minutes of the meeting 22.2.17

Everyone present.
Lois led the school prayer

Agenda.
Red Nose Day

School council agreed unanimously that we should support Red Nose Day on Friday 24th March.
We looked at what our money could do.
£4 could vaccinate a child in Africa against five deadly diseases.
£10 could pay for people with dementia to have a hot meal at a support group.
£30 could pay for orphanes children in Sierra Leone to go to school for a month of catch up classes.
£150 could pay for a year's schooling for achild in Kenya who used to have to work.
We decided to have a non school uniform day and we will order red noses to sell.

A.O.B.
Year 6 have requested more diamond and pearl level books
Playtime behaviour is still worrying lots of children especially the toilets.

Minutes by Jack.

Minutes of the meeting 1 2 17

Y1-6 present
School prayer

Matters arising
Y6 Lois is concerned about the safety of the water butt.
Y5 Children have been getting upset by teasing about 'love' relationships. As this has also arisen in other classes we talked about how we should love one another, but in a friendship way, which is nice. Mrs. Rees agreed to mention the issue to other KS2 staff.
Y4 Girls have complained that one toilet does not have a seat at present. With only two toilets for three classes this is a bit of a problem. We will notify the office.
Y3 are requesting to join the school choir. They feel that as they are KS2 they should be included.
Mrs. Rees will pass the request on to Mrs.Newlin.
Y1 would like teachers to remind children in all classes that the astro is for football.

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.