Pupil Ambassadors
At Emerson Valley, our Pupil Ambassadors provide our children with meaningful opportunities to build responsibility, develop leadership, and practice accountability in everyday school life. As ambassadors, pupils take on clear tasks that support our school community. See below for current ambassador roles.
House Captains
1 Per Year
Purpose:
House Captains help bring their house team together. They encourage teamwork, celebrate achievements, and help make sure everyone feels valued and included.
A great House Captain leads by example and helps others shine! ⭐🏆💙💚❤️💛
Job Roles:
- Encourage your house team to do their best in school events and competitions.
- Help younger children feel welcome and included in house activities.
- Share important information and announcements with your house team & children across the school.
- Be a positive role model by demonstrating our school values every day.
- Motivate and inspire others to work hard, show kindness, and try their best.
- Support and encourage team members during sporting events, challenges, and competitions.
- Listen to the ideas and opinions of children in your house and help share them with teachers.
- Help organise and lead house meetings, celebrations, and special events e.g. The Merevalley Shop/ House Rewards
- Represent your house with pride and show excellent behaviour at all times.
- Counting the House Points weekly
School Council
1 Per Class
Purpose:
School Council Members help make sure every child's voice is heard. They work together to share ideas, improve our school, and create a happy, safe, and successful learning environment for everyone.
Your ideas can help make a real difference in our school! 🌟🏫💬
Job Roles:
- Organise, promote & announce Staff gold awards
- Listen to the ideas, opinions, and concerns of children in your class.
- Represent your classmates and share their views during School Council meetings and minute-take
- Help come up with ideas to improve our school.
- Share important information from School Council meetings with your class.
- Be a positive role model by following our school values and setting a good example.
- Help make sure everyone feels included, respected, and valued.
- Support school events, charity fundraisers, and special projects e.g. afternoon/fete/cake sales
- Work with each other to make plans and solve problems.
- Listen carefully to others and respect different opinions.
- Help make positive changes that benefit everyone in our school community.
Reading Ambassador
1 Per Class -Year 3-5 and 2 Per Class Year 6
Purpose:
Reading Ambassadors help create a school where reading is enjoyed by everyone. They inspire others to discover new books, build confidence as readers, and develop a lifelong love of reading.
A great Reading Ambassador opens the door to new adventures through books! 📚✨🌟
Job Roles:
- Tidying and organising classroom book corners
- Creating reading posters, displays and book recommendations
- Maintaining and sorting indoor and outdoor libraries
- Reading with younger pupils and supporting buddy reading sessions
- Helping younger children choose suitable books
- Returning and organising library books
- Promoting reading challenges and competitions
- Sharing favourite books in assemblies or classes
- Supporting World Book Day and other reading events
- Monitoring the condition of books and reporting damaged items
- Collecting pupil suggestions for new books
- Helping to create reading trails, quizzes or story-based activities around the school
- Older ambassadors take small groups to the library (timed) to support in choosing books.
- Help promote reading events such as World Book Day, book fairs, and reading challenges.
Antibullying Ambassador
Year 5 & 6 - 8 Per Year Group
Purpose:
Anti-Bullying Ambassadors help make sure our school is a safe, friendly, and welcoming place for everyone. They encourage kindness, support positive relationships, and help children understand that everyone deserves to be treated with respect.
A great Anti-Bullying Ambassador helps everyone feel safe, valued, and included. 💙⭐😊
Job roles:
- Help children feel welcome, included, and valued.
- Encourage kindness, respect, and positive friendships across the school.
- Listen to children who may be worried or upset and help them find support from a trusted adult.
- Promote positive ways to solve disagreements and encourage children to treat each other fairly during social times.
- Be a role model by showing kindness, respect, and good behaviour every day.
- Help raise awareness about bullying and the importance of being a good friend.
- Support events such as Anti-Bullying Week and friendship activities and help run competitions
- Work with the other ambassadors and staff to share ideas that help everyone feel safe and happy at school.
- Encourage children to speak up if they are worried about themselves or someone else.
- Help create a school where everyone feels they belong.
- Reporting issues to Miss Roche/Mrs Avola
- Promote our campaign of ‘Be an upstander not a bystander’.
Eco Warrior
1 Per Class
Purpose:
Eco Warriors help our school become a better place for everyone. By working together, we can protect our planet, reduce waste, save energy, and create a cleaner, greener future.
Every small action can make a big difference! 🌍💚
Job roles:
- Turn off lights/whiteboards in classrooms when not in use
- Remind others to save energy by switching off lights, computers, and other equipment when they are not needed
- Encourage everyone to reduce, reuse and recycle
- Help keep our school grounds tidy by organising litter picks and promoting respect for our environment.
- Help look after the environment in and around our school
- Help reduce waste by encouraging people to use resources carefully e.g. paper use
- Support projects such as gardening, planting flowers, growing vegetables, or creating habitats for wildlife
- Share eco-friendly ideas with classes and staff.
Work together to plan activities and special events such as Earth Day, Recycling Week, or Walk to School Week.
