Minutes of the meeting 28.9.16

Everyone present except Y6 (on residential)
Mia yr 5 led as vice chair.
School prayer.
Agenda.
Presentation for Macmillan Coffee morning
Children in Need Day.
Role of Cchool council


Actions.
First, we discussed what we needed people to know about what the money raised on Friday will do.
We wrote a short presentation, divided up the parts and practised reading aloud ready for the Big Coffee Morning.

Next we looked ahead to Children in Need day. We decided that it would be good to support this great fundraiser. We agreed to have a non school uniform 'Wear spots for a pound' day. We also looked at the various items we could sell to raise money and decided that the ear bands would be most popular. We will ask for these to be ordered.

Finally, we discussed exactly what our role as school council should be.
These are our aims.......

·   To find out the views and ideas of the children in our school 

• To take the 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 meet with School councils from the other schools in the BET academy
• To think of ways we can improve our school
• To ensure the school is a safe and happy place for everyone
• To promote good health and good behaviour
• To welcome visitors and show them around
• 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!'

                                   WOW!!! WE ARE GOING TO BE BUSY!

Minutes of the meeting.21.9.16

Everyone present  (except y5 reps)

Lois led the school prayer
Everyone was issued with their School Council badges. They look great!

Agenda

• Preparations for The Big Coffeee Morning
• Volunteers to help at parents evening

Actions.
Publicity for the Coffee Morning.
We discussed how we could promote the Coffee morning to make it a great event. We decided to make our own posters to advertise the date of coffee morning and also some to ask people to bake cakes for the event.
We worked together to compose a text for our School Secretary to send to all the parents.
Parents Evening
Although everyone wanted to help we decided for our first official job we should choose our Y6 reps.

Any other business
Several year groups brought their comments boards that had already been filled in with requests for issues to be discussed. It was decided that as we had our posters to make these should be postponed for now. It is clear, however, that children would like the lunchtime process to be improved.........More on this when we can..........

The new Council for 2016 / 2017

Today the new School Council met for the first time. We re all very excited and proud at being chosen to represent our classes as the Voice of BSM pupils!

Agenda
Election of Chairperson, Vice-Chair and Technical Support.

Action
Lois was unanimously elected as Chair......Congratulations Lois!
Mia was chosen as Vice Chair and Jack kindly agreed to provide technical support and help with the blog.
We took photographs for our display board so everyone will know who we are. We will also make class cards where children can write their ideas and any issues they would like us to discuss in School Council.
We agreed that at our next meeting we would plan and prepare for the big Macmillan Coffee Morning.
We can't wait to get started!