School Council

At New York Primary School, pupils have a voice. The views of all our children are important and our annual, democratically elected School Council gives them the opportunity to have their voices heard and make a positive impact on the learning and experiences at our school.  

The process begins with councillor nominations where pupils are proposed by their peers or self nominate. Each year on Election Day those prospective councillors prepare and deliver a short speech to their class peers, outlining their aims and why they would make an excellent school council member. Each New Yorker exercises their democratic choice by completing a voting slip to select their school councillor. 

Our school council meets regularly throughout each term to discuss ideas and suggestions that have been brought to councillors or members of staff by other pupils in school.

This year during each book look, the School Council will hold a cake sale. Due to the kind donations of staff, students and parents we managed to raise £190 at our Autumn sale. We are excited to see if we can match this at the next sale. We have discussed using this money to go towards more stationary and painting a track in our yard to show where we should take part in the daily mile.

In future meetings we will also discuss which OPAL equipment we would like to see in our yard, more opportunities to take part in the daily mile and arranging for each class to tidy a different area of school.

Each School Council meeting is minuted and school councillors report back to their peers in class to raise whole school awareness of the discussions and take feedback and suggestions.