Childrens Zone: School Council

 

The School Council is made up of  1 child from each class in Years 2-6. The Councillors are elected by their peers and represent their classes' views, concerns and ideas. The Year 6 Councillors also have the special job of representing the Foundation Stage and Year 1 classes. The School Council meets every 2 - 3 weeks, although sometimes we meet more often if we have issues or events to sort out. There are suggestion boxes in each class which are brought along to meetings where any ideas inside are discussed.

We have a strong link with the Leicester Animal Rescue Centre. We raise money by running a stall at the summer fete and we organize a collection of food for the animals at Christmas time. We usually visit the Centre in the Summer Term.

We also coordinate the raising of money for a sponsored child who is supported by the charity EveryChild.  We used to sponsorTsiyon, a little girl in Ethiopia, but the project that she is part of is now funded independently of sponsorship. Therefore we have recently heard that our new sponsored child is a little girl called Lyaniso. She lives in Malawi and will soon be 5 years old. We will be writing to her shortly and sharing some of the work we do in school. Thank you to everyone who brings in money to support her sponsorship. If we can all bring in just a penny a week, this can make a real difference to her life.