Wrotham Road Primary School
A happy and thriving multicultural school that has a love of learning and a belief that every individual matters.
School Councillors
Why do we have a School’s Council?
The School’s Council is an ideal opportunity for pupils to get more involved in the way the school is run. The School Council benefits the whole school, pupils and teachers, because it provides opportunities for pupils to communicate their feelings as well as influence decisions that are made. Councillors develop skills such as confidence, communication and negotiation. It is the responsibility of each Councillor to ensure that they express both their own views and the views of all the other pupils they represent.
Who can be a member of the School’s Council?
We have an active School’s Council with a boy and girl representing their fellow pupils from Year 1 to Year 6. Each councillor is elected by their classmates at the beginning of the year, after a short presentation explaining why they should be elected.
Our School Council is an important part of our school’s Pupil Voice. Issues are discussed in Class Council Meetings and then the children’s views are brought to the School Council by the representatives. We feel that the school council is an important way to teach children about the importance of democracy and decision-making.
Recent work by the School Council
The School Council have been very busy since being elected in September. They have spoken to their respective classes and gathered information from their peers with regards to what the children love about the school and what they would like to improve.
They have also spoken to their classes and given pupil voice feedback regarding the new scheme of work the school is using for learning numeracy – Maths No Problem, and also about Behaviour for Learning within their classrooms.
The councillors have helped to support various charities over the year by organisning and designing posters to advertise Christmas Jumper Day and Red Nose Day.
They are holding a Bring and Buy Toy sale, along with the Eco Councillors, to raise money for new equipment for the school, at the end of the year.
Last year the council raised money for books that can be used in the playgrounds. Thanks to the School and Eco Councillors, each playground now has a large box full of fantastic new books for children to access.
School Council Report March 2022
The School Council had a formal meeting with Gill from the catering company, Emma the Cook and Andrya the Trust Business Manager from TPAT to discuss the winning competition designs for the canteen. The school Council have decided to keep the name of the canteen the same as it is sentimental to the school. The colours decided for the school canteen are house colours blue, red, green and yellow.
The winning designs.
The cartoon fruit are going to be used on the multicoloured backgrounds and the font will be used to display a healthy eating message and the canteens name, the designs have now been sent to the company to create prototype images for us to discuss and decide upon. Our next focus is the school dinner menu. The Council have been tasked to design a new menu to encourage more children to have school dinners. Each Council member will ask their class what food they would like to see on the menu and reminding them to remember the main food groups. This information will then be fed back to Gill at the catering company.
The School Council are also looking at ways to fund raise for Ukraine. We got together to discuss ways we can support and help Ukraine. The School Council came up with some fantastic ideas. Our first quick and easy fund raiser is a non school uniform day on the last day of term wearing blue and yellow. We are then going to look at holding a bake sale next term and finally a school fete in the final term.
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