Friday Update – 25th June 2021

Dear Parents and Carers,

This time of year is when our Year 5 children consider whether they would like to apply to be on the School Council in Year 6. However, over the past couple of months, we have transformed the way all our children’s voices are heard.

Using the Smart School Councils approach, all children from Nursery to Year 6 are involved in weekly class meetings and debates. The children discuss a wide range of topics through weekly questions; these questions also come from the children. So far this term, the children have discussed and voted on a wide range of issues including:

• What equipment would you like to see on the playground?
• What do you do to stay healthy?
• If your class won the best attendance prize, what would you like the reward to be?
• Which of these three topics should be on our eco school action plan (litter picking and clearing the school grounds, biodiversity or making our school more environmentally friendly)?

The Smart School Council motto is ‘Involving every voice’ which I think perfectly captures the essence and importance of this improvement in our school.

If you would like to find out more, please visit the Smart School Council website https://home.smartschoolcouncils.org.uk/.

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs A Whistler

Headteacher

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