The KS2 Award is a fully resourced leadership and character education programme where pupils have practical opportunities to volunteer and help others in their community.
The Award has strong links to SMSC, British Values, PSHE, Character Education, Citizenship, RE and SIAMS.
Interactive and engaging activities include animated videos, big discussion questions, a community walk and creative challenges to serve others.
After watching footage of otters caught in plastic litter in their local river, Year 6 pupils organised a river clean up project. They spent the day clearing over 20 bin bags of litter from the river and surrounding areas together with parents and members of their local community who came to join in.
"‘The children used brilliant planning and organisational skills to get the project sorted. They developed independence of thought and have made a real difference to their local community."
62 pupils form Richard Coates Primary School recently completed the Key Stage 2 Young Leaders Award, ensuring that their community felt connected during lockdown.
For their community action project, the Young Leaders wrote letters to their local council and made soup to be distributed by a local homeless charity, Rochdale Homeless every week for 6 weeks.
A group of Young Leaders chose to run social action projects around the time of Remembrance Day as part of their Young Leaders Award.
