Y6 councillors- out of school visit.

Ashley Williams (5B)

Matters Arising

• Permission slips for early dinner

Some councillors have noticed that some pupils have lied to the dinner supervisors to go in early for their dinner pretending that they are doing jobs for teachers. Mrs Thompson addressed council about having a permission slip to give to the dinner supervisor which would have to be signed by teaching staff. She also told council that this idea did come up before in council and passed permission slip around for all councillors to look at and would have one printed out to show the head teacher.

Mrs Thompson addressed councils about which pupils do need to go in early for their dinner and as follows:

• Blog/ Media club- permission given by teachers.
• Class monitors- permission by teachers.
• Library monitors- permission given by Mrs Stephenson only.

Other pupils do go into dinner early to help dinner supervisors:

• Dinner hall monitors
• Playground monitors- permission given by Mrs Ridley/ Mrs Snell.
• Corridor monitors.

A.O.B

Council are quite concerned over finding out some pupils’ tuck shop money is going missing. They thought a good class rule is that each class teacher would keep a box to put all pupils’ purses/wallets in to keep safe and give out when tuck shop is on.

Apologies

Lola- Mai Tomlinson (3K)

Matters Arising

• Curriculum/ the changes of the school day

Mrs Thompson addressed the council that a request from Mrs Sargent, would like to know how our pupils feel about the new school day with having some assemblies at the end of the day. Lessons in the morning with Numeracy been taught first and the other changes.

Most councillors felt that they were still getting used to the changes. Some were quite pleased that Numeracy was taught first as this was their favourite lesson of the day and others were saddened as this was their weakest subject and it put a damper on their day. Some councillors were quite happy with the changes.

• Dinner hall rule

Vice chair addressed council about a dinner hall rule: when you sit down in a place, you should remain seated in this place until you have finished your lunch. Is this rule fair or unfair? Most councillors thought that this rule was fair. One councillor disagreed as they explained that sometimes when there isn’t a seat you have to sit on a bench and wait for a seat and take the next seat when it comes available and felt if you got sat next to someone you do not like or know.

• Dinner Lines

The Chairman addressed the council about the packed lunch line on the playground to how it is situated as it is unsafe been near the basketball court. Some pupils tend to join in on the ball games and the chair addressed council about having the line turned so it is against the wall.

Councillors’ feedback was that the packed lunch line had already been moved to this position and now was safer.

A.O.B

A few upper school councillors addressed council that some pupils were lying to dinner supervisors by telling them they had jobs to do for teaching staff to have their dinners first. Mrs Thompson addressed council that this issue came up two years ago and the council then had a permission slip idea and she would bring a copy of this to the next meeting to show.

       Leon Leaning

3T- Libby Crichton

       Oliver Easton

4S- Chloe White

      Kameron Cullen

4J- Katie Concannon

       Andrew Hall

5B- Chloe Hunt

       Ashley Williams

5S- Rose Campbell

      Daniel Bristow

6B- Lucy Young

       Jayden Gollings

6E- Katie Fong

        Lewis Dawes

Chairman- Jayden Gollings

Vice Chairman- Katie Concannon.

Apologies

All concillors attended, Demi-Leigh came late.

Minutes

Council Surgery-  Our first surgery on Monday 1st June went well as all classteachers had told all their classes. In all council had 8 issue requests posted in the box but nobody wanted to talk to the councillors taking the surgery. On Wednesday when Mrs Thompson met with the vice chairman to set this meeting agenda we had a look at all 8 requests and there were only 3 worth discussing.

• More Disclipline- A councillor suggested that some class teachers do give a verbal warning first but some don’t and put the pupils’ name up on the board and they think this is not fair. Majority of the council thought that discipline is fair in the school and disagrees with this request been given.
• Pet Day- Mrs Thompson addressed council and they believe it wouldn’t be allowed and think  the school insurance wouldn’t cover this event to have pets in school and also .safety reasons of what type of animal would be bought in to how dangerous they are? so again council disagrees with this request.
• Name Calling/ Bullying- Council seem to believe that there will always be a problem with name calling and bullying as it happens in all schools.

Our second surgery held on Monday 8th June didn’t go well at all as most pupils had already forgotten so Mrs Thompson to make posters to go up around school.

 A.O.B

Year 6 Corridor at Home time- at home time this corridor is far too busy as Year 6 pupils are leaving and our younger pupils and parents are entering through the same door to collect packed lunch boxes. Council feel that one day someone is going to get badly hurt as pupils are pushing and shoving each other. What do we suggest to do instead to make this safer for everyone?

Council suggestions

• Can Year 6 pupils leave through the Y5 corridor at hometime?
• Send each class on a rota system early to go and collect their packed lunch boxes and return to their class?
• Why should Parents come in through this door and if they are coming to talk to a class teachers, can they through reception instead?
• Could we move packed lunch sheves to have each in each year group corridor?
• Can each year group have a trolley in their unit to keep their packed lunch boxes on so will the new head teacher buy 4 new trolleys?

A year 6 corridor safety issue- why do we have pegs put up which behind a door?

Demi-Lee Dolby(6B)

Demi Goodwin(5St)

Callum Goodwin(5T)

Minutes

Mrs Thompson addressed the council to announce the results of our secret ballot held for a new chairman to step in until the end of the summer term- new chairman is Ted Godfrey-Warner.

Again mainly to go over the same minutes we had at our last meeting regarding communication between class councilors and their class teachers to the reason we are starting a Council Surgery.

