handing over the blog

At the school council meeting today, Olivia and I (Josie) took over responsibility of the school council blog.
Minutes of the meeting 23.11.15
Everyone present.
School prayer, led by Ronnie(the chair person.
Agenda

• matters arising
• training on the blog

Riley,Molly and Keeley brought their posters for the buddy bench.

Playground equipment was discussed,it was decided that before anymore is purchased children need to be reminded to respect the equipment that we have already.We decided school council could talk to the children about this.

minutes by Olivia and Josie.

Minutes of the meeting 16.11.15

Darcy and Gracie absent, evryone else present
The School Prayer
Agenda

• Report for Governors
• Children in Need Counting the money 

We discussed the actions of School Council this year so far. We highlighted the impact the School Council is having on us, the school, the community and the wider world. It is clear that everyone on the Council feels proud to be representing the children's voice. All are keen to make a positive difference to the lives of others and feel they are benefiting personally by developing skills of listening, communicating, discussing, resolving problems and devising creative solutions and plans.
A report was compiled for the School governors.

AOB
Y5 School Council feel that the children's voice is often more influential than adults! Josie felt it would be a good idea to put messages from School Council in the School Newsletter. She would like the issues of head lice and parking to be addressed straight away.
Y5 Kieran has been saddened by the tragic events in Paris this weekend. He felt it would be nice to hold a minutes silence just to show solidarity with the people of France.
Y4 Would like to see a more developed buddy bench and quiet sitting area for playtime. Everyone was keen to produce posters for the Buddy Bench.

Finally Ronnie and Keeley counted out the Children in Need money and found we had raised an amazing £162.26.

Minutes of the meeting 19.10.15

Everyone present

Ronnie led the school prayer.

Agenda
Feedback from School Council representatives on Parents open morning.
Plans for after half term

Ronnie and Keeley fed back on the important job they did this morning showing prospective parents around the school. They said they felt proud talking about the school and had assured the new parents that it is a good school and children feel safe and happy, and that the teachers are kind!
Parents commented on how spacious the school is, they loved the library, the Collective Worship board, and the house point system.

Plans for after half term.
Poppy appeal
Children in Need   Olivia had a good idea......Bring your teddy to school day !
Anti bullying poster and leaflet
Entrance hall display on a day at BSM.

AOB
Toilets have improved! 
Parking has not. Several members said that careless parking was worrying them.
We discussed what we should do and felt that one more warning should be given in the news letter and then if it doesn't improve we will have to involve the community police.

The meeting closed and Ronnie thanked everyone for coming.

Minutes of the meeting 5.10.15

Ronnie welcomed everyone and led the school prayer.

All present except Keeley.

Agenda.
Update on Macmillan Coffee morning
Children in Need
Requests from classes

Ronnie reported we made £106. 97, so well done everyone.
Josie and Olivia looked up the date of Children in Need this year, Friday 13th November. We discussed various ideas for raising money: wrist bands, cake sale, unwanted toy sale, pyjama day, super hero day.
We will look into these ideas.

AOB.
Ronnie, Kieran and Riley are very concerned at the problem with the boys toilets at the moment. We discussed this at some length.
Action. We will design an appeal for KS2 Council reps to take back to their classes explaining our concerns and asking boys please to take responsibility because this issue is upsetting for everyone.

Ronnie thanked everyone for coming.

Our Macmillan Coffee Morning.

On Friday September 25th we held our coffee morning as part of the World's Biggest Coffee Morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer nurses.
We had a wonderful time as well as raising a lot of money for this important charity.

 

 

 

We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who came to the coffee morning and to those who baked cakes and helped to set up and serve.

Thank you!

 

 

Minutes of the meeting 21.9.15.

All School council members present.

Ronnie led the School prayer

Agenda
School Council;. Our role?
Macmillan Coffee morning.

First we discussed exactly what the role of School Council is to be in school this year. Finally we came up with this list!

•  To find out the ideas and views of our classmates
•  To bring ideas to School council for discussion
• To take our best ideas forward and act as a link between children and management of the school.
• To represent the children of our school when decisions are being made that affect us all.
• To think of ways we can improve our school.
• To ensure the school is safe for everyone.
• To help establish the Rights Respecting School Charter throughout the school
• To welcome visitors and show them around our school
• To raise money for the school
• To raise money for charities, both in our community and the wider world
• To make sure everyone has the opportunity to'Be the Best That They Can Be!'

Macmillan Coffee morning.

We decided that Ronnie would introduce himself and explain the role of School Council. Then, every member will introduce themselves. Finally Keeley will tell everyone about how the money raised will help fund the amazing work done by Macmillan Cancer nurses.Cakes will then be served by School Council members. Left over cakes will be plated up and sold for a pound a plate at the end of the day.

Ronnie thanked every one for coming.

New School Council for 2015/ 2016

Hello Everyone!
I am very pleased to present the new
                                  School Council 2015/2016
Year 6  Ronnie and Keeley
Year 5  Kieran,  Olivia and Josie
Year 4  Molly and Riley
Year 3 Gracie and Oliver
Year 2 Hollie and George
Year 1  Darcy and Calum


Minutes of the meeting 14.9.15.
Everyone was congratulated for being elected, and we briefly discussed the important role the council has in bringing the children's voice to the management of our school.

Agenda

• Election of positions of responsibility
• Photos
• Macmillan Coffee morning

Ronnie was elected unanimously as Chairperson and Keeley as Vice Chair.
Josie was voted in as Technical Support and Olivia as secretary.

Photos were taken. These will be displayed in the classrooms with a scribble board so that anyone can write any issues they would like School Council to address.

