School Council

A school council provides a meaningful way in which pupils can voice their opinions and have their views taken into account in decisions that impact upon them. Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) -Respect for views of the child.

At The Round House, the school council has always been an important part of our school.  It allows the pupils to have their say about different matters which affect our school, well-being and our learning. 

Every pupil has the right to express their ideas and to have a student voice. They help to makes decisions about school life and organise projects that support learning and development, such as organising charity events, theme days or representing the school at outside events.

We value the opinions of our pupils and our school council gives pupils a forum to share these opinions with our school council teacher representative, Headteacher and other members of staff.

Our School Council is made up of representatives from across the school.

Year 6 children have the roles of:

• Chair
• Treasurer
• Secretary  

Year 6 roles are selected by the teachers and senior leadership team and are part of the Year 6 roles and responsibilities.

In addition, there are class representatives from each class from Year 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. These children are elected democratically by the peers in their class. One of the additional roles of the treasurer and secretary is to represent the pupils of Pre-School and Reception. 

The School Council

• Chair: Nicholas
• Treasurer: Zach
• Secretary: Juliet

School Council Representatives: Anna, Livvie, Harry, Grace, Freya, Jude, Theodore, Amelia, Jack, Alec

Staff Facilitators: Mr Thomas and Mrs Bates

School Council Blog

December 2024 

Christmas Fair 

We helped run stalls at the Christmas Fair to help raise money for our outdoor provision. We also put together a letter to our local Tesco community group asking for donations to help our fair. 

November 2024 

Children in Need 

We helped raise an amazing £700 for Children in Need by organising the Pudsey Bear colouring competition. 

Poppy Appeal 

The school council were on the school gates helping to raise money for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. We raised an amazing £55 for the Poppy Appeal.

October 2024 

Food Bank Donations

Huge thank you for all the food bank donations. Two members of School Council helped to deliver these to the food bank this morning. They even gave us a tour and talked to us about what will happen to the food now we have donated it. We collected a total weight of £152.04kg, which equates to 3 days worth of food for 30 people or around 274 meals!
Amazing!

New House Names

We conducted our first school council vote to decide which house names we should change to from the original Hawks, Eagles, Falcons and Owls. The vote concluded that we are naming our houses after Gods and Goddesses. 

The rationale behind these new houses are that before the Round House was built, an Archaeological dig was conducted and they discovered a relic of Minerva (Roman Goddess of Wisdom). The four houses are now named after Gods and Goddess of Wisdom from other historical cultures. 

• Minerva 
• Sulis
• Athena
• Neith

We were also awarded our School Council Badges. 

September 2024

We had our first meeting today and looked at the future events this term. We also organised and started the first school vote for this academic year. 

July 2024

A huge thank you to everyone for supporting our Enterprise Fair last week. An incredible £626 was raised! School Council will be deciding how these funds can be best used around the school very soon.

• In the spirit of the General Election. Our School Council split into four different parties and came up with manifestos for spending funds in our school. The four parties were: 

  • Lunchtime Party - more equipment for wet play and lunchtimes

  • Courtyard Party - make more use of the courtyard area at lunchtimes

  • Book Party - adding more books to the school

  • Very Berry Party - planting berry trees around the school.

The winner was the Lunchtime Party who will be spending their money on some new equipment for lunchtimes and wet play.

December 2023 

• The School Council have helped organise a range of activities for the Christmas Fair. 

November 2023

• The School Council assisted in the selling of poppies for remembrance.
• School Council have organised a range of activities to raise money for Children in Need this year.
  They include a design a t shirt for Pudsey competition, wear bright/funny socks and completing 1000 'bearpees' as a class.