Investors in Pupils
At Bacon Garth we have been recently renewed our Investors in Pupils (IIP) award in 2026, which we initially achieved in 2018.
The IIP award helps pupils better understand their school, the staff and the school budget. IIP supports pupils by setting individual and class targets, helping children understand how staff can help them, how the school spends its money and also how they, as pupils, can make a difference.
Individual and class targets serve as a useful reminder to pupils about what they need to do to help them do well at school.
We have introduced a Friendship Buddy scheme whereby our nominated Friendship Buddies make sure that all children are happy and have someone to play with on the playground.
We now have around fifty young first aiders too, who have undergone training over the years. They support our adult first aiders around the school in dealing with some of the first aid in school and this will be another great opportunity for our children to take on additional responsibility and grow in maturity.
We are proud and very grateful to our pupils who give up much of their spare time to help make our school a better place for everyone and to extend their fellow pupils' understanding not just about our school community but also about other global issues.
Other roles that our year 6 children excel at include house captains, class monitors, litter pickers, recycling monitors, ICT monitors, sports leaders and register monitors.
Members of our School Council are elected by their classmates (two school councillors are elected from each class) and are fundamental in providing a pupil voice within school as representatives of their peers' thoughts and ideas.