School Council
Welcome to our School Council
What is the School Council?
A school council provides a meaningful way in which pupils can voice their opinions and have their views taken into account in decisions that impact upon them. Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) -Respect for views of the child.
At The Grove Primary School, our school council is a group of children that represents the views of all our pupils. It gives our children the opportunity to have their voices heard and be part of the whole school community. They help to makes decisions about school life and organise projects that support learning and development, such as organising charity events, theme days or representing the school at outside events.
We value the opinions of our pupils and our school council gives pupils a forum to share these opinions with our school council teacher representative, Headteacher and other members of staff.
Who are the School Council representatives?
A new school council is elected each year and is made up of 2 representatives from each class from Year 1 to Year 6. All school council representatives are elected by their peers at the beginning of each academic year.
Meet our School Council 2023-2024
Nicola Duggan- School Council (Teacher representative)
I am very proud to lead our School Council. We have amazing children in our school who have lots of great ideas on how we can work together to make a better school. They do all the hard work and like to get involved as much as possible…making my job a bit easier! Our motto at The Grove is: The Grove School cares and each member of our school council truly does. We have children from Year 6 all the way down to Year 1. We want to make sure that all children’s voices are heard in our school. We meet regularly to discuss ideas and events. I am very fortunate to work with a great group of children this year and I know we are going to achieve a lot for our school!
School council aims:
- To meet regularly to discuss their views and be heard.
- To organise whole school and class events
- To organise charity days
- To make sure our school is a happy and safe place for all of our children
- To make sure children have a place to voice their concerns, opinions, and thoughts
- To encourage all children in school to suggest ideas and improvements
- To ensure any suggestions or concerns are listened to and acted upon
School Council Blog – What we have done- so far- this year?
School fundraising
Discussed and organised school fundraising events (some upcoming):
Autumn Disco
Christmas Fayre
Rewards
Discussed reward systems within school and introduced new ideas.
Birthdays-children can wear non-uniform should they wish to when it is their birthday.
Attendance: children who have achieved our school target of 96% and above for their attendance will receive a certificate in assembly. Certificates will be given out at the end of each half term. Children with 100% attendance will receive a small treat (to be decided each half term.)
Class attendance: The class with the highest attendance each week sit at the VIP/top table the following Friday for lunch.
Praising the positives: Raffle tickets and prizes: children can receive a raffle ticket for any positive behaviour e.g. good manners, perseverance, effort etc. Raffle tickets will then be placed in a box (EYFS/KS1 and KS2.) 1 child to be picked out of each box during our weekly celebration assembly. The child with the chosen raffle ticket can pick from the prize box.
Supporting charities:
School Council have also decided on the charities they would like to support.
Macmillan Cancer support. School council members helped at our school cake sale, raising £300 for Macmillan.
School council organised a non-uniform day for Children in Need. Raising awareness of the work the charity does and taking part in Pudsey activities.