Welcome to the Pupil Council page! 

Here are our minutes from our recent meetings:

 

31.8.22

Points from previous meeting: 

n/a 

Main discussion points from today: 

  • Welcome and introduction 

What changes would we like to make in our school this year: 

  • Encourage more wildlife into our woods by making bird feeders, bird houses, hedgehog homes, etc. 
  • More equipment for the playground: football equipment, slide or swing, etc. 
  • Fix the buddy bench/encourage others to use it more 
  • Quiet time area 
  • Movie day 
  • Sports day where each house verses each other 
  • Help our local community by conducting a litter pick. 

Focus Article: 

Article 1: Definition of a child 

A child is any person under the age of 18. 

Article 3:  Best interests of the child 

When adults make decisions, they should think about how their decisions will affect children. All   adults should do what is best for children. Governments should make sure children are protected and looked after by their parents, or by other people when this is needed. Governments should make sure that people and places responsible for looking after children are doing a good job.  

Action Points:  

  • Report back to class on discussion and ask classmates which ideas interest them most. 

 

 

05.10.22

Points from previous meeting: 

  • After discussing what things we would like to improve in our school we settled on focusing on the buddy bench and encouraging children to use it again in the playground. 

 

Main discussion points from today: 

    • We discussed how we could encourage people to use the buddy bench in our playground. 
    • We plan to tell the school about the buddy bench at assembly soon. Zara, Evie Willow and Sophie will tell the school about our plan. 
    • The pupil council members will look out for anyone using the buddy bench and will give out house points to children who have helped someone who was sitting on the bench (by telling the teacher of the child). 
    • We created some posters to remind people of our aim. 

Focus Article: 

Article 24: Health, water, food, environment 

Children have the right to the best health care possible, clean water to drink, healthy food and a clean and safe environment to live in. All adults and children should have information about how to stay safe and healthy. 

Action Points:  

  • Children will give feedback to their classmates, and we will plan a presentation for a future assembly. 

26.10.22

Points from previous meeting:

  • Last week we discussed how we could spread the word about the buddy bench and agreed we should tell the school at assembly. 

Main discussion points from today: 

  • We decided to work with the Health and Wellbeing group as they were also focussing on the buddy bench. 
  • We discussed what we will say at assembly and planned with HWB group. 
  • We agreed we should update our pupil council board with out posters and information about the buddy benches. 
  • We continued to make some posters. 

Focus Article:

Article 24: Health, water, food, environment 

Children have the right to the best health care possible, clean water to drink, healthy food and a clean and safe environment to live in. All adults and children should have information about how to stay safe and healthy. 

Action Points:  

  • Children will give feedback to their classmates. 
  • Miss Kearney and Miss Jamieson will check with Mr O’Neill that it is okay to tell the school of our plan at assembly. 
  • The speakers from pupil council (Zara, Willow, Evie, Sophie) and from HWB (Jac, Olivia, Sophia and Zacky) will present our information at assembly. 

2023/2024

Wednesday 30th August 2023

Please click the link below to view the minutes from our first meeting.

Pupil Council Minutes 30.8.23

Pupil Group Meeting – 26.10.22

The Health and Wellbeing group has a very busy morning! We discussed the importance of promoting good health and wellbeing in our school. The group decided that this meeting would focus on good mental health and wellbeing and making sure everyone in the school had a friend. We decided to do this by promoting the buddy benches in the school playground.

Please see a copy of our meeting minutes below.

26.10.22 – Minutes

 

Literacy Group Meeting

 

Session 2023/2024

We were delighted to meet the newest members of the Literacy Ambassadors pupil voice group.  We had a very productive first meeting and can’t wait to get started on our Gold Reading Award.

30 August 23

29 November 23

 

Session 2022/2023

Literacy Pupil Group Meeting Minutes

27 Apr 23

22 Feb 23

28 Sep 22

26 Oct 22

April 2023 – Reading Schools Award Silver

We are delighted to have been awarded our Silver Reading Schools Award. This is all down to our amazing Literacy Pupil Group and the hard work they have put in to redeveloping our library, ordering new book titles, setting up the library and promoting reading within our school!

January 2023

The Pupil Group met today in the School Library and we spotted the things we liked in it.

We love the new rug and the colourful cushions.

It is good to sit on the sofa and read.

The library is cool.

The children spent time looking at Authors Live and have asked teachers to watch some clips with the whole class.

You can watch these at home too with the following link:

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors-live-on-demand

 

 

We have had a busy month.

Firstly, we have begin our daily Reading Buddies. Pupils share stories with each other every day after lunch.

Next, Room 14 made their book recommendations at Assembly. We look forward to hearing recommendations from other classes over the weeks to come.

Room 18 visited the Town Library on Monday-each week classes will be walking to the Town House to meet Elaine, the children’s librarian.

Finally, the annual Book Fair has arrived. Many children have already had a look through the shelves and are excited about reading novels that interest them.

See the attached note of our latest Pupil Voice Meeting.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sl/public/chatelheraultprimaryschool/uploads/sites/13973/2022/10/05141044/Literacy-group-5th-October-22.docx

 

Total Communication Pupil Group Minutes 31.8.22

It was lovely to welcome everyone to our first Total Communication pupil group of the session. We got to know each other and discussed what total communication means and what it should look like in our school. We also talked about what ideas our group had to develop and promote total communication across the school.

We are excited for all the fabulous work we are going to do to develop total communication in Chatelherault Primary School.

Please see below for the minutes of our first meeting.

Total Communication Pupil Group Minutes 31.8.22

Animal Ambassadors

August 31st 2022

Welcome to our Animal Ambassadors page!

We held our first meeting of the year today and everyone is really excited to be part of this group.

We talked about the different things we could do at home, at school and in the wider community to help animals. We had some great ideas, e.g. Making a bug hotel, growing plants to support the bees, not littering and reusing items to create artwork. It was lovely to see the children thinking about the smallest of our creatures, the insects, as these are usually forgotten in favour of the cuter and cuddlier ones. Well done, team! We will be exploring these and more ideas over the coming months…

Please find below the minutes of our first meeting:

Date: 31.8.22
Points from previous meeting:
This is our first meeting of the year!
Main discussion points from today:

Today we all introduced ourselves to other members of our group. We begin to
think about some things that we can do in our school to help animals, particularly
in our woods area. We came up with these ideas:

• Create bird feeders in the Winter to hang on the trees in the woods
• Bring speakers into the school to talk to everyone about animals
• Make bug hotels in the woods
• Create fact files about animals that live in the woods and hang these up in
the woods so that people can learn about them.

Focus Article:
Article 12 – you have the right to have your opinion listened to and taken seriously.

Action Points:
• Contact people to see if they can come to our school to teach us about
animals.
• Continue to think of other ways we can help animals before the next meeting.

Minute Taker: Emaan

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