Meet Our School Council

Our school council with Councillor Kevin Osborne

We are the school councillors at St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School and we have been elected by our peers.

Article 12 of the Convention on Rights of the Child states

‘All children have the right to an opinion.’

We are the pupil voice for the children at our school and we communicate with other stakeholders on a regular basis. We are always willing and able to put forward, and consider, other people’s views in our meetings and share information with the school council teacher representative, head of school and other members of staff. 

We meet on a regular basis to help with decisions about school life, and we represent the school at meetings or outside events. We also organise projects that support learning and development, such as charity events and awareness days.

School council aims:

• To meet regularly to share our views.
• To organise whole school and class events.
• To organise charity days.
• To ensure that our school is a happy and safe place for everyone.
• To ensure children have a place to voice their concerns, opinions, and thoughts.
• To encourage all children in school to suggest ideas and improvements.
• To ensure any suggestions or concerns are listened to and acted upon.

Role and Responsibilities
(Written and agreed by all members of the school council)

We are all:

• Approachable - we are friendly faces.
• Good listeners – everyone should feel comfortable talking to us.
• Organised – it is our responsibility to make sure that we meet on a regular basis.
• Efficient – we discuss issues and plan events during our meetings.
• Fair – everyone has the right to express their point of view.
• Good communicators – we work with staff and children across the whole school.

KS1 Ambassadors

Key Responsibilities:

• To be available as a playground friend.
• To model and promote kindness and good behaviour.
• To represent KS1 pupils at meetings by gathering and relaying their ideas and opinions.

Environment Ambassadors

Key Responsibilities:

• To report any concerns about the school environment to a member of staff.
• To encourage others to take care of the school environment and be a role-model for this.
• To turn off lights when not in use.
• To ensure that unused milk cartons are returned to the fridge to avoid waste.
• To write an eco-code for our school and refer to it throughout the year.

Wellbeing Ambassadors

Key Responsibilities:

• To complete the wellbeing ambassador training.
• To be a friend when someone needs a friend.
• To promote positive mental health and raise awareness of mental health problems.
• To support and organise specific events and celebrate mental health awareness days.
• To lead a range of activities within the school that promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
• To signpost pupils to access support in our school.
• To share good news stories.

Reading Ambassadors

Key Responsibilities:

• To promote a love of reading.

• To support others with book recommendations.

• To offer suggestions about how to further develop reading for pleasure in our school.

• To help to plan and organise reading events.

• To ensure corridor bookshelves are tidy and encourage others to do the same.

• To raise the profile of the school library.

• To help to manage and promote the KS2 Book Swap.

• To evaluate classroom reading areas and contribute ideas for development.

Digital Ambassador

Key Responsibilities:

• To test out new ICT resources, which could be websites, software or   hardware.

• To share our skills and expertise with other children, classes and teachers.

• To help to set up ICT equipment in classrooms for teachers when needed.

• To make sure that the laptops and iPads are placed correctly in the storage trolley and that the trolley is kept tidy.

• To help and support teachers and classes to use ICT in the classroom.

• To help to make sure that other pupils know about e-safety and to help adults to develop rules to help children stay safe when on the internet.

• To be a role model to other children in the correct and sensible use of all technology currently used in our school.