What is a Junior Leadership Team?

A Junior Leadership Team is group of students who are elected to represent the views of all pupils and work together to improve their school.  We follow a democratic process to elect the Leaders.  If they wish to become a junior leader the pupils must plan a short presentation explaining why they would be a good member of the team. They then present their views to their class and a secret vote takes place.

Who are the Junior Leadership Team?

At SMPS we have 2 representatives for each class that form part of the Junior Leadership Team. 

What do the Junior Leadership Team do?

The Junior Leadership Team meet staff regularly and discuss issues that are important to the children. They have an agenda which they create, a member of the JLT takes the minutes and another chairs the meeting.

The JLT meet with the governing body regularly to share their work with them.

The representatives feedback information to their classes about what has happened during the meeting and this usually leads to further discussion and debate within classes.   The minutes are taken and distributed by the pupils to each class.

The objectives of the Junior Leadership Team are to:

•  Give pupils the right to say what they think
•  Listen to and consider suggestions made by pupils
•  Allow pupils to present new initiatives and ideas
•  Allow pupils to talk about what is important to them
•  Help the school Senior Leadership Team and governors understand what is important to the children
•  Find out and share what matters and give information to everyone in school
•  Help make our school the very best it can be