Every child in school is part of the school council and has the opportunity to have their voice heard in meetings. At the start of each year, each class elects ‘Communication Leaders’ who represent their class at regular meetings with the other classes Communication Leaders.
At these meetings, the children are able to download the responses from the class meetings, see what everyone has to say and consider what needs to happen next. They will then speak to the relevant members of staff to make sure this happens!
Our class meetings give every pupil, throughout the school, a voice. They are an important way for the children to find out about important issues affecting the school and decisions that have to be made. It gives them the opportunity to give their own opinions about these issues and to influence decisions. Our class meetings enable all of our pupils to communicate with each other and with the adults in school quickly and frequently.
Our School Council is supported by the other ‘Key Action Teams’, including our Eco-team ‘The Green Team’, Digital Leaders and Criw Cymraeg who all have their own action plans.
uK parliament Week
During UK Parliament Week, we were delighted to be joined by Steve Witherden MP who spent time with our pupils speaking to them about what it’s like to be a member of parliament and what his role entails. Mr Witherden also took the time to answer the children’s questions. We were very proud of the children’s mature questions and their interest in how decisions in our country are made.
You may be aware that our ‘Pioneers Phase’ (Years 4-6) is named ‘Pioneers’ because we believe that it is important for our children to recognise that they are the people who can go out into the world, leading the way in influencing change and making the world a better place for future generations. This was was wonderful for them to be inspired by someone from our local area who spoke to them about his journey to parliament. In class, our Year 6 pupils have been enjoying learning about the youth parliament- we wonder if we have any budding young politicians?