Council Surgery- To hold every Monday morning playtime in the doorway of Year 6 unit. Mrs Thompson will write a notice to go out to each teacher to start as soon as we come back after the half term on Monday 1st June. To hold our first session on the first day back.

What we need for sugery- A box for pupils to posts any issues/concerns if they don’t want to discuss with councillors. Scrap paper and pencils and the councilors on hand need paper & pencils to make notes.

Rota- Monday 1st June- Ted and Jordan-leigh.

          Monday 8th June- Katie and Kai.

          Monday 15th June-Connor and Scarlett.

          Monday 22nd June- Elliott and Demi G.

          Monday 29th June- Saskia and Kallium.

          Monday 6th July- Abbie and Daniel.

          Monday 13th July- Harry and Katie.

End of Meeting closed. No A.O.B.

Kai May (3B)

Minutes

We had a secret ballot/vote for a new chairman within the council, as Cameron left and moved school at Easter.

Candidates were as follows

Abbie Nicholls, Connor Stevenson, Demi-Lee Dolby, Devon Randerson, Demi and Callum Goodwin, Ted Godfery-Warner,Kallium Snelson and Katie Fong.

Each councillor came up and voted confidentally giving their slip to Mrs Thompson. She will tally after the meeting and tell the chosen candidate.

Results

Chairman- Ted Godfrey-Warner with 5 votes

Abbie Nicholls-4 votes              Devon Randerson & Demi Goodwin – 2 votes.

Demi-Lee Dolby, Connor Stevenson, Callum Goodwin and Katie Fong- all 1 vote each.

Kallium Snelson- 0 votes.

A.O.B.

Communication between councillor and class teacher

Mrs Thompson addressed school council about Classteachers spending time with their class discussing school council matters, so other pupils can get involved and raise their issues. Only 2 class teachers do discuss school council with their class and their councillors do bring back feedback for various matters.

Mrs Thompson addressed school council again to ask how many councillors approach their class teachers themselves to ask if their teacher will discuss matters. Again only 2 councillors came forward and have asked their teachers. Mrs Thompson addressed council again that being a school councillor is an important role in school and communication is poor between school councillor and teacher.

Soon to start an school council surgery one playtime every week over the next few weeks were all pupils are invited to pop along to raise their concerns/issues either verbally or written. Mrs Thompson will sort a rota for councillors to be picked to do the surgery. Meeting ran over, so this ongoing in to the next meeting.

School Council will have another meeting this coming Tuesday just to make final adjustments to the final questionaire before meeting the headteachers applicants next Wednesday.

School Council/ Mrs Thompson.

Since starting this year team last September, we have had afew changes with pupils changing round and some leaving our school.

Year 3

3B   Scarlett Turrell, Kai May

3Burg Elliott Sweeney, Katie Concannon

Year 4

4J Daniel Sewell, Jordan Leigh Hastings (Vice Chairman)

4K Saskia Garner, Dylan Ryar

Year 5

5S Katie Fong, Harry Cook

5St Demi Goodwin, Kallium Snelson

5Ti Callum Goodwin, Devon Randerson

Year 6

6B Demi-Lee Dolby, Ted Godfrey- Warner

6E Abbie Nicholls, Connor Stevenson.

We need to nominate a new chairman over the next few weeks. 

Abbie Nicholls(6E)

Welcome new class councillor for 3B- Scarlett Turell ( Molly as moved schools)

Minutes

Feedback about playground equipment discussed 13/02/09.  Spoke to both Mrs Snell & Mrs Ridley. If equipment was to be kept in the classroom again, then would class councillors want to be responsible for it? had a group vote in council and results were 50/50 so this needs to be ongoing and discussed at next meeting. One councillor suggested that the equipment should be clearly labelled or marked with an permanent marker.

A.O.B

Dinner supervisors- one councillor complained about when pupils line up each day outside that some pupils push and argue and dinner supervisor on duty never does anything to resolve this. Mrs Thompson addressed council and would this matter on to the dinner supervisors.

3B councillors- Both Kieran Miller and Caitlin Phillipson are absent.

5S Joseph Wytche came late.

Minutes

Feedback from councillors attended Video Conference/ Improving the Playground.

 Jayden Gollings, Caitlin Squires and Lloyd Sparkes attended a video conference in school conferencing with three other local schools to discuss what they think about their own school playgrounds. The other schools that took part in this conference were St. Josephs, Middlethorpe and Signhills.

 Ideas what our councillors liked from the other school playground:

Signhills the pupils have a boom-box that is looked after by Year 6 monitors which goes out into the playground and pupils can bring their own C.D’s to play and listen to at playtimes.

St.Josephs- their playground is just like ours.

Middlethorpe They have a trimline which is mini assault course with tyre swings, a racing track were they can use remote control cars, tennis court and magnetic large board games, painted wall games and nature garden where they have a seating / quiet area. Pupils can also have a choice if they don’t want to go outside and go in an activity room supervised by Teaching Assistants.

After the holidays our three councillors are hoping to visit the schools to look at their playgrounds and bring back more feedback on ways to improve our playground.

A.O.B

 A request for dinner supervisors- are we allowed the plastic goal posts out of the shed to use on the field when dry at dinner time and target with grip balls?

In the Dinner hall pupils are throwing their food around when the supervisors are trying to stop this, pupils are been rude back to them and pupils are been very rude to our new dinner lady- Mrs Morgan and not respecting her.