Building confidence, capability, and lifelong connections.
Competitions & Awards
Opportunities for young people to demonstrate creativity, communication, leadership and achievement.
Rotary Junior Community Award
A year-long award helping Year 6 children build confidence, learn new skills and become active members of their community through four areas: Community, Social Experiences, Physical Activity and a New Skill.
Community · Social Experiences · Physical Activity · A New Skill
“Every child has the opportunity to succeed and be recognised as a Community Champion.”
Skills & Careers
Connecting young people with local professionals, businesses and mentors to introduce different skills and career paths.
Community Participation
Giving young people meaningful ways to take part in local projects and understand the difference they can make.
How schools can get involved
Schools can introduce the Rotary Junior Community Award to Year 6 pupils with resources, guidance and ongoing support from Rotary. The award runs throughout the academic year, with children completing four sections — Community, Social Experiences, Physical Activity and a New Skill — and recording their progress in a diary. Completed diaries are reviewed before a presentation ceremony where successful participants receive a certificate and Community Champion badge.
Approximate costs. Rotary provides resources, guidance and ongoing support throughout the year.
“As the school-based supervisor for the Junior Community Award, completed by ten of our year 6 pupils, I cannot recommend it enough.
The children were gently pushed out of their comfort zone, communicating with people they may not otherwise have communicated with e.g. attending council meetings; sports club committee meetings; spending time giving companionship to the elderly. They carried out duties in the community, learned new skills, found ways to appreciate and care for their environment and found out about different cultures and religions by spending time with families. All these activities were documented and presented creatively. They carried out various activities as a group, forging friendships that would most likely not have happened otherwise.
I am so proud of their efforts and achievements and feel that, moving into secondary school, it will be the catalyst for them trying new things and hopefully participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award”
Mary Hamilton-Eadie — St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School