Leading Lights
What is the role of a Leading Light?
The Leading Lights (Pupil Representatives) meet fortnightly with Miss Brown, our Assistant Headteacher, to discuss whole school issues and initiatives.
The role of a Ruswarp Leading Light is to represent the views and ideas of their class.
This may include:
- Helping to deliver our collective worship; lighting candles, welcoming people in, saying prayers etc.
- Planning collective worship; particularly for special events such Harvest Festival, Christmas and Easter services.
- Helping to plan Prayer Spaces in school and showing others how to use them
- Setting a fantastic example by always following the school’s Christian Values
- Raising money through school events and deciding what this should be spent on
- Reviewing the impact of school rules
- Discussing any issues in school, including behaviour, safety and wellbeing
- Giving thoughts and feedback on our school curriculum, including trips and visits
- Welcoming visitors into school and showing them around
- Feeding back to their class information about the meetings and bringing to the meetings any issues raised in class.
2025 2026 Leading Lights Members
Following our class elections, here are our Pupil Reps Committee:
Harriet (Chair) Olly, Harry, Katie and Flissy
Our Leading Lights committee recently discussed the role of the Leading Light and talked about some of the activities they would like to do as part of their role during the year. This includes: deciding fundraising events and causes, developing after school clubs, reviewing our school curriculum and pupil views, making community links and projects, keeping safe and any other local, community or global issues our Leading Lights may want to engage with!
During our first meeting, we talked about Dojo prizes for the child in each class who receives the highest number of Dojos per half term. The Leading Lights agreed that they would really like it if the winner could choose an afternoon treat for their class. They thought the winner deserved to choose the treat, but this means that the whole class will enjoy it too – reflecting our school vision of course! (‘Think for Yourself and Act for Others). The Leading Lights felt that the Dojo winner could also receive a badge and certificate in recognition of their achievement! It was a great first meeting and the Leading Lights are going to make a fantastic contribution to Ruswarp.
Harvest Festival
Our Leading Lights did a fantastic job of leading our Harvest Festival in front of our whole school family and friends. We all enjoyed an afternoon of poetry, singing and finding out about bread - from field to flour and eventually a bread loaf. A generous donation of food was given to the Whitby Food Bank.
New Wraparound Club
Our Leading Lights canvassed the whole school to decide how best to enhance our breakfast and after school clubs, making them vibrant, exciting places where all of our children could enjoy spending social time with their peers. This resulted in a wide variety of ideas and suggestions on resources to buy, menus to devise, activities to plan, and more. The ideas were presented to Mrs Isaac, our headteacher, who ensured these views influenced the development of the clubs. Both clubs are now very popular aspects of our school!