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.

Back pack action.

2.11.10 School council met today. One of our jobs was to review the progress of the back pack appeal. Mrs Rees showed us an example of a prepared backpack.

We discussed how we could promote the appeal. We decided to make a display in the entrance hall and prepare posters to remind people of this important project.

Holleigh and Jacques suggested we wrote to local shops to see if they would donate items for us to include in our packs.

Holleigh takes the Chair!

School council meeting 14.10.10.

Holliegh took the chair and led us all in our meeting.
We discussed tomorrows open day and agreed to work in pairs to welcome and show visitors around the school.
We then discussed the new initiative suggested  by the Blandford school to provide backpacks full of school essentials to children in places like Malawi and Liberia. This will help the poorest children to get a primary education that may otherwise be denied them..   More information on this will follow.
We voted to support this chaity this year instead of the usual shoebox appeal.