What is the School Council?

A new school council is elected each academic year, with every class from Reception to Y6 nominating representatives. This creates a central group that speaks on behalf of the whole school and makes decisions about school life. We value the opinions of our pupils and the School Council gives children a forum to share these opinions with the Headteacher and other members of staff, allowing for change and to make their school experience even better.

Our School Councillors

Acorn Class - Tommy

Cherry Class - Lenny-Ray and Ivy

Willow Class - Hazel and Ruby

Oak Class - Chase and Carmella

Minutes

Monday 28th November 2024

•  Yr R – Marnie
• Yr 1 – Lenny-Ray
• Yr 2 – Ivy
• Yr 3 – Hazel
• Yr 4 – Ruby
• Yr 5 – Chase - absent
• Yr 6 – Carmella 

Agenda – 

• Welcome - How things are going so far this year
•  Charity work
• Playtime
• After school clubs
• Pupil questionnaire
• AOB

Welcome - 

Shared what they had enjoyed so far this year

o    Learning in maths
o    Stone age activities
o    Learning about WW1 – quite inspiring
o    Art – learning new techniques

Better than last year 
o    more people are joining in games
o    people are kinder to each other – sharing and caring for others
o    listening and learning has improved- people are taking more pride in their work
o    people are helping each in learning time

Charity – 
•    Cherry – raised money last term for porchlight
•    Willow – someone from the charity to visit, conducted an interview to gain their wishes for fund raiding
•    Oak - created a class cook book, before Christmas they will be running stalls to sell items.
•    Acorns – in the process of coming up with ideas.

Playtime –
•    Lots of change, new fun activities – which is a positive
•    Improved behaviour
•    More resources allows people to be more imaginative
•    People are happier
•    More things to play with – people aren’t being left out of games.
•    Waiting on the kitchen to be built

After school clubs- 
•    New name for slipper club – collect class ideas and feedback to Mrs Button
•    Slipper club has improved – Mrs Button is making fun.
•    Suggestion box for after school clubs
•    Library club, Cooking club, Art club, Science club
•    Certificates for after school club

Pupil questionnaire – 
•    School council to come up with questions on well-being
•    Create a questionnaire
•    Get classes to complete
•    Review at next school council meetings

School trips ideas – 
•    Science museum
•    Visit other schools
•    Natural history museum
•    Art gallery

AOB:
•    Make posters about kindness
•    Plant trees on the field for shade in the summer
•    Fund raising for new benches
•    Calm zone on the playground
•    Flowers around the scrap play benches

School Council Meeting - 23rd September

Agenda –

• Welcome, roles and responsibilities
• Start of the year
• New ideas
• AOB

Welcome -

• Introduction of newly nominated class representative
• Discussed the role of the school council
• Shared ideas of improvements and their impact from previous years’ school council.

Start of the year –

• Children like the new outside areas- sand pit, village, garden areas.
• New toilets are a huge improvement!
• They are happy and settled in their new classes
• Like how Opal play has been introduced at playtime now

New ideas –

• Talked about possible new after school clubs – tennis, basketball, golf, bird watching.
• Forest school – new fish in the ponds, improvements to the fire area, develop animal shelter
• Certificates – New certificates for After school club / Forest School

AOB:

• School council badges
• Harvest – children to design a poster to be displayed asking for donations for the Rainbow centre.