School Council
Welcome to our School Council!
Welcome to our School Council!
Our School Council is made up of two pupils from each class, elected at the beginning of the year. Each representative was chosen due to their commitment to listening to all voices in the school and for striving to make a difference in our school community. The school council oversee all our school values and are considered excellent role models of these already.
We have elected a head boy and girl who will also be part of the school council.
Throughout the year, they attend School Council meetings where a range of matters are discussed. The School Council all strive towards the same common goal, which is to ensure the children of Ab Kettleby are proud of their environment, and are kind, self-regulated and respectful individuals, so that they leave Ab Kettleby with the skills to become life-long learners.
Our head boy and girl are:
Head Boy – Tom
Head Girl - Sophie
Our school council representatives are:
Bumble Bees – Macie and Harriet
Honey Bees – Alfie and Adaline
The Hive – Nat and Daisy
Our first meeting began by introducing ourselves and talking about why it was important for us to be a representative of the school. We were all feeling honoured that, through the power of democracy, each member had been voted for fairly to be in our School Council this academic year. With this, we discussed the importance of ‘our voice’. We wanted to begin the year as we mean to go on, by simply listening to those around us. How can we improve our school without the voices of those inside? So, we introduced our focus for the half term – “We All Have a Voice”. The team created a ‘suggestions box’ to be placed in school where pupils can raise issues that they would like the School Council to discuss.
We also had a few events that we organised: Jeans for Genes day on Friday 20th September where our school raised awareness of the daily challenges faced by those living with a genetic condition whilst raising money. We also had a bake sale on Friday 27th September to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support to raise as much money as we could to help those in need, from our small but mighty school.
ABK School Council
Across the spring term and feeding into the summer term, our suggestion box filled up! The team spent time in meetings picking out the suggestions of those who were within our school with the continued focus on us all ‘having a voice’. We organised ideas into what we felt could be done and those which we have had to ‘park’ for now.
The team then held an assembly where this was explained to children across KS1 and KS2. The School Council group took on board the voices of those who spoke up and began to make some adaptations and changes within the school day.
Examples of this have been Prefects /Door monitors to help out during the transition from the lunch hall to the playground, playground to classrooms and reminders of table manners and encouragement through the use of ‘Head of Table’ children.
Further suggestions that will be explored in time are fund-raising opportunities to buy the school new art supplies, playground equipment and new décor for school toilets.
With lots to think about, the new School Council team for next year will have some exciting plans to begin the new academic year with!