School Council Meeting (SCM)

School Council Meeting (SCM)

14th October 2013

Present:

Mr JarrettHeadteacher

Year 3
Sienna Brancato (SB) / Year 4
Rebecca Ganachaud (RG)
Felix Thum (FT)
Lousia Thum (LT)
Carl Scandelius (CS) / Year 5
Matthew Copeman (MC)
Alexander Lawson (AL)
Emily Smith (ES)
Amelia Carpenter (AC)
Alisha Awan (AA) / Year 6
Isobel Potter(IP) Joint Chair
Isabella Swain (SS)Joint Chair
Vianne Alhayderi (VA) Vice Chair
Dylan Puri (DP)

Apologies: Folkert Bowler (Secretary)

Max Dorney

Absent:Ed Fisher

The minutes of the previous meeting were passed.

• Sports Ambassadors

Ms Hodge has asked the School Council to discuss Sports Ambassadors. RJ explained that the school have applied for “Kitemark” which is a sports award run by Sainsbury’s. We have achieved the Bronze standard already but one of the criteria for Gold is to have Sports Committee and Ms Hodge would like to set this up. RJ asked if any of the school council reps would like to be involved. IS, IP FB, and LT will be members along with Olivia Phelps.

Action: Arrange a meeting of all involved and discuss Inter House Matches.

• Design a Sports Kit

Discussion took place as to which sports need new kits. It was decided these should be:

Football/ Hockey

Netball

Basketball

Athletics

Action: IP and IS will make a template to hand out at the next School Council meeting and one of the agenda points will be to use this template to design a new kit. The designs will then be voted on.

• School Expansion

RJ updated the School Council on what had happened at the Planning Control Panel meeting. At this meeting the Panel, who are part of the Local Authority, had to decide whether to grant planning permission for the new school or not. It was a very long meeting which took 4 hours, lots of staff and parents attended. The Panel decided to delay (defer) the decision until further investigations had been carried out into traffic, environmental issues and an alternative site. The next meeting is due to be on 3rd December and hopefully a decision will be reached then.

Class Feedback

Year 3

Last Year’s book not handed over yet. Action: IP/IS to make sure each class has a school council book and if not they will provide one.

Year 4

Their class council meeting came up with the following ideas:

Design your own tie – the school already has 3 different ties, no more needed. IS commented that House Captains wanted their own ties, RJ said no as they have achievement ties.

Grow your own plant competition.

Swimming Pool in new school – discussed previously, too expensive to run, limited use.

Archery Club – need a specialist for this. It is probably an activity best done outside of school.

Pottery Club – speak to Mrs Powers about this. We did used to have a kiln but it broke and was condemned.

Crazy Golf – this is another activity for outside school/holiday time

Year 5

Year 5 had a school council meeting but there were no suggestions just lots of questions about the school expansion.

There were also complaints about the school dinners. These need to be passed on to the kitchen staff so that they know. We do have a trainee cook at the moment, Sandy should be back soon.

Year 6

They had discussed the changes to Kids Concert. Year 6 felt not as many would take part if it was going to be put on YouTube, most didn’t mind it being put on the school website. Some children can’t be filmed and YouTube can’t be accessed at school anyway.

AOB:

Cooking Competition - IP said that Hana Jolly in Year 6 is interested and happy to organise it. RJ said they need to come up with a plan and discuss it with him. A two part competition was suggested, the first part would be to design a recipe, the best would be chosen and then a selection of children could make the recipe. This needs investigating further.

Action : DP, AA, AC, MC and Hana Jolly to meet and come up with a plan.

Cookery Club – need a volunteer to run it. This could be a parent.

Information about the British Heart Foundation fundraising event “Jump for Heart” had been passed to the School Council. It was discussed but we are already supporting, Children in Need, Samaritans Purse, Sport Relief and a charity suggested by Lottie Ody in Year 4. It was agreed that this is probably enough.

Will the school be getting IPads. RJ said that we will be investing in some form of tablet but not the IPad and not for everyone to start with.

Dates for future meetings:

18th November

16th December

Agenda for 18th October to include:

Design a sports kit