The School Council is elected by the children themselves and there is 1 representative from each class in the school, including Reception.
Recently, a few class councils had mentioned about rough play on the playground. School Council decided to plan, write and do an assembly about ways to play kindly and gently. Having prepared for the last 4 weeks, we presented our assembly to Years 1 and 2 today. The assembly was great and afterwards 2 children suggested setting [...]
Most of this and the last meeting (on 23/2/10) was spent rehearsing for the ‘Fair Play’ assembly, planned and written by the children. Mr Bunting confirmed that Ms Dixon had agreed to us having assembly time on Tuesday, 9th March. In addition, we worked together to create a question to ask candidates applying for the teaching [...]
School Council met to discuss our 2 main priorities for the Spring term: toilets and kind play. We discussed our concerns about the toilets (cleanliness, broken locks, water on the floor), and decided to let the office know if we spotted any of these problems. That way, they could be sorted quickly. We also started [...]
Mr Bunting greeted School Council and took a photograph of the new group, ready to display in School. We agreed to look at the most common themes from the Class Council meetings. Popular issues Safe and kind play – Several classes were concerned about rough play outdoors. We discussed how School Council could improve this [...]
Good things around the school to celebrate: Lots of happy people so they don’t need the friendship bench so much. The council wanted to make sure everyone knew that the friendship bench is under the tree outside Ms Lewis’ classroom. Does it need a sign, like the one on the playground? Playground markings on the [...]
School Council will take place at 10:25am in Mr Bunting’s classroom on the following dates this half term: Friday 5th June Friday 19th June Friday 3rd July Friday 17th July If due, new School Council reps should be elected before Friday, 5th June. Thanks.
Wow! Lots of business to deal with this week. We only had time to look at notes from 2 class councils. We will start by hearing from other class councils at the next meeting. Good things around the school to celebrate: Having a place to do swapping on Fridays – we are pleased that [...]
Where should we have a swapping area? The classes who responded had similar ideas about where the swapping area should be on Fridays. We have agreed to trial 2 places: Playground: next to the low wall by the adventure playground. Field: near the benches next to the adventure playground. Mr Bunting will let MSAs and [...]
We welcomed the new council members and worked together to let them know about their responsibilities. Mr Bunting fed back to the Council about playground markings. The PTA have set aside £1000 to pay for them and Mr Bunting will be meeting with the PTA on Monday to find out what is going to [...]