We have a new School Council

We have a new School Council…

Well done to everyone elected and make sure you wear your shiny, yellow badges with pride!

What a lot of things we seem to have done so far:

Our first task was to help Mrs Meade at the Macmillan Coffee and Cake afternoon, setting up the hall, serving delicious looking cakes, looking after the donations and giving out stickers.  Our generous parents gave a grand total of £308.68.  Here are some photos of our café…

Mrs Pattrick has recently asked all the children in school about the values they consider important at Crabtree. 

‘What is it that makes our school such a special place?’

 After voting for their favourite value the School Council counted all the votes.  The most popular value was:

‘Caring’

We have discussed what ‘caring’ means to us and those ideas will be put into a word cloud and displayed around the school. 

Then on Friday 14^th November it was…Children In Need!

In a recent meeting the children had lots of fun painting a giant Pudsey Bear for our ‘Children In Need’ assembly.  They wanted everyone to come to school in their pyjamas and to bring their super-hero teddies and a donation in with them.  During the assembly Mrs Meade invited everyone to put their coins on Pudsey, making his pyjamas even spottier!  We raised a grand total of £210.70.  Thank you everyone.

The following week The Rotary Club came to collect the shoe boxes filled by our children,  to be sent to other children less fortunate than ourselves.  The School Council were on hand to carry the boxes into the van.  It was hard work!

School Council update

School Council Minutes –  meeting held 21^st May 2014

Today we took our meeting to the Junior School where we held a joint meeting with the junior school councillors. 

 

We got to know each other by saying our names and year groups.  Year 5 were unable to join us because they were on their school journey.

 

The Infant councillors started the meeting by sharing with everyone what they have been doing so far in their role as councillors:

 

•    We had our photos taken for our display.

•    We have helped Mrs Roberson to sort the books in the library into old books, tatty books and books that have more than one copy.

•  Mr Jones from Herts Catering came to ask us our opinions about school dinners. 

 

The junior councillors then told us about the jobs that they have been carrying out:

•  They have asked their classes to decide on a hamster or a rabbit  as a possible school pet.

•   A letter will be written to the Chair of Governors inviting him to a meeting to discuss the possibility of a school pet.

• They are planning an assembly to the whole school about the new pet.

•   Problems arising in class are taken and discussed in their meetings.  As a result new soap was purchased for the toilets.

•  The children wanted to do more experiments in science so Miss Simmons is now running a science club.  

•      Suggestions about music for the school disco have been collected and given to the DJ.

As a special treat we all went to the pond to see the ducklings who are now 10 days old.  They are still going everywhere with mum who protects them from the weather by tucking all 14 of them under her wings!  They will be taken down to Batford Springs when they are 6 weeks old to be released into the wild.

 

 

 

Coming Next...

We are now preparing for our 'Biscuit Decorating Stall' at the Summer Fayre on 28th June.  The children have been busy drawing some biscuits and making price labels for the stall.  We look forward to seeing everyone there...come and decorate your own delicious biscuit!