School Council - here they are! Our wonderful school council for 2024 - 2025!

Brightside Nursery Infant School Council is made up of 12 pupils from year 1 and year 2.  Two reception children also join in the spring term. In the autumn term, every pupil votes for who they would like to be a council member from each class. The votes are then counted and the School Council is formed. The School Council meet every two weeks with Mrs Batham to discuss current school issues. They then report issues and discussions back to their classes every two weeks in class council.

The School Council present the outcomes of their meetings to the KS1 pupils and Headteacher every two weeks in the Monday assembly.

2024/2025

In the autumn term Mrs Batham will visit each classroom in KS1 to discuss the school council roles. The children will vote for new members of school council. 

Autumn 1 2024/25

In our first meeting we discussed how they had been elected by their friends to represent them as pupil voice. The children received their special lanyard to wear and had their photos taken so everyone knows who they are! We talked about the fantastic work last years school council had done for us in school.

Our first job was to say a big thank you to some volunteers.  We have had some fantastic work done in the forestry school woodland area by VINCI. It looks amazing. We have also had a colourful friendship bench made and painted by our volunteer friends. School council had lots to say about the bench such as 'It looks bright and beautiful' and 'If you're sat there people will notice and come and ask you to play...I did that today and made someone happy!'

The first task for school council to take to class council is to find out a bit more about school dinners for our catering staff. The children are really excited to get started and can't wait for their first class council to begin!

Our second meeting for this half term involved discussing the feedback forms for school dinners. As a school council we discussed our personal thoughts on school dinners. One member said 'I have school dinners all the time. I love them!' Another child said that 'The cheese doesn't taste the same as the cheese my nan uses so I don't like meals with cheese on'. Our school cook was delighted to receive all of our feedback forms.

Mrs Batham discussed with school council about their next job in school which is......to recruit new librarians for the outdoor library! Look out for the application forms in class!

Our last meeting for this half term  was a busy one. We shortlisted our applicants for the outdoor librarian job. We made each application anonymous and discussed about 'fairness' and why we can't always choose ourselves or our best friends. It was a very difficult job as all the applications were amazing. We used cubes to mark our votes and counted up to check for the winners. The successful applicants will be bringing home a letter from school council to confirm their appointment.

In the last school council session for this half term, we also looked at ballot voting systems and each school council member chose with a cross the theme they wanted for the upcoming Children In Need day. Look out for further details nearer the time.

Autumn 2 2024/25 -

Our first meeting back was on Children In Need day. It was wonderful to see everyone taking part and joining in with the theme chosen by school council. We all had so much fun wearing our pyjamas and/or Pudsey merchandise. We then all had a dance at our Children In Need disco.

During our meeting on Children In Need day, we chose the winners of our school Kindness Cape competition. Look out for the winners! All of the entries were fabulous. The school council were then given a task to take back to class councils. Mrs Jenkins-Omar wanted to find out what choices of breakfast foods the children would like available on Friday morning family breakfast. I'm sure the class councils will think of some really good ideas for us.

Our meeting today was about voting for the film choice for the Christmas film night. Look out for more info on this! We also made a list of the ideas class councils had come up with for Friday family breakfast. There was some yummy suggestions! These ideas have been passed on to Mrs Jenkins-Omar to consider. Well done school council for all your good work.

Our final meeting for this term was an important one. We met to make a thank you card for the Sheffield Town Trust. The Trust have given us a huge grant towards a school project and Miss Frost, our deputy head, asked us to say thank you on behalf of all the children in the school. Mrs Batham and school council worked together to make a fabulous card to send through the post. We hope they like it! Thanks once again Sheffield Town Trust from us all at Brightside Nursery Infant School.

Spring 1 2024/25- Look for updates as the year progresses

The children in school council had an important job to try some new recipes that have been created by the Taylor Shaw Staff in the school kitchen.  They tasted Thai curry, onion bhaji burgers, biryani and chickpea curry. The biryani was very popular with lots of children saying it was tasty. Taylor Shaw will look at putting some of these items on our school menu. 

Spring 2 2024/25-

Today was our first meeting after the half term holiday. We had some decisions to make. This years Red Nose Day will be held on Friday 21st March 2025 and we will be celebrating 40 years of Red Nose charity work! The school council have therefore decided to have a PARTY CLOTHES dress up theme to celebrate this. Of course, the children will also be able to wear their red noses and red nose day T-shirts too if they choose. We will be requesting a small donation for this so please look out on further news from school for more details. The children will be deciding in their school councils next week what activities they wish to do on this day. How exciting!

Our next job this term was to decide on the picture for the whole school to use for our Take One Picture Week. Look out on Take One Picture Week to see what we chose! We are also going back to our class councils to find out whether our classmates would like to take part in an Easter Bonnet competition in school. Look out for more details depending on the results from class council!

The school council were given an important job as they were asked to judge six winners of the Science Week competition. They thought about who had tried hard when making their lighthouse, then voted for the ones they liked the best. They all had great reasons for their choices and it was very hard to pick! 

Summer 1 2024/25- 

Wow! We had a great job to do today on our first school council meeting for this term. We had the difficult job of choosing the winners of the Easter bonnet competition. Luckily we had Mrs Fox, one of our school governors, to help. Earlier on in the day the children had taken part in an Easter bonnet parade. They all looked fabulous. Later we judged the hats and awarded the prizes to the lucky winners. We had so much fun.

Summer 2 2024/25- Look for updates as the year progresses

Look at what school council got up to last academic year 2023-2024!

Summer 2 2023/24 - Today we had our first school council meeting for the term. We discussed the summer fayre and decided to get some ideas for the event from our class councils. We talked about our road safety characters outside the school - Billy and Belinda. A suggestion had been made by adults in school to change the names of the characters to reflect the different ethnicity of the pupils. The school council voted NOT to change the names as they felt the names suited the characters and that they were 'the children's names' and belonged to them.

To finish off our wonderful year as elected councillors, we received a special certificate to thank us for our efforts. We can't wait to see who gets voted in next time!