School Council

At Eastington, we have an active School Council which has representatives from each class. Our school supports British Values including democracy and so we were elected to be school council members by our classmates after explaining who we were, our skills and why we wanted the role. We have elected a chairperson who helps to organise our meetings and ideas.  Gathering ideas from classmates and reporting back to them after meetings is an important part of our job too.

This year the School Council Representative are:

Class 1: Saskia and Arthur

Class 2: Ari and Ethan

Class 3: Lewin and Charlie

Class 4: Conor and Darcie

Class 5: Lacey and Erik

Meeting together is fun – we sometimes have a business breakfast to talk about how we can make our school an even better place and how we can support others (sometimes we enjoy croissants at our breakfast meetings too!). Each meeting we follow an agenda. Wonderful Mrs Yorke and Mrs Bedwell come to these meetings and help us too.

Last year the SC team worked hard to help everyone to have clean hands before eating lunch. The pupil survey showed this was an area we could be better at! The SC team made posters, talked to children in assembly and asked the cleaner to provide hand sanitiser – it made a difference!

This year we enjoyed a special outdoor learning day with members of School Councils from other schools – it was brilliant fun and gave us time to work as a team. The SC usually organise fundraising to help others – this year we plan to raise funds for Children In Need by running a ‘Bring and Buy Sale’. We will also represent our school by creating decorations to adorn a tree for the local Christmas Tree Festival.

If you want to find out more, ask the school council representatives or look at our school council notice board outside the school hall.

We all really enjoy working together to make our school the best place it can be and making a contribution our community and the wider world.

 

The photograph shows children in our partner school Langa-Langa School, Kenya, wearing the red jumpers we sent to them. We think of Kenya as a hot country but it does become cooler in the evenings in Langa-Langa. The children there are proud to wear their school uniform.