Welcome to the School Council Page

We are made up of one representative from each class and the KS1 and KS2. Our members were elected during a class vote to represent our school.

We meet regularly to discuss a variety of matters, such as:

• How we can improve and influence how our school is run
• pupil voice
• pupil feedback
• Charity and fundraising
• School events
• Bromstone's Got Talent
• Trips
• Our local community
• The environment and the impact we have
• The wider community
• The intergeneration project

House of Parliament trip

 

In January, the school council members travelled by train to the Houses of Parliament.

We had a guided tour and talked around the Houses of Parliament with a very helpful tour guide to answer any of our questions.

Whilst we were in the House of Parliament we had a workshop where they taught us all about voting, political parties and democracy. The children participated in games and had to guess what various items were and how they were related to Parliament. Our Local MP Polly Billington, joined us. Polly told us she was just 11 years old when she got into politics. We got to ask her questions that were important to us, such as: Why do only some year groups get free fruit and milk and others don't? We all really enjoy art, but we feel that there is never enough time to do it?  

Polly asked the school council to write to her so she could raise their question about art within the House of Common as she too enjoyed art as a child and recognises art as an important part of the curriculum.  

 

Parliament Week

School council signed up for Parliament week and used the resources sent to us to plan fun and interesting activities for the whole school.

We used the information and style of workshop to inform our peers in class about such important matters.

Each class got to learn about the history of Parliament. Our school council members formed four parties and each party came up with a manifesto that they delivered in assembly. The children then went around each class campaigning for votes. They each designed a party rosette. Finally, they had a blind vote to reveal which party they agreed with most.

The children had great fun.

T.E.L.T

As part of our schools joining together within T.E.L.T, Our school council members have been invited for meetings with the school council in other schools. So far this year we have visited Holy Trinity and St John's and St Mildred's. We discussed six key areas:

• Curriculum
• Mental health
• Environment
• Physical health
• Charity
• Education

Our school council members are working hard, having chosen which areas they would like to focus on and are beginning to make changes for when we meet again in July.

 

Maths Games Competition

In January, the school took part in a really exciting Maths week where we had the opportunity to design our own Maths board game. Each class shortlisted their games to be put forward for a competition. Mr Horne found it too tricky to choose as they were all so fantastic and so enlisted the help of the school council to judge.

We had to choose a winner for each year group to win a prize and an overall winner of the school.

It was so much fun playing all the children's games!