Student Voice and Leadership

Student Voice​

What is your favourite thing about this school?

"I love being able to make things in Art. It makes me really happy!" - Emmy, Foundation

"My favourite thing is the Harvest Café. I love cooking, and it's a great way to build teamwork and real-life skills."

- Paxton, School Captain

"I love P.E. because of the variety of sports we play. Practising for the carnival helps us use teamwork, make new friends, and build strong connections."

- Jasper, School Captain

"I love Art because it gives me a space to express my own personality through my work."

- Nathan, House Captain

"The Harvest Café is amazing because it helps us learn how to grow plants and cook, giving us lifelong skills from a young age."

- Eve, Care Team Leader & Junior School Councillor

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​What makes a good friend at WPS?

"A good friend is someone who is kind, helpful, and brave enough to stand up for you."

- Grade 2/3 Students

"A true friend is someone you can just be completely comfortable and yourself around."

- Nathan, House Captain

 "A good friend checks in on you and helps you keep moving forward. I still remember doing role-plays in Grade 3 Wellbeing that taught us exactly how to show those good values."

- Evie, Care Team Leader & Junior School Councillor

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How do you have a say in things around the school?

"We can talk to the Junior School Council, and they help us work out how to make our school even better."

- Sunday, Grade 2/3

"As student representatives, we help make decisions for our community. Being part of the 'Change Makers' program is great because we actually get to pitch our ideas and persuade people to help us make real change happen."

- Paxton & Jasper, School Captains

"Being on the Junior School Council allows us to speak directly to other students, find out what needs fixing, and take action to make the school better."

- Eve, Care Team Leader & Junior School Councillor

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How do teachers make the work you do in class interesting?

"We get to do fun investigations and work together with our friends!"

- Ada, Foundation

"We get to pick our own writing topics, which really helps us be more creative and engaged."

- Paxton & Jasper, School Captains

"I love when we take what we are learning in the Harvest Café and get to research it even deeper in our other classroom subjects."

- Nathan, House Captain

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School and Vice Captains

 

What is the best part about Warburton Primary School? 

The fact that it’s a small school. You get to know everyone so well, making it a warm and welcoming environment for everyone. - Jasper

This school prepares us to try our best and be good community citizens- Cruize

 

What kinds of things do you do as school captains? 

Being leaders of Warburton Primary we represent the school at various events. We are proud to be role models in which people look up to, can trust and come to for help. - Paxton

 

What are your goals for Warburton Primary School this year? 

Make it a better place for the years to come- Paxton

Make our school and safe and welcoming place for new students- Jasper

Make sure it's an inclusive environment for all the students and that everyone feels welcome to play together- Cruize

Make sure our facilities and grounds are good quality and well maintained, as well as have lots of hands on, fun learning activities- Logan​​​​​​

​​House Captains

What are you looking forward to in your roles this year?

To teach people new games and run more whole school events. - Hamish

​What sports do you want to get your houses involved in?

Down ball, basketball, soccer, tennis, football, cricket, dodgeball, capture the flag and baseball. - Tobias

​What do you think is good sportspersonship?

Being kind. Having a good game. Being fair. Honesty. - Nathan

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​​Care Team Captains

What do you do as part of your role?​

​I put away sand pit toys, I read out information at assembly, I set up for breakfast club, I help people when they are sad and I get to participate in the Outer Eastern Young Leaders workshops with other leaders around the area- Gustave

​What do you think is important?

​To make people feel included- Evie​

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​​Environment Captains

What do you do as part of your role?

We collect the compost each day from the classrooms and empty them into our compost systems outside.- Sam

What do you think is important?

Because it turns our scraps into healthy soil to grow our food in for Harvest Cafe- Lily

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We hope we can have our new weather station set up soon so we can monitor and collect data about our local weather- Sam

We also want to plan a whole school planting day as part of the 'Ribbons of Green' initiative, after we get our plants delivered- Azi​

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