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Learning Ambassadors play an important role in the Collingwood school community. The Learning Ambassadors would like you to know a little bit about how they got the role and what it involves.
How do you become a Learning Ambassador?
To become a Learning Ambassador, children who are interested in taking on the role usually make a speech to their class about the reason why they would like to be a Learning Ambassador. Following the British Value of democracy, all of the children vote for their chosen boy and girl in a secret ballot. The boy and girl who get the most votes are the winners and become their class Learning Ambassadors. Usually, children who are awarded the Learning Ambassador role represent their class for half of the school year before the next pair in the class take over.
What personal qualities do Learning Ambassadors have?
“We need to be sensible, respectful and kind.”
“Learning Ambassadors do the right thing.”
“We are helpful and hard working.”
“We treat others how we want to be treated.”
“We think about other people.”
“We always follow the Collingwood REACH values.”
What do we do?
Learning Ambassadors meet on Thursdays before break time.
“In our meetings we talk about ways that we can improve the school and then we take action on it.”
In the spring term of 2026, the Learning Ambassadors’ first job was to run a school meals survey to find out which were the most popular meals each week and to come up with some new menu ideas. The year 6 Learning Ambassadors met with our catering manager, Mrs Chettur, to share the results of the survey. At the time, the Learning Ambassadors said, “We are excited to see what the new dinner menu will look like, as some of our ideas have been included!” In the summer term, they have seen their work come to life, with sausage and mash already a very popular dinner choice across all year groups.
Thinking about how we can look after and improve our school environment is also part of the role. Previous Learning Ambassadors have undertaken projects on recycling and reducing energy waste by turning off lights and screens when the classrooms are empty. These projects have had a long term impact on sustainability.
There are some jobs that they do regularly:
· Recycling of fruit and vegetable snack leftovers to make compost to improve our soil.
· Monitoring of class paper recycling sacks to let teachers know when they need to be changed so that there is always space for recycling.
· Reporting back to the class on Learning Ambassador meeting discussions so that ideas can be shared.
We also have some special Learning Ambassador stickers which are awarded in celebration assemblies on occasions where children in the school have been spotted acting as role models in the school. These are the qualities that Learning Ambassadors are looking out for:
· Great partner and team work
· Thoughtful contributions to class discussions
· Demonstrating improvement, effort, persistence and resilience
· Improved attitudes to learning
· Being incredibly hard working
· Good manners
· Being kind and considerate
· Contributing to the good organisation of the school
In the summer term, the latest Learning Ambassador role has been to work with a parent volunteer to replant the tubs at the school reception with new flowers.
Our school entrance looks so much more colourful after the Learning Ambassadors have been working on it!
The year 6 Learning Ambassadors played an important role in organising the Children's Parliament democracy day. Some of their jobs included giving out ballot papers, checking that the ballot box was safe and being used properly, supervising the voting and collecting classes ready to vote.
They worked hard throughout the day and their contributions particularly impressed Joshua, who visited Collingwood as the Children's Parliament teenage champion.
Learning Ambassadors are also consulting with their classes about ideas for other areas of the school which they would like to develop further.
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