School Council – Monkwood Primary School

School Council

Monkwood School Council is made up of children from every class to ensure the voice of every pupil has a chance to be heard.

What does a school council do?

A school council does a number of things:

The school council meets every half term to discuss and sort out school issues. These may include things like ideas for fundraising events. There is a School Council suggestion box that all pupils are encouraged to use by posting in questions they want to ask the council or ideas they may have.
Members of the school council will be responsible for carrying out the ideas that have been agreed, such as planning an activity, writing an article, or meeting with Mrs Dannatt to share ideas.

What makes a good one?

A good school council is one that represents the views of all students as it is the children who are at the very heart of the school.

These are some things that make a council effective:

regular meetings
good communication between representatives and their class
smaller groups (subcommittees) working on specific events or issues (such as our Eco-Warrior team)

What is a school council?

A school council is a group of students who are elected by their class to represent the views of all pupils and to improve our school.

Each year, a mock election is held to allow the children a peek into how real-life politics works. Any pupil wanting to join the school council then has to write a manifesto. Each class will elect one student to be their representative on the school council. Our elected members can be spotted wearing purple hoodies.

Wickersley Partnership Trust Student Council

Our Trust representative is Phoebe Greene.

Wickersley Partnership Trust Student Council

Wickersley Partnership Trust recognises the importance of listening and responding to ‘student voice’ to help shape improvements to the school.

Each Trust school has a representative group of students (School Councillors), elected by their peers, who form the ‘School Council’. They play an active role in school – organising events, raising issues and representing the views of their peers with Senior Leaders in the school.

Each School Councillor runs an ‘election campaign’ annually and their classmates vote for their new class representatives – this is democracy in action!

Wickersley Partnership Trust believes School Councils develop its core values including cooperation, mutual respect and a commitment to diversity and equality.

Wickersley Partnership Trust has a ‘Trust Council’ which has elected representatives from each of the school-based Councils, likewise, they help shape improvements to the Trust.

The Trust Council meets once every half term at rotating venues across the Trust. During these meetings, the students discuss Trust priorities – what’s going well already, and what we could do better in our schools and School Councils.

Charity fundraising is a key aspect of the Trust Council too – the Representatives come up with joint ideas on how we – as a Trust – can ramp up our charitable efforts.

At the end of each meeting, the Trust Council sets an agenda for the School Councils and how they’re going to move forward with their fantastic new ideas.

All minutes from the meetings will be shared with the Student Body by Trust Council Representatives and on Wickersley Partnership Trust’s website.

The Junior and Senior Trust Councils will also meet once a year at a leadership summit.