Junior Leadership Team (JLT)

Our wider achievement at assembly has been running for some weeks now. and we have a real variety of talents being shown. It’s fantastic and we hope to continue with the wider achievements at assembly.

We have recently had a change in our upper playground with our games of football, due to several arguments between pupils. The JLT did a survey to see if pupils thought football should be banned or not and why. There was a variety of answers with most people wanting it to be allowed in the playgrounds but with a large number also saying they didn’t like when they got hit with the balls. So the JLT listened to this feedback and met with playground staff and Mrs Lowden to come up with a plan. We changed how football is played and where it is played and it is now coned off in a certain area in the big playground and we agreed that we would trial it not being played on a Wednesday so that pupils had the chance to use this playground space for other acitvities. Mrs Lowden also spoke with our Junior Health and Wellbeing Team who are going to do an audit of playground resources and together we will work out the best plan for moving forward to ensure a happy playtime 🙂 

Here is our upper class interviews! Mrs Lowden was very impressed at the amount of time and preparation these candidates put into their interviews. It was a tough decision for her.

Here are some pictures from our interviews!                                          Here are primary 2 and 3! Mrs Lowden was very impressed by the quality of the answers of our youngest pupils and saw some future stars in the interviews! 🙂

This is our new JLT for  2019/2020!                                                                   We hope to achieve more with our new JLT team!

This is our new JLT for 2019/2020!

This year we hope to achieve more with our JLT group.

This is our primary 7 JLT leading their first meeting!

A wonderful group of young people ready to be the pupil voice of our school and drive forward school improvement. Congratulations to all our JLT members. 

Today we met to discuss various agenda items that we had taken back to our class after the previous meeting.  The first of these was what charity the pupils in our school wanted to donate £100 to.  At the last meeting we had narrowed this down to 4 possibilities and the classes voted and the majority of children decided they would like to donate £100 to a local charity supporting people with cancer. We will now get a cheque for £100 and the Pupil Council will hand this to the Maggies Centre in Dundee.

The Reps also fed back that their peers were delighted at the prospect of getting tracks painted on the playground and scooters being bought for all ages and stages and that this was a great use of the money raised.  Mrs Lowden explained that the tracks were being painted during the April holidays and the scooters would hopefully be purchased next week. P7 PC reps are going to put together a letter for Halfords asking if it would be possible to donate some helmets or discount our scooters as we are buying so many.

Steve from Play on Wheels came in to discuss with our council the ‘Open Playground Initiative’ which is being piloted in our school after the holidays. Steve explained that this would involve opening our school gates every Wednesday afternoon 3.30-5pm and allowing free play for all children in our school. This event is not run by our school but simply makes use of our school grounds and allows our families to come and play together.  Steve asked us what activities/games/resources we would like to see at this ‘play event’ and we gave him lots of great ideas. We all agreed that we would encourage our friends and peers to make use of this great opportunity for outdoor play and creativity and many of us agreed we would like to come along too.

This week at our meeting we had lots to discuss. Mrs Lowden asked us to brainstorm some questions that we would like to ask the rest of our peers about school. These questions will be used to put together a Pupil Survey for every pupil in our school and then Mrs MacPhail and Mrs Lowden will look at the results and use them to improve our school. We were also asked to come up with 4 charities that we could take back to our classes and vote on which one we will donate £100 to (from funds raised at Christmas). We updated our council on how things were going in our classes with the new Reading for Enjoyment initiative and agreed we would check in at the end of this term to see have we made an improvement in this area.  We brought all our questions/suggestions from our peers to the meeting and these were all answered/discussed and left for us to feed back to our classes.