Meet the School Council Team!

The term ‘pupil voice’ refers to ways of listening to the views of pupils and/or involving them in decision-making. You may also hear the expressions ‘learner voice’ or ‘consulting pupils’.

We believe in engaging pupils as active participants in their education and in making a positive contribution to their school and local community.

We have different groups where children can take an active part in school life and can have a say in decisions that are made.

Our School Council

Our School Council have representatives from every class, Miss Oxley supports the work we do to improve the school.  We look forward to hearing about what the School Council has in store for 2024-25.

Reception:  Charlotte and Lachlan

Year 1: Bethany and Xander

Year 2: Havana and James

Year 3: Christy and Martha

Year 4: Fallon, Emily and Thomas 

Year 5: Abel, Lexi and Zac

Year 6: Danvir and Teagan

Actions so far

Good Mentions Certificates

The School Council’s first meeting of the year was to choose the winners of the Good Mentions certificate competition.  The school council representatives worked with their year group partner(s) to look at the entries from an alternative year group.  As a council, the children then voted for the winners.  

Re-designing rewards

To support the implementation of our revised Golden Promises and Values, our reward system for positive behaviours has changed to using ClassDojo.  With this, points mean prizes and the School Council were asked by Mrs Roberts to speak to their class for suggestions on what these prizes could be.  As a school council they came up with ideas such as a trip to the park, a packet of sweets, watching a film in the hall and changing the avatar on their ClassDojo profile.  Their ideas were collated and reviewed by Mrs Roberts who then created posters of the rewards that could be earnt to be displayed in every classroom.   

Thank you!

As a school, we were kindly donated a set of rosary beads for every child from our Parish Priest Father Lee.  To thank both Father Lee and the people of the parish, the school council made a card filled with letters, postcards, and pictures to express our gratitude. 

School Dinner Special Menus

Miss Staniforth approached the School Council with two jobs she needed help with. The first was to make suggestions for menu choices for celebrations of significant events such as Chinese New Year, Sports Day, and Easter.  For this, the school council representatives partnered with someone in a different year group to discuss and make suggestions. 

Playground Equipment

The second job was to order equipment for our school playgrounds.  The school council had to choose how to spend the 10 credits allocated by doing an audit of the current playground equipment to see what we already had and then by looking through a catalogue to see the items they could choose to buy.  As a school council, the representatives discussed the pros and cons of each item and thought about not only their opinions but the opinions of the student body to inform their decisions.