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Health and Wellbeing Group Minutes 29.10.24

Health and Well Group minutes 

26.11.24

Today’s meeting for the Health and Wellbeing Pupil Voice group. Below are the minutes from our meeting, keep your eyes open for updates as we make our wee school better for all.

Attendees: See Register

Points from previous meeting:

  • Fruity Friday
  • Friendship day TBC

Main discussion points from today:

  1. Welcome to the Health Wellbeing group – Chat time
  2. Children Feedback – Happy about variety of clubs and Library Book club – would like the cheer leading club.
  3. Friendship day and date  children to meet with SMT -TBC -April / May 2025
  4. Create posters to promote friendship, kindness and equality.
  5. Fitness and mental health – Daily mile classes record miles/ distance
  6. Children enjoying the rotation of play areas outside
  7. Out of school achievements are being celebrated # see the whole person

Focus Article:

Article 13 –Everyone has the human right to express themselves, and Article 13 of the UNCRC makes it clear that this includes children and young people. Part of this right of freedom of expression involves being able to find out information for yourself— so you’re able to share it in the way you want.

Action Points:

  • Fruity Friday launch January 2025
  • Posters to be distributed
  • Daily mile reminder
  • Sponsored sport event suggested

 

29.10.24

Today’s meeting for the Health and Wellbeing Pupil Voice group. Below are the minutes from our meeting, keep your eyes open for updates as we make our wee school better for all.

Attendees: See Register

Points from previous meeting: Happy hut, In the playground how do you feel?

Main discussion points from today:

  1. Welcome to the Health Wellbeing group – Chat time
  2. Playground toys, areas for help/ adults in playground  – the children feel happy safe and secure.
  3. Afterschool clubs and variety of them – hockey, football, dance, athletics, gardening, choir and multi-sports. Happy with the variety but would like archery, book club and cheer leading clubs also.
  4. Guest coaches- children would like players of the games to come in and to help develop their  skills.
  5. Friendship day and date TBC – Day for children to develop social, friendship and communication and plays skills.
  6. Attachment awareness for kids and Happy hut – children know who and where to go for support and help.
  7. Healthy food awareness – Fun fruit FRIDAY… Can we do more to keep ourselves healthy and happy.

Focus Article:

Article 12 – We have the right to an opinion.

Action Points:

  • Date of Friendship day TBC
  • Library club/ Cheer leading group / Archery group possibilities for future clubs
  • Fruit Friday – TBC
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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

 

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Total Communication Pupil Group Minutes 31.8.22

Total Communication Group

November Minutes

Points from previous meeting:

·         Slot in Together Time confirmed with Mr Oneil for sign of the month and for Christmas signs for December
Main discussion points from today:

·         List of volunteers to do the sign of the month at assembly

·         Learned how to sign “how are you?”, “happy” and “sad”

·         Display materials finished for the display in the dinner hall.
Focus Article: Article 13

The child shall have the right to freedom of expression: this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice.
Action Points:

·         Pupil Group to join in with the songs at assembly

·         Volunteers to share the sign of the month at assembly

·         Mrs Benson to put up display in Dinner Hall

October Minutes

Points from previous meeting:

·         Recapped last minutes

·         Discussion with Mr O’Neil Recapped
Main discussion points from today:

·         Sign of the month at assembly

·         Group to do signing along with the songs at assembly

·         List of volunteers for recordings for visuals/signs around the school and the website

·         Group want to do seasonal vocabulary at assemblies

·         Group decorated lettering for the display board
Focus Article: Article 13

The child shall have the right to freedom of expression: this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice.
Action Points:

·         Group to finish the display letters and return

·         Mrs Benson will collect group in the next few weeks to do the recordings for the display

September Minutes

Points from previous meeting:

·         Recapped previous meeting

·         Handed out lanyards – discussed visuals and what they would be used for
Main discussion points from today:

·         Learned Makaton for “How are you?” and “happy” and “sad”

·         Makaton sign of the month at assembly – took a list of volunteers

·         Discussed possible signs to teach – generated a list

·         Discussed making videos for the school website – lots of volunteers for this too

·         Discussed creating a display board for signs for everyone to see and reference – pupils thought this was a good idea

·         Group ideas

o   Stories to share at assembly/on website

o   Songs

o   Games
Focus Article: Article 13

The child shall have the right to freedom of expression: this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice.
Action Points:

·         Speak to Mr O’Neil about introducing sign of the month at assembly

·         Mrs Benson and Mrs McQueen to create display board

August Minutes

Points from previous meeting:

·         N/A
Main discussion points from today:

·         What is total communication?

·         Lanyards – group decided it would be useful for each member to have a lanyard – we picked what symbols would be useful

·         We discussed using whiteboards for children to be able to draw their needs and wants

·         We discussed using sound buttons on class displays so everyone can access the information on these

·         We talked about Makaton at assemblies and introducing a school Makaton sign of the week
Focus Article: Article 13

The child shall have the right to freedom of expression: this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice.
Action Points:

·         Mrs McQueen and Mrs Benson to create lanyards for group members with the chosen visuals
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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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Forest School

Forest School

Session 2024/2025

Please remember to bring a change of old clothes and shoes for Forest School and plenty of layers on cold days.

Term 1 

(August to December)

Monday – Room 1 and Room 5 (with Mrs Lochhead)

Tuesday – Room 7 and Room 11 (with Mrs Lochhead)

Wednesday – Room 4 (with Mrs Benson) and Room 12 (with Mrs Thomson)

Thursday – Room 6 (with Mrs Lochhead) Room 10 and Room 14 (with Mrs McCreadie)

Friday – Room 3 and Room 8 (with Mrs McCreadie)

 

 

Term 2

(January to March)

Monday –

Tuesday –

 

Term 3

(April to June)

Monday –

Tuesday –

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We are a GOLD Rights Respecting School!

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!

 

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