School Council

Our School Council consists of 18 members: two children from each class in school.

During the Autumn Term, all children are invited to take part in our School Council elections. We hold these elections democratically using the polling station equipment from the real elections. Democracy is a Fundamental British Value.

Our class representatives attend School Council Meetings where areas for development and new projects are discussed.

Some projects our school council have been involved in since Autumn 2025 include:

• We worked with Mrs Smith to share what we know about Safeguarding and helped to create a child friendly Safeguarding Policy to share with all the children at our school.
• We asked our classes what they thought about the new lunch menu and shared their views with Mrs Slater, the catering supervisor.  We gave her some ideas to make dinners even more delicious.
• We thought about which charity we should support with our Nativity Play collections and voted to support Stories of Hope and Home because we were so inspired by our refugee visitors last term.
• We showed Mrs Smith how to make the playground safer by creating zones for different types of play.
• We asked our classes which Wellbeing Wednesday clubs they enjoyed the best and which new clubs they would like.
• We thought about how to make playtimes more fun with the money the PTA raised.  We chose new things for our playground such as musical instrument play panels, more bikes for two people and lots and lots of chalk and mud to last the whole year!
• We wanted to spread Christmas cheer to our community so we helped choose a winning Christmas tree design for the widow of Dixons in Northfield.
• We helped load up the gifts to send to Birmingham City Mission, for children who won’t get much at Christmas time.
• We helped B30 foodbank to deliver the Harvest collection.
• We asked our classes which Bible story best represented our school – they voted for the story of The Good Samaritan.
• We told Mrs Smith that our friends said that people drove to fast and didn’t park safely around the school.  We helped the PCSOs judge our road safety poster competition and chose new police officer bollards to make our roads safer.
• We told Mrs Smith that we needed a “hungry colour monster” in our classrooms and on the teachers’ lanyards.