{"id":10670,"date":"2025-08-27T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=10670"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:10:09","slug":"smart-school-council-now-pupil-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/08\/27\/smart-school-council-now-pupil-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart School Council is now\u2026 Cathedral Pupil Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10662\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/smart-school-council\/img_7493\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/27142602\/IMG_7493.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,385\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_7493\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/27142602\/IMG_7493-300x96.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/27142602\/IMG_7493-1024x329.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10662\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/27142602\/IMG_7493-1024x329.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/27142602\/IMG_7493-1024x329.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/27142602\/IMG_7493-300x96.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/27142602\/IMG_7493-768x246.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/27142602\/IMG_7493.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>Following pupil consultation, \u2018Smart School Council\u2019 has been rebranded <span style=\"color: #339966\"><strong>Cathedral Pupil Parliament<\/strong><\/span> and restructured to help Cathedral pupils learn in a real-life way about how Scotland is governed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\"><strong>Cathedral Pupil Parliament<\/strong><\/span> will continue to give EVERY Cathedral pupil a voice and, under the leadership of our twelve elected House Captains, help drive forward further change and improvement in Cathedral Primary.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\"><strong>Cathedral Pupil Parliament<\/strong><\/span> will be organised in a similar way to the Scottish Parliament, with our House Captains forming the <strong>Cabinet<\/strong> and leading our six <strong>Directorates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning<\/li>\n<li>Faith<\/li>\n<li>Health<\/li>\n<li>Equality<\/li>\n<li>Sustainability<\/li>\n<li>Finance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every Cathedral pupil will continue to participate in a fortnightly <strong>Class Council<\/strong> meeting when a particular topic will be discussed. Everyone\u2019s views and ideas will be recorded electronically and sent to our House Captains for discussion. Based on this information, our <strong>Cabinet Secretaries<\/strong> (House Captains) will form short-term committees to take forward current projects and priorities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\"><strong>Cathedral Pupil Parliament<\/strong> <\/span>will have its official launch at assembly on Monday 1st September. We\u2019re very excited about this fresh look to pupil voice and pupil leadership here at Cathedral!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following pupil consultation, \u2018Smart School Council\u2019 has been rebranded Cathedral Pupil Parliament and restructured to help Cathedral pupils learn in a real-life way about how Scotland is governed. Cathedral Pupil Parliament will continue to give EVERY Cathedral pupil a voice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/08\/27\/smart-school-council-now-pupil-parliament\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10670"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10694,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670\/revisions\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}