Community Champions

Here at London Colney, we believe in creating strong links with our community – locally, nationally and world wide! We aim to be able to support the people around us and give back to our community in any ways that we can, helping us to develop our sense or social responsibility and citizenship.

• Volunteer Readers

   🌟 Community Champions: Our Wonderful School Reader Volunteers 🌟

  At London Colney Primary and Nursery, we are incredibly proud of the partnerships we build with our wider community – and none more so than with our fantastic School Reader volunteers, who give up their time every week to support our children with reading.

  These dedicated individuals are part of the School Readers charity, a wonderful organisation that works closely with schools across the country to improve children’s literacy. Their mission is simple but powerful: to ensure every child can leave primary school able to read well.

  Each week, our volunteers come into school and work one-to-one with children, sharing stories, listening to them read, and helping to build confidence, fluency, and a lifelong love of books. Their presence makes a real difference—not only in helping children to improve their reading skills but also in creating warm, positive interactions that children look forward to.

  We are so grateful for their commitment, warmth, and the valuable time they offer. They are true Community Champions, and we want to celebrate everything they do for our school.

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  If you or someone you know would be interested in becoming a reading volunteer, you can find out more about the charity by visiting https://www.schoolreaders.org. Together, we can make a difference—one story at a time. 📚💛

  

  

  
  

• Christmas Choir

  At the weekend our School choir performed at the London Colney Christmas light switch on. Thank you so much to London Colney Parish for organising it.

  

  
  

• Host Treat

  Our Head Teacher took our hosts on a trip yesterday to DJ Jungles as a special treat for hosting at lunchtimes. The children were so well behaved and kind to other children there…. well done Year 3 Hosts!

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  
  

• Helping to reduce waste

  Over the last few weeks, some of the year 4 children have been collecting plastics from around the school. Once we had filled up a bag, we took 6 children from years 3, 4 and 5 to recycle these items. This is something we will be continuing to do every couple of weeks to help reduce waste.

  

  

  

  
  

• Helping the elderly in the community

  Here at London Colney Primary & Nursery School we are wanting to help the elderly in the community. Every week will be sending a group of children to the Caledon Club to help out with the Lunch Club. This week our Year 6 leadership team went to help out and were amazing.

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  
  

• Peer Tutors

  Over the last few weeks, Year 3 have been very lucky to have Year 5 peer tutors read with us. Year 5 have been trained to use special skills to help Year 3 with their reading.

  Every week we get to have this special time with the peer tutors. Year 3 have really enjoyed this and look forward to it every week!

  Here are some comments from the Year 3 children about reading with their peer tutor:

  “My peer tutor helps me with my reading.” – Rico 

  “My peer tutor helps me with me read tricky words, she is also very funny and kind.” – Ema

  “My peer tutor helps me break down tricky words.” – Harry 

  ” My peer tutor helps me understand words I didn’t know the meaning of.” – Shafayat 

  ” My peer tutor helps me understand what certain words mean in my book.” – Joseph 

  ” My peer tutor helps me work out the of tricky words.” – Salma 

  ” She’s very kind and nice which helps me when I’m reading.” –  Zaynab 

  Here are photos of us reading with our peer tutors:

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  
  

• Exploring the Past and Linking to the Present

  As part of our ‘Community Champions’ work at school, we have made links to Osbourne Court Elderly Home. Our Year 3 class recently wrote letters to the residents, explaining and discussing their experiences of what school is like now. These letters were added to a book and presented to the residents who read them and were extremely happy to hear from some of our children. They wrote back to us to tell us about what their school experiences were like and how schools may have been different in the past. Here you can see some of our letters and responses ….