Aiming High, Working Together
It was wonderful to welcome everyone to our first Health and Wellbeing pupil group meeting of the session.
Everyone introduced themselves and shared their fantastic ideas about how to promote good health and wellbeing in our school.
The group have already came up with some amazing suggestions, which can be seen in our meeting minutes below.
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
Our group is made up of pupils who are passionate about shaping how we learn and experience numeracy. We provide feedback, suggest improvements, and work to make maths more engaging for everyone. Together, we are helping to create a positive and supportive environment where every child can thrive in numeracy!
You can keep up to date with all our meetings using the minutes links below.
Numeracy Pupil Voice Group Minutes October 24
Numeracy Pupil Voice Group Minutes November 24
Numeracy Pupil Voice Group Minutes January 25
Meet our Maths Ambassadors for this year (2023).
Please click on the link below to access the minutes from our first meeting this year.
The Sports Ambassador Pupil Group had their first meeting. Everyone was present,
Roles of the Group
We discussed the role of the group. Some of the roles highlighted include;
The group also discussed what Extra Curricular activities they would like to see at Chatelherault Primary School. These included;
It was great to welcome the children to our first meeting of our Digital Learning Pupil Group. The children were fantastic at being able to discuss what technology helps their learning and how we can use it effectively.
The children identified a range of projects that we will be working on over this school session.
We met today and introduced oursleves.
Please see a minute from our first meeting below.
Well done to everyone at Chatelherault who worked so hard on our journey to the Gold Rights Respecting Schools award. A special thank you to our amazing Pupil Voice Group who have helped our school find ways to ensure children can learn about and enjoy their rights!
WE ARE A RIGHTS RESPECTING SCHOOL!
Pupil Council children met to discuss plans to develop our woodlands in our school as well as in our community at Meikle Burn.
Group: Pupil Council
Date: 30th March 2022
| Points from previous meeting:
· After meeting Chatelherault Rangers, we are going to look at developing out own woodlands within the school grounds. · We will still aim to organise litter pick and site visit to Meikle Burn site to contribute to our community. |
| Main discussion points from today:
· Mr Gilligan fed back main points from meeting with Mike (Chatelherault Park Ranger). · Due to amount of work involved we would need multiple visits to Meikle Burn site, we are going to begin focussing on our own woodlands on school grounds to develop within our immediate community. · We will look at our woods to see what issues we have and generate ideas on how to develop our woodlands. · These ideas will be discussed at next meeting and we will begin to look at costs. |
| Focus Article:
Article 29: A child or young person’s education should help their mind, body and talents be the best they can. It should also build their respect for other people and the world around them. |
| Action Points:
Children to go back to class and ask classmates for ideas on how to further develop our woodlands. |
Minute Taker: Mr Gilligan
This year, our school has participated in the 2021/22 OutRight Campaign. The focus of the campaign has been children and young People’s mental health. This was something we felt very strongly about participating in, particularly after the difficult lockdowns we had all experienced.
The children have enjoyed learning about the importance of their mental wellbeing, how it relates to their rights and what we can do to support mental wellbeing in school. The children have been empowered to take actions and we have created a whole school mental health declaration! This is now on display for everyone to see and be reminded of the things we are doing and can do to help each other.
