Our School Council is made up of a boy and girl from each class. Election time includes the children presenting the reasons why they would like to be on the School Council to the rest of the class. All children then have the opportunity to vote. This helps enhance the children’s understanding of democracy. They meet once a month to discuss ongoing an upcoming projects.
You can read the current school council thoughts below:
What is it like being on the school council?
“I love being on the school council because it is nice to bring ideas together and make the school a better place for our community.”
“It is really nice to do fun things and make ideas into even better ideas.”
“It’s exciting, enjoyable and exhilarating.”
“It makes me feel very responsible.”
“You feel important because you get a chance to change the school and make things even better.”
What has been your favourite job since joining the school council?
“We entered a competition to name a real gritter. We came up with some names and then got the rest of the school to vote for the best ones.”
“When we all went outside to get votes from our friends to name the gritter.”
“We did a cool voting system to vote for a gritter name.”
“We won the gritter competition and now we have a real gritter and its name is Grit-Fire!”
“It was really cool meeting our gritter because we got to find out all about the different parts.”
“We got to sing a Christmas song on the radio.”
What else would you like to do as part of your role?
“I would like to make a difference to our community.”
“I would like to make our school even better than it is already.”
“I want to plan some fun games.”
“I want to spend more time planning things with my friends.”
“I’d like to organise a school talent show.”