Volunteering is an activity that everyone can get involved in and benefit from.  At Woodstock Primary we promote and encourage pupils’ active citizenship and positive contribution to the school and wider community. We offer lots of opportunities for pupils to take on new responsibilities and be involved in successfully supporting the life and work of the school.  These include elected representatives on our Pupil Parliament.  Older pupils can also apply and be interviewed for positions such as Playground Leaders and Library Leaders, and within classes children can volunteer to take on various responsibilities.

We actively promote pupil leadership opportunities, enabling your child to develop valuable communication, organisation and debating skills. Providing these key roles of responsibility are paramount to their development and learning experience.

Involving children as volunteers is very empowering:

• It helps them to develop self-confidence.
• It promotes self-esteem.
• It develops their skills as leaders.
• It involves them in making their own decisions.
• It gives them a voice in the life and work of the school.
• It offers them opportunity to take responsibility
• It enables them to make a positive contribution to the work of the school and wider community.
• It helps to prepares them for the challenges and opportunities of adult and working life.

Pupils tell us that they enjoy the opportunity to volunteer to help make their school an even better place to be, and rising to the challenge that additional responsibility brings.