Community involvement – local, national and world wide

At New Longton, we encourage and support our children to be “advocates” for their community – both local, national and world wide.  This means they champion causes which are special and meaningful to them.  These may be global issues or matters far more personal and closer to home. We have a range of leadership opportunities in school for children, which include Worship Warriors, Eco Councillors, House Captains & Prefects, Librarians, Sports Leaders, Buddies and many more. Within each of these groups, they work at making their school and community better through their actions.

We believe this develops resilience, teamwork, courage, independence and an understanding of the wider world and how they can help make it a better place, enabling our children to flourish. We talk about shining as God’s Light in the world (Matt 5:14) and how small, positive actions can make a big difference when we all agree to do them!

Our areas of change for this year

Our courageous advocacy champions have set the children a homework task, asking them to identify their own areas of injustice.  They then went into classes and worked together to identify one, thinking of the actions we could make to help.  

• Eco Council – Litter in the Community and how we can embed the 3 ‘R’s
• School Council – How to use our grounds to benefit our children, community and as a habitat
• Digital Leaders – To consider school’s use of digital media
• House Captains- Transport and road safety
• Worship Warriors – To lead class worships more and create a charity link to support those less fortunate than us
• Librarians – To be excellent reading role models and get more children reading at lunchtimes
• Active Ambassador – To help all children have active 60 minutes
• History Leaders – To lead reflection on history and contribute to whole school reflection.
• Buddies (Y6 & Rec) – To teach our Buddies how to follow our All Saints’ Way

Examples of our Courageous Advocacy:

• Dementia Charter 2026
  • We have committed to become a Dementia friendly school and each year Year 6 have a visit from South Ribble Dementia Community Connection to teach them about the illness and how all environments can be inclusive to their needs.
  • We have now become part of their Charter list and will ensure that we continue their good work.