SCHOOL COUNCIL 2024-25
Our School Council is a group of elected pupils from Year 4-7, who have been chosen by their peers to represent the views and opinions of the pupils in their class. School Council representatives come together to discuss ways in which the school can improve, taking into consideration the pupil voice. School Council members also link with the younger classes in our school, bringing on board their ideas and thoughts.
The School Council are given the opportunity to talk with the people who can make changes happen and decide on the most effective ways to implement these changes. School Council members share with their class news and information, discuss new initiatives and feedback to their class on what has been achieved. Our School Council representatives also aim to participate in fundraising events.
In previous years the School Council has been involved in fundraising for new playground equipment, something that came out of investigating how to improve pupil wellbeing following remote teaching and learning in the previous two years. They also spearhead Fairtrade within our school and we are a Fairachiever School and have held this highest Fairtrade award awarded to a school for the past 14 years. The School Council are also involved in an Attendance HERO initiative aiming to improve pupil attendance throughout the school as well as contributing pupil voice and ideas on anti-bullying.
We hope this year’s School Council really enjoy being their class representatives, bringing Pupil Voice together, so we can share interests and ideas from all of the children in our school!
School Council sharing some of their Christmas Kindness ideas for our school with Mr Smyth…
Whole School Attendance up to 92%!
We are getting closer to our target of 95%.
Let’s all work together and see if we can meet our target this year.
There is a whole school reward if we can!
School Council are helping Knockmore PS to pilot Chest, Heart & Stroke’s new Chester’s Active Challenge initiative. All of the classes in our school have been invited to take part in this initiative with the most active class each week being awarded the special Chester’s Active Challenge trophy!
Mr Smyth asked School Council to prepare for and lead Odd Socks Day and help to promote Anti-Bullying in our school. In the process of doing this School Council decided that the antidote to bullying would be kindness and so have decided to also promote a School of Kindness this year, which they introduced at a whole school assembly.
School Councillors have been hard at work writing ‘Thank You’ cards to businesses who supported them in their recent Fairtrade Fortnight activities!
Look out for who our new School Councillors are…coming soon!
SCHOOL COUNCIL 2023-24
Our School Council is a group of elected pupils from Year 4-7, who have been chosen to represent the views and opinions of the pupils in their class. School Council representatives come together to discuss ways in which the school can improve, taking into consideration the pupil voice. School Council members also link with the younger classes in our school, bringing on board their ideas and thoughts.
The School Council are given the opportunity to talk with the people who can make changes happen and decide on the most effective ways to implement these changes. School Council members share with their class news and information, discuss new initiatives and feedback to their class on what has been achieved. Our School Council representatives also aim to participate in fundraising events.
Last year the School Council were involved in fundraising for new playground equipment, something that came out of investigating how to improve pupil wellbeing following remote teaching and learning in the previous two years. They are also involved in an initiative aiming to improve pupil attendance throughout the school as well as contributing pupil voice and ideas on our anti-bullying policy. We hope this year’s School Council really enjoy being their class representatives, bringing Pupil Voice together, so we can share interests and ideas from all of the children in our school!
Latest news….
School Councillors busy evaluating the School Council action plan!
School Councillors have been very busy writing more ‘Thank You’ cards to businesses who have kindly donated prizes for our Attendance HERO initiative…
School Councillors very excited to receive some mail…more vouchers for our Attendance HERO initiative prizes…this time four family passes for Let’s Go Hydro!
MARCH ATTENDANCE HEROES in KS2!
Internet Safety Day 2024
School Councillors took an assembly to remind KS2 pupils of the importance of thinking about what they post online, as their digital footprint will stay with them for life.
They finished with a ‘Guess the Age Ratings’ quiz which had lots of enthusiasm as there were Easter eggs for prizes!
Attendance Task from Mr Smyth
Mr Smyth asked the School Council to write a letter to parents to explain and remind them about our Attendance Hero initiative in school and to share with them the prizes that we would love to be able to award at the end of the school year.
School Councillors getting Mr Smyth to read over their letter and sign it before it gets sent out to parents.
School Councillors feeding back to Ms Hardwick on a task she set them to find out pupil views on what money raised by the PSA should be used for.
School Council celebrated the end of term with a Christmas Party!
School Councillors hard at work writing ‘Thank You’ cards to businesses who donated prizes for our Attendance Heroes initiative.
Anti-Bullying Week 2023 - Bullying Isn’t Welcome Here!
We started the week off with ‘Odd Socks Day’ to show how we are all different and unique.
Then the School Council went into the Foundation Stage Classes to share an anti-bullying week lesson, with the help of a Topsy & Tim Story. The School Council also planned and delivered an anti-bullying lesson in the Key Stage 1 classes, with the help of The Bully Blockers story. Then the Key Stage 2 classes came together in the hall for their Anti-Bullying Week lesson from School Council on Banter v Bullying. They also shared The Technology Tail - a digital footprint story, which reminds us how important it is to THINK before we post online, as everything we put there stays there for life!
School Councillors delivering their Key Stage 2 lesson during Anti-Bullying Week…
School Councillors hard at work, delivering their Foundation Stage lesson in Mrs Williams class! Well done School Councillors and super listening boys and girls!
Mr Smyth’s Attendance Initiative prizes…well done to all of the winners!
Mr Deery’s class, winners of one of our KS2 Attendance Hero class prizes on their trip to Laser Zone…
Mr Smyth feeding back to School Council how impressed our visitors to school were with the presentation they delivered to them.
School Council presented their year’s work to Mr Mulholland, when he came to visit our school.
School Council handing over their evaluated pupil School Council Action Plan to Ms Hardwick…
Our new playground equipment that the School Council costed for and purchased using the
money raised in our Sports for Schools fundraiser earlier this year…
School Council Fun Afternoon…budding fashion designers, frisbee and football fun and the play park! A well deserved treat for all your hard work
School Council have also met with the Board of Governors and shared with them the work they have been doing, as a School Council, within school this year…including launching anti-bullying week and steps taken to address the pupil voice on this issue, their Attendance Hero initiative and roll in supporting Mr Smyth snd the EWO in their improving attendance initiative, as well as their Fairtrade work throughout the school and fundraising for new playground equipment. We also shared our favourite thing about School Council this year.
The School Council organised a Sports for Schools event to help fundraise money to buy some new playground equipment. Members of the School Council interviewed David in a Q & A session after the fitness circuits and hearing his story.
The School Council are busy writing ‘Thank You’ cards to businesses who supported them with kind donations for their Fairtrade Fortnight activities.
As part of Fair Trade fortnight the members of the School Council came to our classroom. They read us a story about Charlie, Lola and Fair Trade chocolate.
At the end of the lesson we painted pictures with Fair Trade cocoa powder.
School Council went into all of the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 classes to teach them about Fairtrade.
Here are some photos from Mrs Williams class in their Pablo the Super banana lesson!
P3 Fairtrade Lesson.
Making Pablo the Super Banana with Year 2 and some P2s hard at work on their Pablo the Super Banana activity booklet!
School Council provided a FAIRTRADE break for all staff during Fairtrade Fortnight!
The School Council hard at work, planning for Fairtrade Fortnight!
New School Council elections are taking place.
Keep an eye out for who our new School Councillors are going to be this year!
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Tel:02892 662600
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