Our School Council represents the views of all our pupils. It gives children the opportunity to make their voices heard and feel part of the whole school community. Children in the council will discuss issues such as behaviour, rewards and resources.
Year 1 – Noah and Jack
Year 2 – Maya and Timothy
Year 3 – Muna and Hanna
Year 4 – Eloka and Allu
Year 5 – Hadley and Fabian
Year 6 – Chidozie and Friend
The School Council recently gathered pupil voice from children across the school to help make an important decision about our Gospel Values Shop. After listening carefully to the views and suggestions of their classmates, the councillors worked together to decide how many points each prize should be worth. They discussed the value and popularity of each item before agreeing on a fair points system. The children then labelled all of the prizes with coloured stickers to clearly show their points value, helping to make the shop easy to use for everyone. This was a wonderful example of democracy in action, with pupils showing responsibility, teamwork and leadership while ensuring that every child’s voice was heard.
Our School Council recently visited Wyndham Park to take part in a litter-picking project as part of our commitment to stewardship and caring for God’s creation. Equipped with high-visibility jackets and litter pickers, the children worked hard to collect rubbish and help make our community a cleaner, safer and more welcoming place for everyone. This practical act of service allowed them to live out our mission of Missionary Discipleship by putting their faith into action and caring for our common home. We are incredibly proud of the children for showing such responsibility and enthusiasm as they work towards our LiveSimply Award and demonstrate that even small actions can make a big difference in making the world a better place.
We have been thinking about how we can improve playtimes at St Mary’s. We have gathered ideas from our classes about which playground equipment they enjoy using and what they would like to see more of. Then, we discussed the ideas we collected in our school council meetings and decided on a list of equipment to order for our school. We worked with Mrs Mumford to order the equipment and organise it when it arrived.
School Council led an assembly to show the school how to use the new playtime equipment. They created a list of rules:
We have been discussing how we can promote the British Values at St Mary’s. We explored the British Values: Democracy; Rule of Law, Individual Liberty; Mutual Respect and Tolerance. We led an assembly to the whole school to remind everyone about the British Values and help them understand how we promote these at St Mary’s.
We have been making Christmas decorations to sell during Advent! We collected craft materials that were shiny, sparkly and brightly coloured. We used these materials to fill the inside of some Christmas tree baubles. We created some personalised tree decorations made from a tree trunk, where pupils could choose a letter to be stenciled onto the circular wood piece. We also sold ‘colour your own’ decorations. The money we raised is being put towards the cost of new playtime equipment.