The School Council voted unanimously to support the Macmillan Coffee Morning which raises money to help fund the wonderful Macmillan nurses who support people and their families living with cancer.
The Coffee Morning will be held after Collective Worship on Friday September 25th.
Keeley, Ronnie, Josie, Kieran and Olivia volunteered to make posters.
Mrs.Rees thanked everyone for coming.

Minutes of the meeting 26.6 15

Members present
Henry, Jodie, Quinn, Amelie, Lois, Nathaniel, Dominic, Emily, Lloyd, Ellie, Ruben, Neve, Callum, Ruby.

School Prayer.
Led by Henry.

Agenda

• Update on the collection for Nepal

School council representatives have been asked to bring the following important issues to the meeting.

• Parking
• Dens

• Collection for Nepal. The final amount raised by the trackathon for Nepal was more than £1,600! This money was sent straight to the Nepal Emergancy fund and is now helping people to rebuild their lives. Well done to everyone involved, you have made a huge difference to the lives of people in need.

• Parking.   Several school council representatives have been approached as children are very concerned at the manner in which cars are being parked in and around the school at the beginning and end of the school day. Members reported having seen cars parked on the yellow lines and even on the roundabout!

Quite rightly, children are worried for their safety in crossing the roads at these time. Council also heard that children who wanted to walk to school do not feel safe to do so, with drivers behaving irresponsibly around the school entrances.
Action
After much heated discussion, school council have agreed to put up signs to remind drivers to consider the safety of the children whilst parking. A simple logo will be designed that can also be put into the newsletter. It was also felt that someone with authority from the school or police should be involved in policing the area.

• Dens   School council members felt that the dens are still an area where behaviour is poor. Many felt that duty staff were often distracted by children needing help and then others take advantage by going into the dens.

Action
Many ideas were discussed. One suggestion to take forward to next year was that staff could be supported by a group of responsible children, possibly peer mediators.
A more immediate solution, however, was that the ares should be separated off more securely as the ribbons are too easily ignored. Again signs will be made to remind children of the rules (Emily and Lois to do)

A.O.B.
Football.- A request was made that football could be allowed again in the astro turf.
This was discussed and Council agreed that this part of the summer term should be for tennis, as it is an opportunity for non football lovers to enjoy their sport. It was also noted that tennis is much less dominated by the boys. It was suggested, however, that maybe as everyone is on the field a ball could be used on the playground. Mrs. Rees will look into the safety of this.

End of term celebrations
A request was made for a whole school picnic. It was agreed, however, that the beech trip is in fact a whole school picnic and that this is a truly special end of term celebration. Any classes wishing to do more than this can discuss with their own teacher.

Mrs Rees thanked everyone for their contributions.
Date of next meeting     Friday 3.7.15.

Trackathon Success!

School council would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all the children and their sponsors for the amazing response to our challenge to raise money for Nepal.
So far we have raised over a thousand pounds, which has gone straight to the disaster fund, and there is still money coming in!
                           

 

                                    Well done everyone!

Minutes of meeting 30.4.15

Working together to make a difference.

An emergency meeting was called today to discuss the earthquake crisis in Nepal.

Jodie chaired the meeting in the absence of Henry.

Most children had heard of the earthquake and the terrible conditions that the people in Nepal are living in at the moment. We, the school council, felt strongly that we would like to raise money to help provide emergency care for these people.
Several fund raising strategies were discussed but we decided on a sponsored run around the running track. After some discussion, we decided YR should try for 2 laps, KS1, 4 laps, and KS2,  6 laps.
The organisation of this event was discussed and a letter to parents and carers, drafted.
We also designed a sponsor sheet for children to take home and collect sponsors.
It was agreed that each class would organise their own event during the week beginning 14.5.15.
Mrs. Rees thanked everyone for their enthusiasm and quick thinking.

Minutes of the meeting 10.3.15

PresentHenry, Jodie, Quinn, Amelie, Lois, Nathaniel, Dominic, Emily, Ellie, Neve, Ruben.Ruby and Callum.

Henry led the school prayer.

Agenda
Spending the enterprise fair money!

We achieved an amazing profit of £333.00 at the enterprise fair! This gives us about £165 for each key stage.
We broused the catalogues for trikes and scooters first. Unfortunately, the trikes cost £199 each and so were too expensive. Then we spotted a special offer of four scooters for the price of three, at a total of £149.97. This looked like a good buy!
The goal posts requested by Key Stage 2 were a bit trickier. Altrhough Henry found some at £88.95 we decided we would take expert advice on this before we go any further.

AOB
No issues arising

Minutes of the meeting 27.1.15.

Present
Henry, Jodie, Quinn, Amelie, Lois, Nathaniel, Dominic, Emily,  Ellie, Neve, Ruben.Ruby and Callum.

Henry led the school prayer.
Agenda
Welcome to our new members from Reception class.
Request for consideration of trikes from Mrs. Harris.

We discussed if we felt the school should pay out for new bikes and trikes.
A vote was held with a clear divide. KS1 felt yes KS2 said no!

Chair Henry suggested that if we could raise some money that half could be spent replacing bikes and trikes and half could be spent on new balls and goals for KS2. This was agreed.

We discussed possible ways of making money.

• cake sale
• unwanted toy sale
• Enterprise week profits.

Any other business.
Mrs.Rees reported back that teachers agreed an outside activity for golden time would be arranged for the summer term.
Year 3 reps had been asked if it would be possible for the summer house to have a coat of paint.....also one for the Spring, we think.

Henry closed the meeting and thanked everyone for coming.