Shoeboxes arrived in time for Christmas!!

Today we had an exciting email. The shoeboxes we sent had arrived at their destination in time for Christmas and in time to make a big difference to some childrens lives. Our shoeboxes went to Belarus, in Eastern Europe.

Here is a link that says "Thank you from Belarus" on the Operation Christmas Child website.
Thank you from Belarus  

(and a big Thank You from us)

Shoeboxes start their long journey!

Thank you to everyone for the amazing response to the shoebox appeal. We received more than we ever have before.

A big thank you to Fiona Lamb of BHS Poole who very kindly provided sacks of shoeboxes when we ran out!


Together we will really have made a big difference to many childrens lives this Christmas.

Well done everyone!!

Anti-bullying leaflet.

Here is a copy of our anti-bullying leaflet.

Click HERE then click 'Download original'
to save or print a copy on your computer.

Anti bullying meeting 16th November.

Minutes
School prayer
everyone present
We welcome Emily to our school council

Agenda.......... Anti bullying campaign

school council agree it would be a good idea to make a leaflet for children explaining what bullying is and what they should do if they feel they are being bullied. We discussed what we can do and what we can write and draw on the front cover and what information should be included.

This years theme is STOP and THINK words can hurt !



A.NY
O.THER
B.UISSNESS

Year 5 are still complaining about the trolleys and they would like there
own
School council agreed they like the new ace points and consequences, but year 6 felt 4 warnings was a little too many for older children who should be behaving anyway!
There was unanimous approval for the new lunchtime activities.
Minutes by Jamie and Jordan.



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Operation Christmas Child.

School council led an assembly launching the Shoe box appeal. Everyone was excited as we watched the DVD of children receiving their presents. This is something we can all do to make a real difference to children's lives.

 

Today we wrapped shoe boxes so that every class could have a box to fill.

 It wasn't easy! But we got there in the end!

If you want to know more about the shoe box appeal please visit

http://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/operation-christmas-child

Meeting 12.10.11

Finley yr 1 Absent.
Everyone else present.

Chair Katie led the prayer.

Mrs Rees congratulated everyone on leading the tours on school open day. Feedback from visitors was very positive.
Jordan and Jamie volunteered to be joint secretaries for School Council.  Thank you boys!

Matters arising.
Y5 Concerned about litter in the playground, nature trail and dens.
Action.
Litter rota to be re established. Samantha and Phoebe to work on this.
Agenda
Shoe box appeal.Should we take part this year?
We watched the DVD.
Action
School Council voted unanimously to give parents and children the opportunity to support this appeal.
We will lead an assembly to launch the appeal.
Chair Katie closed the meeting.

Meeting 28.9.11

School Council minutes   28.9.11 Present
Yr 6 Katie Lambert, Jordan Dear,  Yr 5 Phoebe Upward, Liam Tuck, Yr 4 Samantha Ayriss, Harry Manners, Yr3 Jamie Hall, Molly Carter, Yr 2 Jamie Wood, Millie Tuck Yr 1 Kayleigh and Finley.

Chair person Katie led the school prayer.

Agenda.

·        Network plans for the talent show.

Schools Network Meeting.

On Thursday 6^th October the school councils network will be holding their first meeting to discuss plans for each school to hold their own talent show with the finalists going through to a network final before Christmas.

Action

Mrs. Rees, Katie and Harry will attend.

Matters Arising.

Yr  6. Jordan raised the question, ‘Could more space be made available for football at playtimes?’

School council discussed the question and decided that as KS2 have 2 astro slots a week and KS1 one each that taking the field up with football as well would be unfair. The vote was 9 to 1. Sorry Jordan!

Yr5. Phoebe had been asked to appeal for another lunchbox trolley as sharing with year 4 causes problems at lunchtime and later when children return for their boxes.

We will consult Mr Lavis on this one!

Yr4 Were concerned with behaviour around the summer house. Apparently the stone slab has been lifted and is causing problems.

 School council felt a member of staff needs to be close by at playtimes.

Mrs. Rees thought Mr Bannister might be able to embed the slab a little deeper.

Yr 3 Jamie and Molly were concerned about people rolling and sliding on the hill and getting muddy.