Wellbeing Warrior
1 Per Class
Purpose:
Wellbeing Warriors help everyone feel safe, happy, and supported at school. They encourage kindness, positive friendships, and healthy habits, helping to create a school community where everyone can do their best and enjoy learning.
A great Wellbeing Warrior helps others shine by spreading kindness, positivity, and care. 🌟😊💙🌈
Job roles:
- Welcome new pupils to class and be their buddy
- Be a friendly person when others are feeling sad
- Encourage children to be kind to one another
- Make posters on well being
- Being aware of classmates well being rating, check in with them and navigate help
- Help promote happiness, kindness, and positive mental wellbeing across the school.
- Encourage children to be supportive, respectful, and caring towards one another.
- Be a good listener and help children find support from a trusted adult when they need it.
- Welcome children who may be feeling lonely or left out and help them feel included.
- Encourage others to talk about their feelings in a safe and positive way.
- Support wellbeing events and activities that promote healthy minds and bodies such as Friendship Week, Random Acts of kindness day/link into Anti Bullying
- Encourage healthy habits, such as being active, getting enough rest, and taking care of yourself.
- Share ideas that help make our school a calm, happy, and welcoming place.
- Be a positive role model by showing resilience, kindness, and respect every day.
- Help celebrate what makes each person unique and special.
Play Leader
6 Per Year Group
Purpose:
Play Leaders help create a playground where everyone feels happy, safe, and included. They encourage friendship, teamwork, and active play, helping children to enjoy their breaktimes and make positive memories.
A great Play Leader helps everyone have fun, make friends, and enjoy playing together! ⚽🌟😊🤝
Job Roles:
- Organise and lead fun games and activities during breaktimes and lunchtimes.
- Encourage children to join in and make sure nobody feels left out.
- Help younger children learn new games and play fairly with others.
- Suggest exciting activities that everyone can enjoy.
- Be a positive role model by showing kindness, teamwork, and respect.
- Encourage children to solve small disagreements calmly and fairly.
- Help children stay active and enjoy being healthy through play.
- Welcome children who may be feeling lonely and invite them to join games.
- Help look after playground equipment and make sure it is used responsibly & tidied away
- Work with other Play Leaders and staff to make playtimes enjoyable for everyone.
- Help out at Sports Days at Infants Schools
- Run sporting events for infant schools
- Attend Young Leader training
- Train play leaders in Years 3-5
Prefect
2 Per Class - 1 Boy and 1 Girl
Purpose:
Prefects help make our school a positive place where everyone feels safe, happy, and ready to learn. They lead by example, help others, and show what it means to be a responsible member of our school community.
Great Prefects don't just wear a badge, they make a difference every day! ⭐🏫💙
Job Roles:
- Be a positive role model for younger children and your classmates.
- Help make everyone feel welcome and included.
- Support teachers and staff with jobs around the school.
- Represent the school with pride at events and special occasions.
- Share ideas and help improve our school community.
- Help promote good behaviour by showing kindness, respect, and responsibility.
- Support younger pupils when needed and help them feel confident.
- Help children move safely around school during busy times by holding doors open and reminding everyone to walk on the left
- Assist with school events, celebrations, and fundraising activities.
- Show our school values in everything you do.
- Give tours to visitors
Junior Park Ranger
Year 6 - 8 In Total
Purpose:
Junior Park Rangers help make our school a beautiful, healthy, and welcoming place for people, plants, and wildlife. They encourage others to care for the environment and help create outdoor spaces that everyone can enjoy.
A great Junior Park Ranger helps nature flourish and inspires others to care for the world around them! 🌳🌼🐞🌍✨
Job Roles:
- Parks Trust link and reading out bulletin in class and taking part in activities in and out of school
- Observe and learn about nature, sharing interesting facts with other children e.g. Bird watching/Butterfly count
- Help care for our school grounds and keep outdoor areas looking their best e.g. Litter picking
- Ensuring field and outside are clean and tidy
- Be a positive role model by looking after the environment and treating outdoor spaces with care.
- Help promote activities that make our school greener and more wildlife-friendly.
- Help protect wildlife by creating and caring for habitats for birds, insects, and other animals.
Allergy Ambassador
2 Per Year
Purpose:
An Allergy Ambassador helps our school be a safe, kind, and inclusive place for everyone, including children who have allergies. They help others understand allergies and encourage safe choices so that all pupils can learn, play, and enjoy school confidently.
A great Allergy Ambassador helps keep everyone safe and inspires others to understand, respect, and support people with allergies! 🥜💙🌟🤝✨
Job Roles:
- Help raise awareness about allergies across the school.
- Remind pupils about allergy-safe rules in a friendly and respectful way.
- Support Allergy Awareness events and activities.
- Help create posters, displays, or assemblies about staying safe with allergies.
- Encourage kindness and inclusion towards pupils with allergies.
- Share important allergy safety messages with your class.
- Tell an adult if you notice something that could put someone with an allergy at risk