Blog by Tag: School Council

Thank you to everyone who donated clothes for the Great North Air Ambulance, which is Class 5's chosen charity. The donations were collected on Tuesday, and we all enjoyed helping to carry them out to the van. 

Our School Council organised a toy sale to raise money for our school. What a success it was! A huge array of different toys and books were on offer. It was also a chance for children to learn the concepts of shopping, buying and how to manage their own money.

Our Year 5 candidates all campaigned hard to win votes to be elected for the school council. They said they would be good listeners and take requests from the children to School Council meetings in order to help improve our school. It was a close result but congratulations to Kyden and Daisy for…

Year 6 placed their votes before supervising the other classes as they came to place their votes.

After hearing some very thoughtful manifestos, we narrowed down our Year 3 candidates with a vote. Children placed their ballot papers in a sealed box to elect 2 School Councillors from our class. 
A massive congratulations to Paige-Louise and Ivy who won the vote and will represent Year 3 as…

Year 2 have been voting for the two members of the class they would like to represent them in the School Council during this academic year. Every child casted their votes and cannot wait to find out the result of the ballot to see who the School Councillors will be.

We are delighted to show off our new school football kit which will be worn by pupils attending sports tournaments. Earlier this year our School Councillors organised a toy sale in school in order to raise money to buy the kit. We raised a staggering £680 so we were able to go ahead and buy this…

Year 1 enjoyed voting in their first School Election. Those who volunteered to be candidates gave speeches to explain why they would make good councillors. We then held a vote and used an ‘X’ on the voting slips to make our choices. Year 6 helped to organise the voting. The votes were counted and…

Y6 have been learning about the importance of democracy and local government. Many children in the class campaigned to be members of the school Council with excellent manifestos about how they can improve our school and community. After a very close vote, Riley and Lily were voted in as our new…

Today the Y5 children voted for who they wanted to represent them as a class on the School Council. The children who wanted to be considered all prepared speeches explaining why they would be good for the job. The two children elected are excited to start their new role. 

Year 3 voted for their class councillors after hearing individual manifestos. They made their votes in a ballot organised by Year 6. 

The children in school from Y1-Y6 have been learning about the importance of democracy in preparation for our annual School Council election which was held this afternoon. Y6 organised the election and assisted the younger children with patience and care. Well done everyone…..results will be…