{"id":6617,"date":"2025-02-07T10:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:00:07","slug":"comhairle-nan-sgoilearan-pupil-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/2025\/02\/07\/comhairle-nan-sgoilearan-pupil-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Comhairle nan Sgoilearan \/ Pupil Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Pupil Council meets every Friday as part of &#8216;Committees&#8217; time to plan and carry out school improvements. Below is a summary of what Pupil Council have led on so far this session:<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 14px\">Gathering Views<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Created an online questionnaire to gather views of pupils as to what they would like to see for school improvement<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Launched the \u2018Bucas Beachdan\u2019 at assembly for pupil views \u2013 checked weekly at pupil groups and actioned<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\"><strong>Decider Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Worked with Maggie Drummond (alongside Play Monitors) to receive intensive training on Decider Skills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018Launched\u2019 Decider Skills through information session at assembly (for pupils) and at Family Learning Event (for parents\/family members)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\"><strong>Playground Improvements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wrote letter to the Parent Council asking for support to improve school playground \u2013 improved markings and trim trail requested<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Community partnership made with OMac to lay new Playground Markings purchased by \u00a0the Parent Council<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u00b7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Allocated available budget to be spent on new playground resources<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\"><strong>Playground Behaviour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wrote simple Playground Expectations to ensure clarity for all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Introduced the \u2018Red and Yellow Card\u2019 system to work alongside the Playground Expectations &amp; launched both at assembly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEM Area<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Worked with Angela MacAskill, UHI STEM Lead, to carry out an audit of all our STEM resources and created a &#8216;wish list&#8217; of new resources to be purchased.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Created a STEM\/Outdoor Learning Area with lots of resources pupils can use independently and to support teachers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\"><strong>Self Evaluation for School Improvement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">&#8211; Used hgiOURs Theme 2 \u2013 Teaching and Learning to conduct self evaluation \u2013 read over all the statements and categorised them by \u2018What we do well\u2019 and \u2018What we need to improve on\u2019.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 5px\" width=\"424\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Pupil Council meets every Friday as part of &#8216;Committees&#8217; time to plan and carry out school improvements. Below is a summary of what Pupil Council have led on so far this session: Gathering Views \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Created an online questionnaire to gather views of pupils as to what they would like to see for school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/2025\/02\/07\/comhairle-nan-sgoilearan-pupil-council\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comhairle nan Sgoilearan \/ Pupil Council<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comhairle-nan-sgoilearan-pupil-council","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions\/6717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}