Pupil Leadership at The Manor
At The Manor we believe in creating a pupil leadership culture where children are involved in the decision making at the school to help everyone flourish. We want our children to be actively involved in school improvement and to breathe life, relevance, purpose and meaning in all that happens at our school.
We strive for opportunities for children to become confident and articulate leaders who can share their views to any audience and apply their leadership skills to real life situations within our community and beyond. We believe in giving the children the opportunity to make a vital contribution to continually improving their school and their learning journey.
We believe that by giving ownership of the school to our children it creates a better school and builds leaders of the future. This belief builds on our Christian values of community, aspiration, love, joy and wisdom.
To allow this to happen, we run weekly Circle Groups involving all the children and staff to allow every child’s voice to be heard. The purpose of Circle Groups is to help develop relationships between children in different classes and year groups, to help everyone know about what is going on in the school and to help the children think about how we can make the school even better. Circle Group meetings are led by our older children and in each group, there are children from Reception to Year 6. In each meeting, weekly news is shared and there is a discussion point about to allow children to reflect, share and contribute to the school. The Year 6s lead the meeting and take minutes.
At the start of each year, our Year 6s write letters of application and attend interviews for key leadership roles in the school. These include:
- House Captains
- Sports Ambassadors
- Computing Leaders
- Worship Council
- Library Monitors
Our Year 6 children are all involved in leading our school lunches where they serve the food, support the younger children, help clear away and act as role models for the school.