School Council Minutes
Date: 12.1.16
Shadwell
Primary
School
Council
Present at today’s meeting:
Sashyn, Leo, Becky, Molly, Sam, Emily, Connie,
Charlotte, Ollie, Josh, Megan, Emily, Jacob, Tom
and Mrs Wilson
Our councillors have been proudly
wearing their badges.
Connie and Jacob have volunteered to set
up the room for our meetings
Zac and Leo have agreed to tidy
up after our meetings
What did we talk about?
What did we decide in our school council meeting?
1. Mrs Maiden from ‘Shadwell in Bloom’ was invited to attend our meeting
Mrs Maiden explained that ‘Shadwell in Bloom’ works with volunteers. They try to make
the village look as nice as it can by growing plants in flower beds around the village. Mrs
Maiden would like to work with children in school to make some of our areas bright and
colourful.
Mrs Maiden suggested starting a gardening club; she would like to work with the Year 5
children first and later children from different year groups. This would start on Wednesday
lunch times after half term in February. The children would have their lunch then meet with
Mrs Maiden at 12.30pm Mrs Kennett has said she would like to join the gardeners as well.
This means 8 children could be in the first group.
Year 5 volunteers:
Only volunteer if you are committed to a minimum of three weeks gardening activities.
2. What is happening in school?
Yuppie is coming back to see us as a ‘working guide dog’
Yuppie is now a working dog and lives with his owner Helen. She has asked if we would like
to hear about the difference Yuppie has made to her life.
As a School Council we voted to decide if this was a good idea.
Everyone voted ‘Yes’
Mrs Wilson will arrange for Yuppie to come into school on the 8th February.
3. Enterprise
The profits have not been spent yet.
In the Class Council meetings each class has named their products, their profits and what
they would like to spend their money on.
Please can all members of class council make a decision on how the money will be spent.
The teachers can order from the school catalogues and get spending!
Well done to all classes especially class 6, you made a massive profit!
Lots of money for you to spend!
Class:
Our products were:
Reception Reindeer chocolates
Reindeer fingerprint baubles
Countdown to Christmas
1
Our profit was:
£39.38
We would like to purchase:
£90.07
Finger gym equipment
Chalk boards with chalks (big
and small) for the
playground
Monopoly
Wet playtime games
Cushions for the reading
corner
Colouring books
Colouring pencils
Chalk to use outside
Colouring pens for use on
the whiteboards outside
plaques
Reindeer food
2
Pendants
Key-rings
£76.42
3
Snowmen
Pine cone deer
£104.95
4
Sock
snowmen
£72
Card games
5
Elves
Baubles
Stars
Origami baubles
Snowflakes
Gift tags
snowmen
£51.92
Colour by numbers book
Simpsons fish cards
How to draw book
New cricket set
Books
Mini football table
Lego
Disco lights
6
Elf doors
Origami stars
Elf poems
£117.30
Diabolo to use at break times
Chalk to draw hop scotch at
break.
The products we purchase for our classes will definitely make our school a better place to
be.
4.
Our actions to the suggestions you made for improvements to our school.
Class
5
5.
Suggestion
Action
To make the Y5 and Y3 toilet doors bigger. Some It has been agreed that the toilet
children can see over the top without standing
doors can be replaced but the weight
on tip toes.
of the bigger door will mean that we
will have to purchase new hinges. Mr
Cornelius is looking into this.
Watch this space!
We cannot change things quickly.
School council suggestions.
These are the results from class council votes. We asked you how you would like to spend the
£100 that we raised in October.
2
3
4
5
6
Class
To have more diabolo to use at break
times.
17
30
10
8
15
To complete base camp.
9
20
26
28
To have more outdoor learning.
14
12
25
25
Need more
information
27
To use the pond and pond area more.
21
24
24
27
22
To have astro turf around the outdoor
classroom.
20
25
21
19
23
In our next meeting School Councillors will analyse the results and decide how to spend the £100
6.
Ethos statements for our school
We like to think of our school as one big happy family. We look after the younger children and help
them to enjoy school as well as learn, we always encourage people to look after themselves through
healthy choices, e-safety days and anti-bullying week.
We would like to have an ethos statement for each week but we would like the ethos statements to
be written by the children.
Eg.
When you smile someone will
smile back
I never give up even
when it gets tough
I treat others in the way
I like to be treated
If you haven’t got anything nice to say
then don’t say anything at all
Write your ethos statement on a post it note and give it to your school
councillors.
Remember to:
Read out these minutes to
your classmates so they know
what is going on in school
and how together we are
helping to make it a better
place.
Colour or tick each smiley
face to show you have shared
each point with your class.
Bring your folder to each
meeting.
Together we make a brilliant school
Thank you,
Mrs Wilson