Welcome to the Student Council Page!
2024 - 2025 School Council
Is to Inspire Everyone to REACH through
Faith, Hope & Love
We are the voice of the pupils.
We will aim to find ways to improve our school and inspire the pupils to be the best they/it can be.
To give every pupil a voice and to make all decision making fair.
School Council Voice
Chair - Alice
Co Chair - Kacper
Secretary - Olivia
Y6 Rep - Annabel
Each class from Y1 through to Y5 also have 2 reps each, Reception Reps will be elected after the Easter Break, this is to allow them to settle in. All of our Y6 School Council Representatives will be guiding and assisting the younger reps, helping them to build and grow their Resilience, Empathy, Aspirations, Confidence and encouraging them to have High Expectations in all they do to assist and represent their fellow classmates.
In response to the question 'How does being elected to the School Council make you feel?'
Alice - I'm really happy to be on School Council to make a difference.
Kacper - I will enjoy the chance to raise money.
Olivia - I'd love to make a difference to the school.
Annabel - I am proud to be making a difference to our school.
Mila - Happy
Poppy - Excited
Edith - I can help my class friends.
Henry - I am ready to help my class.
Amberlee - Happy to be chosen by my class.
Callum - Excited to have been chosen.
Millie - Happy that my class chose me.
Edward - Happy, as my sister was chair when she was here, I have a lot to live up to.
2022 - 2025 Big Project
For sometime now, we have regularly received requests for School Council to help with establishing a Prayer Garden here in the School grounds. Somewhere that give's us the opportunity outside of our classrooms and the church to have quiet reflection of our faith. We are very excited to begin work on this jointly with our Chaplaincy Team, Senior Leadership and Governors. Also, we will jointly ensure that we follow Catholic Social Teaching and the value of Community and Participation, we are very much looking forward to being able to invite Father Philip to bless the garden and the Marist Sisters to share the garden with us once it is completed.
Today we joined forces with chaplaincy team to start initial discussions on a joint project for this year. We are looking forward to the year ahead !!!
Today we met again to discuss fundraising ideas.
Today we tried to decide where the Prayer Garden could go. We eventually decided that the bottom right hand corner of the field would be the best place, as this this area would be quiet, and also allow us to see the Marist Centre, School & St Joseph's Church to help us with our reflection.
Today Y5 & 6 from School Council and Chaplaincy met to come up with a plan for Prayer Garden from all the ideas that we have gathered. Some children stayed in the class with Mrs Barron and came up with a basic drawing, whilst everyone else went outside with Mrs Jenkins to measure the area on the field where we'd like the Prayer Garden to be.
Thanks to Mr Barron we now have a proper drawing of our ideas. This can be seen on the School Council Noticeboard. We shared our ideas with Mrs Howells. We have now forwarded the plan to a gardener to get quotes. We'll keep you updated of our progress.
We are currently trying to get quotes for a design so that we can then look at applying for funding. In the meantime through Fruit Smoothies back in the summer and Tuckshop we currently have raise £300 to go towards this project.
We now have a quote for the work for which we are now looking at next steps for funding!
We are currently look at how we can redesign and revise our plans for the Prayer Garden, as our original idea is proving to be too costly. We will keep you all posted.
School Council along with Mrs Knights Reading Ambassadors and some of the Y4 Children held a fundraiser on World Book Day, where we sold Hot Chocolates at various points across the day, and also held a ' Reading Gives you Wings' Poster competition. In total we raised a total of £247 which has been split evenly between School Council/Chaplaincy for the Prayer Garden and Mrs Knight's Reading Ambassadors and Y4 for more books for the School Library. We massively underestimated how popular the Hot Chocolates would be, and would like to say a huge Thank you to all our Parents/Carers and children for your incredible support!
We have had several people in to quote for the Prayer Garden, they have either decided it's too much work or their quotes have been far too expensive. Mrs Howells did try to secure us some funding, which were were not successful with at the time from the Leigh Trust. School Council have raised £650 towards the cost from Tuckshop Profit 2022 to 2024, Fruit Smoothies 2023 and 2024, and Hot Chocolates on world Book Day. We will revisit the plans with Chaplaincy Team once the new School Council and Chaplaincy Teams have been elected in September.