School Council
To be a good School Council representative you have to be a
good listener so that you can represent other people’s views.
It also helps you become confident when speaking and
presenting. During meetings it is important to make sure
everyone has a chance to speak and that everyone listens to
each othe r. To make sure this happens we have a ball which is
passed around during the meeting. If you are holding the ball
it is your turn to speak, then you have to pass it to someone
else.
Louisa 5B
I was thrilled to be elected by my class to be on the School Council this year. I have enjoyed our
lunchtime meetings and mixing with children in other year groups. We talk about ways we could
introduce new initiatives to make our school even better. We have begun to think about a School
Tuck Shop. The class representatives talked to everyone in their classes about what kind of treats
would go down well and how much they would be willing to pay for them. The advantage of
having a tuck shop is that we could sell a variety of snacks, not just cakes, and we would definitely
ensure that the things we sell are nut-free. The money raised by the tuck shop would go towards
our school charity and Year 6 children would take it in turn to run it. This will be an ongoing
discussion next year. Arran 4C
Every year the School Council is involved in running a stall at the
Summer Fair. This year we made a slime bucket called the ‘Yucky
Dip’ which was lucky dip, only with the added excitement of
getting to plunge your hands into the slime. We used water
beads to make the slime and we needed eight litres of water to
expand the beads and fill our huge slime bucket. The object of
the game was to find the plastic animals that we had hidden in
the slime -the white horse gave you the biggest prize which was
a balloon and a sheriff’s badge. It felt gooey and cold but
strangely nice. Everyone wanted to have a go because it felt so
peculiar. I overheard people saying, “You’ve got to have a go on
the School Council’s stall”, and we were never short of
customers on the day. I helped run the stall which involved
collecting the tokens and handing out the prizes. I think everyone
who came to the fair had a go and I’m pleased with the 269
tokens we managed to collect. This means that we raised a total
of £134.50 which will go towards our new school library and to
the Alzheimer’s Society.
Ruby 3M
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