using it regularly in assemblies to sign our welcome greetings, songs and to communicate on the playground!
Year 5
Maxim Sofia
Year 6
Nirupam Tasmia
Reading Representatives
Our Reading Representatives are a group of pupils from across KS2 who help to promote reading across the school. The children have applied for and gained these roles since they are individuals who demonstrate a passion for and love of reading.
Some of the roles and responsibilities for our Reading Representatives include:
- Recommending books to their class members and other pupils across the school
- Reading to younger children on the playground
- Running lunchtime book clubs
- Tracking and encouraging reading at home for their classes
- Representing the school at reading events
- Helping to plan and run reading enrichment activities across the school, for example World Book Day
Our Reading Representative team is led by Mrs Tysoe, who is always keen to hear from you with new ideas for promoting reading at East Borough and within the local community.
Current Reading Representatives for East Borough:
Leading Reading Reps:
Abigail (Blackman) and Franc (Blackman)
Year 3:
- Morpurgo Class Mickey and Molly
- Strong Class. Kwaku and Amelie
Year 4:
- Raúf Class Evelyn and Keisi
- Rundell Class Jason and Vaishika
Year 5:
- Hardy Class Harry and Olivia
- Jackson Class Amelia-Lily and Krish
Year 6:
– Blackman Class Amarachi and Aarav
– Pullman Class Jessica and Zak
Anti-Bullying Ambassadors
Our Anti-Bullying Ambassadors are a group of pupils from Year 6 chosen to initiate and promote an Anti-Bullying campaign within our school. The children are supportive and responsible members of our community and keen to ensure that bullying does not happen at East Borough.
The children will identify initiatives within the school to support children experiencing bullying and encourage all pupils to become 'upstanders' against the behaviour.
OUR CURRENT ANTI-BULLYING AMBASSADORS ARE:
Eco Council Representatives