They offered to make a sign to remind children not to do this.

Yr2 Millie and Jamie had been asked to mention the brambles on the nature trail which have been hurting children and have particularly been a problem in cross country.

We will ask the groundsman to look into trimming these back.

Good point yr 2!

Yr2 Had also been asked by Joshua if he could have somewhere safe to leave his bike if he cycled to school with his mum.

We decided to consult Mr Lavis on this one as well!

Chair Katie closed the meeting and thanked everyone for coming.

It's a new year!

This is the new Blandford St Mary School Council.

First meeting,  14.9.11  We discussed the important role the school council plays in contributing the children's voice to decisions made in school. Everyone was very keen to get started!

We elected Katie to be the new Chairperson. Well done Katie!

Meeting 6.7.11

School council have been collecting children's opinions and ideas about improving behaciour at the local park.
Each class felt strongly that we should all be involved in improving the behaviour at the park. The following suggestions were made.

• Children under 7 should have a grown up with them.
• Areas should be split with appropriate age restrictions.
• Areas for older children should have appropriate equipment and full sized goals.
• Funds need to be raised for extra litter bins and a toilet.
• A volunteer or paid park keeper.
• A colourful Park charter explaining the Rights and Responsibilities of anyone using the park.
• Involvement of Community police officers.
• CCTV.

School council will be meeting with Luke Goddard [PCSO] this week to discuss proposals.
For more information see School Council minutes.

Meeting 27.4.11

School council met today and welcomed two new members from Reception. It was lovely to have Sophie and Archie and so important that we have the views and ideas of our very youngest chioldren.
Today Holleigh fed back on the Network meeting. We added our ideas to those already suggested about opportunities to link up with other network schools for activities.
We thought the following ideas should be considered


• Whole network barbecue, hosted by BSM.

• Sports and activities day with each school providing an activity.eg orienteering, or teambuilding games.

• Specialist activities hosted by the Blandford School e.g. cooking, band, art.

• Year groups trips to Moors Valley or the beach.

• We all agreed a Network Talent show would be fun, with each school contributing their favourite acts and the final to be held at TBS.

For more cdetails see minutes of the meeting.

An exciting day for School council.

Today School Council took part in the very important process of interviewing candidates for the position of Acting Deputy Head while Mrs. Harris has her baby.
We saw three candidates and asked them questions about themselves, their teaching career, their approach to managing behaviour and their reasons for wanting to join our school. We really enjoyed talking to all the candidates and felt each had strengths and lots to offer our school. We finished our discussions by asking if they thought they had a sense of humour and what was their favourite joke! We learnt a lot from that one!


Later Emma and Leah as our Rights Respecting Representative attended the Network School Council meeting at ABW  with Mrs, Rees. Today we added Responsibilities to our Blandford community charter. We also discussed opportunities for the network primary schools to join together to share resources and activities.We came up with some great ideas like a whole network fair, a huge talent competition, sports, art, dance, music events or even a giant picnic.......... Watch this space!

23. 03 11 meeting

School council met and discussed the success of Enterprise week. We also discussed ways of improving our outside area. We decided to take responsibility for a grand litter clear up. A rota of S.C. litter pickers will be posted on the notice board. The raised beds also need to be prepared for Spring planting so any volunteers please contact us!   More details see minutes of the meeting.

New pupil booklet update

School council met today to work on our booklet for new children. Jack and Ben were congratulated for their very speedy work in designing and creating an attractive front cover. Well done boys!
See minutes for more details.

A welcome to all new pupils

There have been lots of new children starting at our school recently. Mr Lavis would like us to create a welcome booklet tro give to new children. We thought this was a great idea and had lots of ideas about what children really need to know aboiut a new school from a child's perspective like where the toilets are and what to choose for golden time!
We made a list of all the things we thought should be included and sorted out who would be responsible for each part. See minutes for more infortmation.

New Year!

School Council had our first meeting of 2011 this week. We invited the RRS representatives as our main job was to create a whole school charter. This needs to be similar in style to our class charters which work so well but focussing on the values we feel most important for the character and development of our school.
Holleigh and Oliver will take this Charter to present to the Mayor at the next network meeting to show her hao RRS in action.