Minutes of the meeting 25.1.17

Lois led the prayer and opened the meeting.
Y1 - 6 present.

Agenda
Lunchtime Charter feedback
British values display

Shelby and Lloyd have taken class copies of the lunchtime charter into all classrooms. The Big version is now on display in the hall (Good work everyone!)
School council agreed the lunchtime Charter is having an impact. Mia noted that she had seen lots of people looking at it as they queued for lunches.
School Council still feel there is a problem with lunchtime behaviour and several classes have put on their boards that they would like more equipment to play with at play times. Lois suggested that the money we raise at Enterprise week could go on improving the stock of playtime activities.

British Values.
Mrs Rees brought our attention to the values display in the reception area. We agreed these values are important to us at school and discussed how we show our commitment to these values at Blandford St Mary.
Democracy; Our elected school council provides a platform for children's opinions being heard and taken into consideration in decisions on the management of our school.
Rule of law. We understand the importance of rules, of rights and responsibilities and recognise the importance of devising School and class charters.
Individual Liberty At our school we have choices; we can choose after school clubs and sometimes which challenge to accept in our learning.
Mutual respect. Everyone is respected at our school. We make sure we speak and listen respectfully accepting that other people have their own views and opinions.
Acceptance of different Faiths and Beliefs. We enjoy learning about other Faiths and cultures in our country and around the world.

Minutes 11.1.17 and lunchtime charter

Meeting 11.1.17
Present - All year groups except yr6

Lloyd led the school prayer.
 Agenda
Lunchtime Charter
Everyone has had the chance to think about the new Lunchtime Charter.
 We want it to be based on the School Charter but to show clearly what this should look like in the lunch hall. We agreed on the following rights and responsibilities.

Rights	Responsibilities
To be heard	·         Use quiet voices ·         Listen respectfully         ·         Follow the instructions given by grown-ups.
To feel Safe	·         Carry food carefully ·         Don’t drop food on the floor
To be healthy and happy	·        Eat healthy foods ·         Drink water ·         Keep the tables clean and tidy
To learn	·         Use good manners ·         Speak politely
To play	·         Concentrate on eating, leaving time to play later
To have the things we need	·       Use plates, cups, knives, forks and spoons properly

We discussed how this should be displayed and decided that it will need pictures to make it easier for the younger children to understand. Mrs Rees agreed to take pictures at lunchtime.
Once our ideas have been checked by Mr Carter we will make the Charter for the hall.

Mrs Rees thanked everyone for coming.

Minutes of the meeting 16.11.16

Present everyone but Hudson

School prayer


Agenda

• Meeting with school management .re lunchtime arrangements
• Letters requesting donations

Lunchtime issues
Mr.Carter, Mrs Wellman and Mrs. Grice attended our meeting today to find out what children are saying about lunchtimes
year 6 say everyone is squashed and want longer tables as there is not enough room
year 5 say games are too rough.
year 4 say its squashed in hall while eating lunch and too noisy.
year 3 agreed there is too much rough play on playground and suggested more equipment might help
year 2 wanted chairs as they feel squashed
Year 1 felt it was too noisy and they can't hear the dinner ladies.

Options.
 Shelby suggested two sittings so that there would be more space and less noise.
Lunch time charter with clear expectations.
Lunchtime sipporters elected in each class to remind children of correct behaviour and help in supervising trips to the cloakrooms.
Dinner ladies to have an action which children need to copy.
House points/ stickers to be given for quick and quiet responses.

Donations
Shelby and Mia have agreed to work with Mrs Rees to write letters requesting local businesses donate a Christmas tree for the front of school, and oranges for Christingle.

The meeting closed ( a bit late!)
Blog by Jack

minutes of the meeting 9.11.16

Everyone present.
school prayer
Agenda

1. Visitors in school
2. Handing over the blog

Mrs rees said thankyou to School Council for meeting with a visitor yesterday. She was very impressed with us!
We are having another visitor tomorrow and we are looking forward to telling him about our school and the way it works.

Today Mrs Rees showed me how to do the blog, so now I will be taking over.
Jack

Minutes of the meeting 5.10.16

Apologies; Harrison absent
School prayer
Agenda
Feedback from Macmillan morning
Lunchtime discussion

Firstly congratulations everyone, we raised even more for Macmillan Cancer this year!

Many school councillors have been approached by children with issues over lunchtimes. The problems appear to be;

• Overcrowding
• Small tables
• Noise/ smell
• Mess
• Bad manners
• Rough play outside.

We discussed the problems at some length.
Action.

• School Council could produce a new lunchtime charter for inside and outside and address the noise, mess, manners and rough play.
• Representatives might approach SMT about overcrowding and small tables; possibly suggest separate sittings for KS1 and KS2, or some classes return to eating in their classes.

Lois thanked everyone for coming and closed the meeting.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

On Friday 30th September we took part in The World's Biggest Coffee Morning to raise money for Macmillan cancer nurses. The event was a great success thanks to the enormous number and variety of delicious cakes supplied by members of our school community.

 

 

We had far too many cakes to eat at the coffee morning and so we plated them up and sold them at home time.This doubled the amount of money raised!

 We, as School Council, would like to thank everyone who helped with the event in any way. Your generosity will make such a difference to the lives of many.

 

And the cakes were wonderful too!    Thank you!

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!