Welcome to our School Council
Children are elected from classes all around the school, and the school council is designed to provide an opportunity for them to be directly involved in general issues that affect the school. These issues can be wide-ranging and can be initiated by staff or pupil groups. During the school council meetings, council members would typically discuss things like improvements to school grounds; what activities to do on Sports Day, arranging tours of the school for guests and visitors and lots more.
Contributing to our British Values agenda in school is also the role of our School Council. Values such as ‘Democracy’, ‘Freedom of Speech’ and ‘Respecting the views of others’ all play a crucial part in our School Council process.
Our job is to get things done in our school and we help make decisions about things we would like, such as:
- Where to go on Educational visits and why..
- What activities to do on Sports Day…
- Whether we should have iPads and iPad Mini’s and why…
Look at our toilets – did you know, some of our previous School Councillors decided on them!?
School Council meetings are held with Mrs Wilkinson (our Deputy Headteacher) once every half-term. At our recent meeting, we discussed planned school improvement projects and put forward ideas to make our playground more interesting and engaging, including raising money for a Reading Shed/ Outside Library on the playground! We also complete regular tours of school and around the EYFS outdoor area. We particularly like the stage area to improve the children’s speaking and listening skills and also the English Shed with all the equipment to encourage writing!
Our School Council has an annual budget of £500 to spend on supporting our School Improvement Priorities.
For our Christmas Performances, we planned and organised a cake and biscuit stall. We raised over £150 which will be used to support our efforts in planning further school improvements.
“We are your School Councillors! We are here to make a difference!”
