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School Council
Welcome to Plaistow Hill's School Council page. We are excited to share with you the children's 'voice' of our school. We hope you enjoy meeting our School Council members and seeing how they work together to share the views and good ideas of everyone to make our school an even better place to be.
Our Members
We are pleased to announce our new School Council members for 2019-20.
Our Elections
The School Council helps children to understand the democratic process by giving everyone an opportunity to share their views and to take part in a vote to help make decisions. Our elections are help twice a year. Each class will have to vote for two representatives - 1 girl and 1 boy with the successful candidates being declared in our school assembly.
Our Meetings
The School Council meet regularly and are involved in making decisions about all aspects of school life. They achieve this through:
1. Consulting with children in their classes, listening to their views and concerns and sharing these during meetings
2. Consulting with adults e.g. the Headteacher and sharing their collective ideas to help make decisions with Mrs Edmonds
3. Reporting to all members of school
The School Council is also responsible for organising and running events to raise money for charities, representing their classes in assemblies and outside events.
Our Actions (for last year)
- Designing, creating and presenting activities to raise money for charities; guess the number of sweets in the jar
- Deciding on different ways that the school can raise money; mufti days and cake sales
- Help improve assemblies by putting into action children's suggestions for better assemblies; posters to remind children of behaviour, a cleaner floor etc
- Collecting ideas and suggestions on how to improve lunchtimes for everyone; new toys, football
- Providing suitable names for the teams at sports day; mythical creatures
- Presenting class wreaths at the Remembrance Day Assembly
- Providing ideas and suggestions on how to create more enjoyable playtimes
Our Plans
Our plans this year 2019-20 are:
- Elect, train and establish a new School Council
- Organise events and fundraising for charities such as Children in Need
- Create a new School Council page on the website to include quotes from children and children's ideas
- Create more prominent roles for School Council members - assemblies and within the school community
- To continue to promote the profile of the School Council, ensuring it is the 'voice' of the school.