School Council Members 2014 - 2015

Our school council is made up from two children out of every class. Each year we nominate

ourselves and are voted in by our classmates. We work extremely hard to ensure our pupils

have a voice within our school and support the staff and the Headteacher. We enjoy

fundraising and ensuring our school is health school and environmentally friendly.

Our first project this year was to review the behaviour policy, which involved working

closely with the senior management team and the governors to decide on a policy that

would work for both the children and the staff.

The school council had the special job of naming each of the new zones and writing the

behaviour steps in each cloud. In order to achieve this we listened to each other’s ideas

until we unanimously agreed on names that suited each of these steps. We then ensured

the text could be understood by every child.

We felt very strongly that the children should have more time to talk to their teachers about

issues and feelings on a one to one basis. They should be given the opportunity to recover

their behaviour and think about their choices before returning to their task. We believe that

the new system accommodates this.

In addition to this we also thought that linking golden time to our behaviour policy was

unfair and would only make children worry about issues all week rather than concentrating

on their work. We asked that this be taken out of the behaviour system and the staff

listened to our suggestion.

Deciding on how to present the policy was quite an easy task as we simply decided to

incorporate last year’s school councillor’s idea to use our school logo which we are really

very proud of.

Together we have produced a policy which not only incorporates our school aim and values

but also encourages us to talk about our feelings when children move to every step on the

cloud.

As the policy is new we suggested we should have a display in the corridor as well as smaller

ones in our pencil cases. After all we use our pencil cases all day and felt this would be a

good reminder for us all.

Our Behaviour Policy Display

Classroom Poster

Some of the children’s views on the new policy

Attendance Policy

Our second project was to review the attendance policy.

Again we built upon the achievements of last year’s school councillors but we felt the

changes needed were very minimal.

We decided that it would be helpful for each child to have a copy in their pencil case. So we

chose to use the school logo again and mirror our behaviour system.

The policy includes reminders of our school attendance target, rewards that we receive and

information on percentages and how much learning time is missed if we have time off

school. This works very well as a constant reminder for us all.

Attendance Display

Classroom Poster

Some of our children’s views