Thurlstone Primary School Council Vision statement
The following is a statement written by Hope Doherty (past pupil) and approved by School Council reps and the Head Teacher.
We hope to achieve a safe learning environment and provide an understanding help line for problems and worries in the school community. To contribute to this aim, we give full attention and support towards any pupils who have concerns of any kind.
At our fortnightly meeting, School Council bring up inportant issues such as supporting charities by holding fundraising events.
We constantly set new targets for ourselves and work hard to achieve them.
We ensure also that all children in school have their voice heard by holding regular class council meetings and re-elect School Council members twice a year.
Who are we and how do we work?
We're a group of elected children who represent the whole pupil voice.
We meet regularly to discuss issues which are relevant to our school and the opinions and views of all pupils.
There are two representitives per year group - one boy and one girl.
We have a teacher representative who helps to chair the meetings.
When necessary we keep detailed minutes of each meeting and liase
with the headteacher and other adults in the school community.
All this helps us to develop skills which will enable us to be effective citizens.
Fundraiser for Cancer Research
The school council have organised a bun sale and non-uniform day! Just bring some buns in to sell (only 20p per bun!) and for only £1 you can wear your snazziest clothes! ALL MONEY RAISED WILL GO TO CANCER RESEARCH WHICH I'M SURE YOU'LL ALL AGREE IS A GREAT CAUSE!
CHILDREN IN NEED
The school council organised a fundraising day which was a great success. Children were allowed to come to school in their own clothes for a small fee. Children were also asked to bring 'small change' to place on our large Pudsey Bear drawing. Groups of children also organised their own fundraising activities and altogether well over £150 was raised!
GREAT STUFF!
What have we done so far?
We have done a great deal in the small amount of time we've been active!
The first thing we did was to put in a bid for some much needed fun playground toys.
Mrs Webb gave us the go-ahead and we selected and ordered a range of toys to suit all ages. This went down really well with the rest of the school and we work hard to keep the toys in good condition and used responsibily.
We have also set up Thurlstone's first ever Tuck-shop! A healthy, non- profit making one too! We met with the school meals service to arrange the ordering of stock, and discuss the running of the business. We hadn't realised so much work goes into a Tuck-shop, but it's worth it and good fun.
We held a fundraising event in February in support of Dogs Trust. We raised over £70 and have used it to sponser Charlie!
Doctors and Nurse Day.
We raised £165! Not bad for a small school!
The money was taken directly to Barnsley Special Care Baby Unit and they are going to spend the money on breast pumps. The staff were very pleased and grateful for the money and have promised to make sure parents and visitors on the ward know what we've done!
PLAYGROUND PARTNERSHIPS
As I'm sure you remember the hard work that went in to our bid - well it was all worth it because we won £5000!
So the playground will soon be transformed into a childs dream play area!!
We're all really proud of our achievement - we even made it, as a main story, on to the front page of the Barnsley Cronicle!
Science Quiz
WE RAISED £368.
Not bad eh!?
We used the money to help purchase the Buddy stop which you can read about on the news page by clicking here. We have also got some fab new picnic benches arriving soon!
Thanks for all your donations and for supporting the quiz!!
