Coxhoe Primary School

What is School Council?

We value the opinions of our pupils and the School Council gives pupils a forum to share these opinions about school life.

A new school council is elected each year, with every class from Y2 to Y6 nominating representatives. These meet at least half termly, often monthly.

2024 - 2025

Our School Council

Representatives 24-25

DATE OF NEXT MEETING:

20th November 2024

What we are doing?

November 2024 meeting

In our November meeting we talked about our most recent apperance at Coxhoe's Remembrance service and discussed what we liked about it, many of the children were really proud that they were given this responsibilty. We discussed the possibility of KS2 children receiving healthy fruit snacks from school a couple of times per week due to the benefits linked to healthy eating. The School Council collected votes on this to decide which fruits and vegetables would be most popular. Finally, we discussed some fundraising ideas to improve our schol in the new year. 

The School Council, Head pupils and Deputy Head pupils worked hard to create several wreaths to place down during the Remembrance service in the village. They created a red one for the soldiers, a purple one for the animals and a white one to symbolise peace.

October 2024 meeting

We met today to ensure we had actioned everything from our previous meeting. As you can see, our beautiful suggestion boxes are up and running and our classmates are using them effectively. We shared our feeback from the boxes and discussed how we are going to improve playtimes. We then moved on to do discussing how we will fundraise for Children in Need. Some ideas included: crazy hair day, non-uniform day or even a sponsored run/walk. We will take our suggestions back to our class and meet again on Wednesday to make the final decision. What would you choose?

September 2024 meeting

In September's meeting, we discussed our upcoming plans for the year. We decided that each class will have an anonymous suggestion box where all members of the class can post their ideas, worries and concerns. We also talked about online safety and how we can improve the awareness of this throughout school. Finally, we made a group decision that we would gather feedback on our current playground equipment and that we would present our findings at the next School Council meeting. 

2023 - 2024

Our School Council Representatives 23-24

DATE OF NEXT MEETING:

September 2024

What we are doing?

July 2024

The School Council representatives met with Mrs Bartle and Mrs Duffy to reflect upon their year in their important roles. They dicussed what they had enjoyed about the role and how it could be made better for the next group of School Council who will be elected in September. They discussed that it would be helpful to have regular reminders of their assignment for that month, have a consistent meeting point and to plot out the meetings in a shared calendar for children and teachers across the year. The children are keen to lead an assembly in Septemeber to inform potential candiates about the roles and responsibilites of being a Coxhoe School Council representative. 

April 2024

The School Council met with Chartwells to hold a School Nutrition Action Group (SNAG).  They did an amazing job of sharing pupil voice, identifying strengths of our school lunches as well as things they would like to see improved. The Chartwells manager was extremely impressed with how the children were able to hold a mature and balanced discussion.

Suggestions included: refreshed salad bar for children on a later sitting, hydration station brough back to the hall (water infused with fresh fruit),  separating the fruit/biscuit dessert so that the biscuit stays crisp. 

February 2024

The school currently has a school dog, stick insects and fish; they brought feedback from their peers with suggestions for other school pets. The children discussed the advantages and disadvatages of school pets.  

January 2024

School Council gathered information from their classes and feedback:

What clubs they would like in the future?

Dojos - feedback on what is offered in their box, new ideas for vouchers

What do the children think of outdoor equipment and the rotas for play times? 

School staff and leadership team have made the following changes in response:

Clubs offer adapted to include some of the new suggestions for summer term

Iddeas for Dojo Dip vouchers fedback to all staff - more varied in each class now.

New equipment order for playtime to include more varied balls and bettre access to the tyre

Rotas for playtime to include more time of adventure trail for all.  Now displayed in a lrage formt on doors. 

Autumn 2 Update

School Council shared their feedback from the children across school:

• Democracy is in action in lots of school life. Examples include: school council roles, other job roles in the class, choices of books they ready, choices of activities, after school clubs they are offered
• Other ideas for democracy included:  what to do for special events  &  exploring class pets 

October Update

School Council tell us what our pupils say about:

• Democracy opportunities in our school

Our first meeting was held in September and we discussed:

• Dojos
• School Councillor's role