School Council
We are on the School Council and we would like to talk to other children about how to improve our school.
We would like to find out how the children at Our Lady Of Grace feel about our School. We listen to your ideas about what makes the perfect school and write them down. We take them to Miss Corbett and see how we can start to make our School a great place to be.
School Council Policy and Aims
A School Council helps to ensure that pupils have:
• a safe, happy, fair learning environment
• a chance to voice any concerns and act upon them
• an opportunity to learn problem-solving skills
• a chance to take an active part in managing our school.
A School Council should encourage pupils to develop:
• a sense of ownership over policy and practice
• responsibility towards the school community and environment.
A School Council should give pupils experience of:
• Planning, organising and monitoring small projects
• Speaking and listening skills
• Negotiation skills
• Basic budgeting and managing money
A School Council should prepare pupils for citizenship by:
• teaching us about roles, rights and responsibilities within the school and in the community.
School Council 2009/10
WOW - Walk on Wednesdays Scheme
My name is Isabelle Merralls, chair of the school council and I would like to tell you about WOW days (Walk On Wednesdays) which we promoted at the beginning of this year.
The council prepared an assembly to promote gentle exercise, walk more and get more cars off the road to reduce pollution. We all had WOW t-shirts which had the walk to school logo on it and demonstrated to the school the importance to walk more and the benefits it could have on your health.
Every class has a tick chart to tick when they walk to school and at the end of the term the pupils get a certificate if they have walked every day. The class get a certificate to display which states the number of people who have walked on a Wednesday.
Now more people are walking and we are a healthier school. We would like to thank the pupils and parents who have supported us and made a big effort to walk more to school. We look forward to thinking of more interesting ways to travel to school and promote helping the environment.
