Well done to our Key Stage 1 School Council members who won the regional prize after writing a group poem on the theme of Diversity. Their poem was entitled ‘Perfectly No One’.
Click on the link to read their winning poem and find out more about the competition.
Link to Perfectly No One, Shields Gazette Article
Competition Winners with Head Teacher Mrs Ratcliffe
Some members of our School Council have been writing poems on the theme of diversity. We have entered a competition run by Premier League Primary Stars, and have had some fantastic ideas.
Meet our new class representatives! They’ve already been involved in some decision making, and shared their classes ideas on changes that could have a positive impact. Meetings will be fortnightly.
We have been learning about the democratic process in school and put this into practise when voting for this year’s class representatives.
Some of our Year 6 pupils took on the role of clerks and counters and all of our voters enjoyed participating.
Our new School Council members will have their first meeting on Thursday. An announcement will follow on the results of our first meeting.
As well as being excellent class and school representatives, the School Council have also been setting a good example as Eco Warriors.
Congratulations to the whole school community in helping us to achieve this award again!
We were delighted to collect the award at a ceremony in South Shields Town Hall.
Not content to sit on our laurels though, we are already thinking about how we can extend our provision by including yoga, a Health and Wellbeing Week, raising awareness of mental health issues, and involving parents, carers and children in developing future plans.
The School Council led our Great Big School Clean assembly on Friday 9th March. They also took part in a school litter pick and found a surprisingly large amount of litter! There was a mixture of different materials – plastic, cardboard, foil and fabric.
We know that litter should be recycled wherever possible. Each class wrote a poem about litter to submit to the Eco Schools Litter-acy competition. We are really proud of all of the entries. Fingers crossed!
Following on from The Big School Clean Up, our School Council decided that they’d like to make this a regular event.
Mrs Parker, our school caretaker, kindly offered to help the School Council pick litter twice weekly in the school grounds.
This week it’s Year 1’s turn. They were delighted to find a butterfly garden ornament in the bushes, which they are going to upcycle.
Meet our elected School Council! Following on from our in-school elections, candidates were elected for 2017-18.
They have been busy already, giving feedback on how our Playground Buddies programme is working, and ways in which they can help raise the profile of local and global environmental issues. Watch this space!
Excited by the delivery of our Buddy Bus Stops, School Council members met to discuss how these might best be used to help children feeling lonely in the yard. Council members explained that it will be important to have thoughtful children playing close to the bus stops if those feeling lost are to receive the help that they need. Could you be one of these helpful children, or Buddies, that the School Council are looking for?
