Our School Councils represent the views of all our pupils. They give children the opportunity to make their voices heard and feel part of the whole school community.

It is composed of representatives from all classes.

If you want to become a School Council member you have to present a manifesto to the rest of the class. This will tell the class why they should vote for you! After the voting is over there is one representative from each class, except year 6 where there are two representatives from each class.

The School Council 2018-19

Jake, Isabelle, Roman, Raima, Zachary, Max, Toshani, Jayleen, Gyan, Yusuf, Kiren, Yousuf and Zeena

School Council met the school cook and senior lunchtime supervisor

Miss Catton (school cook) and Mrs Rhodes (senior lunchtime supervisor) came to our school council meeting on 23rd March 2017.

Each class in school completed a whole class survey to find out what we all thought about our school lunches and our experiences in the hall at lunchtime.

Today we fed back the results to Miss Catton and Mrs Rhodes and we all discussed how we could improve lunches, which foods we most liked and disliked and how we could improve lunchtimes in the hall overall.

We look forward to quicker queue times, food menus in classrooms and more space to sit in both KS1 and KS2 halls. These are just a few things we can fix quickly.

Look out for more information coming about new menu choices and removal of food we really don't like.

Thank you Miss Catton and Mrs Rhodes for coming to visit us.

What does the School Council do?

The School Council meets regularly. Everyone in school is informed as the meeting minutes are read out. A proper agenda is written before each meeting by one of the School Council members.

What does it do when it meets?

The School Council discuss matters brought up by members of each class. They also put forward ideas which they feel will improve the school. They vote for ideas which they feel should be carried forward. Sometimes ideas may be turned down by the Head teacher, for example if the school couldn't afford it, or if there were too many non uniform days or bun sales!!!

LATEST SCHOOL COUNCIL NEWS

The school council have rewritten our child friendly anti-bullying policy. The council have met to discuss what needs to be included in the policy and how they want it presented. The children came up with some excellent ideas and had a good discussion around the wording of it and the best symbols to use.

Equality Council

2018 – 19

Members: (not in any particular order)

Isla, Mikail, Aditya, Noah, Sophia, Neha, Ruby, Gursimran, Khadijah, India & Adi.

Equality Council statement of principles

The Equality Council gathered ideas and suggestions from all KS2 classes and chose their favourite statements to form this Equality Council Mission Statement below:

At Wigton Moor:-

• Treat each other how you want to be treated

• We respect everyone

• Everyone is special in their own way

• We listen to everyone’s ideas.

• It doesn’t matter which religion or belief we should all be treated equally.

• Alone we are one piece, together we are a jigsaw; let’s make sure we don’t snap.

How are members chosen?

Members of the Equality Council volunteer, and if there are more than two volunteers there is a class vote. Members in Year 5 remain on the Council when they move into year 6 to act as role models to new members. Two further council members are voted on in Year 6. A Chair, vice chair and secretary are voted in each year within the council.

What is the purpose of the Equality Council?

The Equality Council helps to encourage everyone to appreciate our similarities and differences. Members will step in if there are any problems, with support from other members of the Council and staff.
The Council also organizes and take part in events to support anti-racism and to prevent possible ‘hate’ incidents against a range of groups such as those with disabilities, religion, heritage, homophobia or gender discrimination.

What events have the Equality Council been involved in?

In 2017/18 the Equality Council continues take a lead on inclusion across the school.

The council have initiated a project to ‘show’ Equality Tickets to anyone who needs reminding about the importance of our principles. Each class invented their own ticket with appropriate messages on and were introduced to the idea by members of the Equality Council doing a presentation within class. Further ideas are to take an assembly to promote equality.

The Equality Council led an assembly for Black History month and also presented it to pupils at Whitkirk Primary School after their Headteacher visited our school. The Equality Council often lead discussions and presentations when we have special days learning about different religions and cultures. The Equality Council wrote a letter to Kick it Out which resulted in a visit by Osei Sankofa to talk about equality. He led an assembly to KS2 and some workshops in Year 4 & 5.He was very impressed with our lovely pupils and fabulous school.

The Council consider any racist or prejudice incidents that have happened in school and discuss what they can do to help avoid these in future.

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The colour of the badge of the Equality Council is red ... linked to the "Show Racism The Red Card" campaign.

The Green Council members 2019-20

(not in any particular order)

Isabelle, Amelia, Florence, Noah, Tanush, Toshani, Max, Megan, Juliet, Lex and William

What is the aim of the Green Council?

The aim of Green Council is to try and make the school as environmentally friendly and as healthy as we can. There is a display in the main entrance to show who the Green Councillors are. This way, children know who they can go to if they would like something to be addressed in a Green Council meeting. We meet every month to discuss any ideas brought to us from classes and to continue with our existing projects. Green Council is supported by Mrs Lee and Mrs Forrest.

What does Green Council do?

Green council are responsible for checking that lights have been switched off in classrooms, projectors are not left on when not being used and that the correct bins are being used and paper is being recycled. We also learn about our local woodland with the Friends of Wigton Moor Woods, and carry out a litter pick to help protect our local wildlife. This year we have started to work towards the Woodland Trust Green Tree Schools Award.