School Council |

Agenda : Tuesday 24th April 2012

Apologies for absence from

Minutes of the meeting held on

a) Are they agreed as an accurate record?

b) Matters arising from last meeting’s minutes

This meetings business:

1) Feedback from the teachers Enterprise questionnaire

2) Decide on questions for class council to ask children about Enterprise

3) Feedback from Kenan-treasurer regarding School Council money

Any other business?

Our School Council supports the Bank End Community in becoming a better place to learn, laugh and grow together.

The School Council, which represents the pupil voice in school, has just had another successful term, the focus of which was raising some money for itself, and the schools chosen charity, Cancer Research UK. The £236.40 raised from our fun reading dress up day, reading quiz, and Easter Fayre Cafe, will be split equally between the charity and school. This means that this half term the School Council will be focussing its work on what to spend the money on, and how to continue to raise funds for itself.

The School Council has a treasurer, who will be meeting with Mrs Higgins, the School Business Manager, so there will be report from him for School Council. The secretary will continue to take the minutes of the meetings, which are usually held once a fortnight, and we will be exploring ways of getting the minutes, along with the agendas, onto the School Council blog.

The most important work though is getting all the views and opinions of the pupils and other people in school, and finding a way to do things that support the school and the children in becoming the best that they can be. So this term School Council will be doing some of Miss Bowers assemblies with her to make sure that the whole school is informed on what is going on, and they will also continue to meet with the class councils that have been set up in every class this last term.

Something else that School Council will be thinking about this term is Enterprise. The Council members have done questionnaires with their class teachers, they will also be talking to the pupils, and looking at ways of finding out what parents and carers think about it, so that this interesting and fun area of the school curriculum can continue to grow from strength to strength.

Agenda : Wednesday 22nd February 2012

Time: 1pm

Place: The Zone

Apologies for absence from

Minutes of the meeting held on

a) Are they agreed as an accurate record?

b) Matters arising from last meeting’s minutes

This meetings business:

1) Organisation of fundraising events-information from committee group/quiz group

2) What information have we gathered about how to support school with our current priority? (Enterprise)

Any other business?

Agenda : Friday 20th January 2012

Time: 2pm

Place: The Zone

Apologies for absence from

Minutes of the meeting held on

a) Are they agreed as an accurate record?

b) Matters arising from last meeting’s minutes

This meetings business:

1)Discussion about fundraising event needs to be something
that won’t take a lot of learning time, or take too much
organisation but will raise a lot of money.
2)What work do we need to do to support school on this terms priority? (Enterprise)

Any other business?

Agenda: Friday 2nd December 2011

Time: 1pm

Place: The Zone

Apologies for absence from

Minutes of the meeting held on

a) Are they agreed as an accurate record?

b) Matters arising from last meeting’s minutes

This meetings business:

Discussion about role play areas-classes to be asked:

Do you want a role play area
How should it be used

Ideas for fundraising event

Any other business?

School Council Action Plans…

Two new action plans have been created for School Council committees

You can view them by clicking the links below…

Action Plan
Action Plan Outdoors

School Council Agenda Thursday 3rd November 2011

Time: 2pm
Place: Staff room

Apologies for absence from

Minutes of the meeting held on
a) Are they agreed as an accurate record?
b) Matters arising from last meeting’s minutes

This meetings business:
1) Look at committee action plans
2) Discussion about role play areas
3) Talk from Miss J Stevens about the role of school governors

Any other business?

School Council Agenda Wednesday 19th October 2011

Time: 2pm

Place: Staff room

Apologies for absence

Minutes of the meeting held on

a) Are they agreed as an accurate record?

b) Matters arising from last meeting’s minutes

This meetings business:

1) Discussion about playtimes and lunchtime-what do year groups want?

2) Discussion about fundraising-who/what/when/how

3) Set School Council action plans

Any other business?

School council

The school council has published its vision statement, constitution and agenda.

Click on the links or images to view them…


Our Vision	Our Constitution

Vision
Our School Council supports the Bank End Community in Becoming a better place to learn, laugh and grow together.

Our Purpose
We are here to be the voice of the pupils, to work in partnership with others in the Barnsley community and raise money to support our school.

Our Members
We have 2 elected representatives from each year group from year 2 to year 6. Each year vote at the end of the Summer term from those that put themselves forward. There is 1 boy and 1 girl from each year.
For EYFS and year 1, children in year 5 or 6 who wish to represent the younger children write to the staff and EYFS/year 1 children who then decide who they would like to represent them. There are 2 representative for year 1, and 3 representatives for EYFS.
The Deputy Head is the link teacher for school staff.
If a representative is on the sanction board above stage 4 then the rest of school council vote as to whether they should stay as a council member.
If they are on the sanction board 3 times in a term, or if they are absent for 3 meetings in a term, for whatever reasons, their class can decide whether they should stay as their representative.

Executive Board
On the board there is a Chair, Vice-chair, Secretary, Treasurer and Vice-secretary. They can be any council representative, and are voted for by the school council.

Meetings
Meetings will be held at least fortnightly. They will usually be in the afternoon, and held in the staff room.
The meetings can go ahead as long as at least 2 members of the Executive board are present. There needs to be at least 8 members of council at the meeting for it to be quorum.
During a meeting we will stay focussed on Agenda items and not discuss individual pupils or adults.
Decisions will be made by a majority vote.

Finances
School council will have some funds from the school budget, which we will increase through fundraising events. We will only spend money on things that the school want such as trips and events, or resources for indoors and outdoors.