School Council

Student Council Members
The School Council has been working hard this term. We have elected new class representatives and we have met to discuss our goals for this year.
The School Council voted on the best people for the different roles within the council. The roles are:
Chair – Callum and Luke
Vice Chair – Oliver and Bronwyn
Secretary – Ben
Publicity Officers – Clara, Cillian and Emily
Poster Team – Tom and Aoife
Ideas Box – Zara and Hugo
Registration and Alerting – Daniel, Jim and Iona
We talked about what makes a good school council representative and here’s what we came up with:
- A good listener
- Confident to share your ideas
- Helpful
- A good team player
- Reliable
- A good role model
- Innovative
- A good communicator
Our goals for this year/what we would like to achieve is to improve break and lunchtime in the school playground. We would like to buy some playground equipment, to make lunchtimes more fun. We would like to set up a reading/art area in the KS2 playground. We would also like to help make ICT more fun and help to keep the ICT room organised.
We will be hosting lots of fundraisers next term, so that we can buy this equipment. Find out about our events on our school council board or on the school website!
Miss Mc Keogh is our Student Council teacher.
Elections for Student Council and our new Eco- Council will be held in October each year.
About us - School Councillor roles
What does a school council do?
The school council meets – usually with a teacher present - to discuss and sort our problems these may include some lunches, behaviour or ideas for fundraising events. Members of the school council will be responsible for carrying out the ideas that have been agreed, such as planning fundraisers and writing newspaper articles.
What jobs are there?
Each year, ever class will normally elect two representatives to be members of the school council.
The council will then meet to elect officers such as:
- Chair
- Secretary
- Treasurer
What makes a good one?
A good school council is one that represents the views of all students and get things done.
Many schools have councils, but they are not all successful, these are some of the things that make a council effective:
- Regular meetings
- A council that is not to big
- Class/ form councils that meet regularly
- Good communication between representatives and their class
- Smaller groups (subcommittees) working on specific eves or issues
All Council activities are suspended until further notice
Work so far!
St Patrick's Primary School, Church View, Holywood BT18 9LN
Phone: 028 9042 4772