Have you completed our annual survey yet?

If you have – thank you. We’ll spend time over the next few weeks considering what you’ve said (and making sure we pass on any compliments).

If you haven’t, there’s still time! We’ll close the survey at 6pm today. Complete the Scholes (Elmet) Primary survey here.

The main part of this week’s message comes from our Junior Leadership Team…

Junior Leaders

We are the Junior Leadership Team and we are very pleased to be able to share our experiences from this year. At the start of the year, our classes elected us to represent them at the JLT meetings and make positive changes for our school.

We strive to be great role models who are helpful, respectful and responsible. We listen to the views of our peers and make important decisions on behalf of the school and the children. The children in class use the voice boxes to make suggestions and we take these to our meetings. We vote for our decisions democratically and these result in changes and actions. We aim to make our school even more happy and healthy and enjoyable for all children. Pupil voice is definitely at the centre of our school.

This year, we took on the role of reviewing the school dinner menus with our catering staff. We made sure that the menus were healthy and contained plenty of fruit and vegetables. We fed back that the children really enjoy the salad bar and this is available on more occasions now.

One of our early year tasks was to select our school charity. Each JLT member led a vote in their classes for their favourite charity. These nominations were brought to a meeting and we took a democratic vote. As a result, The Willow Foundation became our charity this year.

One of our favourite activities this year has been generating donations for our School charity and other local and national charities. We are often seen at the school gate shaking our buckets, collecting donations. We successfully raised £416.89 for Children in Need and £324.21 for Red Nose Day – we couldn’t do this without for generosity or support – thank you.

Later this year, we had the privilege of selecting a theme for the local village show. We generated lots of ideas from music to wildlife. After a democratic vote, we settled on a ‘Spectacular Sport’ theme. The children in each class will spend time creating some art work to represent this theme, either around their favourite sport or a sporting hero.

As a JLT, we aim to promote a happy and healthy school and we have a real passion for ensuring everybody is active. As such, we took on the role of discussing how the zoned areas (different areas containing different physical activities) on the playground would be organised at lunchtimes during the winter months to make sure we are all safe.

In September, it will be time for the new JLT election. It will be time to allow others to enjoy the exciting challenge of representing our school and making positive and worthwhile changes. As ever, we are very proud of our achievements this year.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us in our roles to make our school an even better place to learn.

Vacancy

We’ve a vacancy for a Senior Administrator at Moortown Primary. Hours are negotiable but around 23.75 hrs per week, term time plus two days (11.45am – 4.30pm, Monday to Friday). Read more about the post.

Finally this week…

Happy and healthy highlights

Last week, 16 children in Key Stage 2 took part in an orienteering event at Temple Newsam. They used their geographical and PE skills to help them navigate the park and enjoyed a happy and healthy time doing so! This was a great opportunity for the children to develop their communication skills as they had to discuss different coordinates and work out how to find particular locations. The children used their map reading skills and compass skills to achieve this.

Well done, everyone.

And another well done…

Well done to our fantastic Scholes A and B football teams on their final game of the tournament.

Thank you also to FOSP for providing the football kits and to parents for supporting the children during all weather conditions throughout the year.