Junior Neighbourhood Support With my exposure to so many children at so many schools, I see a huge range in the leadership opportunities that students have.
Have a look at what the children have accomplished in several schools to make their bit of difference to our planet, see what ideas you could also start up in your home and neighbourhood.
They play a major role in the development of how the school feels. There are students who shine in many different ways. I get a buzz from watching a confident student leading the kapa haka group, playing an instrumental solo for the assembly or running the school library over lunchtime. In many cases now, these children were in junior classes when I started my JNS role and they have followed the leadership of students before them to now be at the senior level. They competently reveal how much they have learnt by just being in the school, observing and taking the opportunities to be really involved. It has been great to see and I also see it in the JNS leaders, which reinforces to me how important it is to have these on-going, stable initiatives in schools so that generations of students have a chance to excel to these roles. One area of learning, that schools seek to develop a school culture in, is sustainability and innovation. It is a message that children relate to, they love the natural world, and they know there are fears for our planet. With lockdown we all got more time with nature and it became important for our well-being.
This student created her own personalised recycling stack for the teachers’ staffroom. All the things she has labelled on the pottles can be reused or recycled within the school so a stack like this makes it easy to collect the different items. Doesn’t she look proud! After you have eaten a huge amount of ice cream, just cut out little slots in the containers, put the lids back on and label. This student made one especially for the Hornby Police Station, the top label says ‘Police do good things’. Page 15
