Welcome to our School Council
Our School Council here at Westlea Primary School is a group of pupils from Y2 – Y6, elected by their peers, to represent their views and help improve the school community.
Its principal role is to provide a “pupil voice,” ensuring that children have a say in decisions that affect them in line with Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Core Responsibilities include:
- Representing Peers: School council representatives gather ideas, suggestions, and concerns from their classmates to discuss in regular meetings.
- Communication: Members are responsible for reporting back to their classes about decisions made and updates from the council and they frequently speak in whole school assemblies.
- Influencing School Policy: They work with Mrs Davey in their monthly meetings to provide feedback on school rules, behaviour policies, and upcoming changes.
- Managing Projects: In the last year, our school council has led many initiatives, such as choosing new playground equipment, improving school meals, selling poppies, school disco tickets and supporting the Eco-group with the glue stick recycling scheme.
- Fundraising: They frequently plan and help to run events such as The big Read on World Book Day, the glow in the dark disco and non-uniform fund raising days which go towards collecting money for school improvements or chosen charities.