School Council

Our first RSA Pupil Parliament of the year. Today we held a debate and voted on ‘is it right the school holidays were shortened to 5 weeks with a 2 week October half term’? The representatives voted 46-11 in favour.

On November 5th, several school council members were fortunate to attend the first WE Day In Nottingham at the Royal Concert Hall. The day included hearing motivational speeches from Martin Luther King III, Mukadass Javaid, Isabelle Weal, Joe Dempsie and Emilio Estevez, to name just a few. The event promised to be informative, inspirational and thought provoking.

Our Pupil Parliament representatives gave an interesting assembly to children from reception up to Year 2. They discussed their own, recent experience of taking part in the Rushcliffe Schools Alliance Pupil Parliament and spoke about the election taking place later this week.

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Please support the primary school children of Rushcliffe who recently voted to petition the Government to value trees for our planet’s children and grandchildren.

The Rushcliffe Learning Alliance Pupil Parliament have democratically chosen this as their issue of the year which we would like to take to Number 10 Downing Street, but we need your support!

Please take 1 minute to click this link and sign the petition.

With thanks,

Rushcliffe Learning Alliance Pupil Parliament.

Liz Horridge (Teaching Assistant at James Peacock School), Pete Dudgeon (Teacher at West Bridgford Juniour School) and Dan Rhodes (Pupil Parliament lead) attended the 3 day UK Parliament Teachers Initiative in London in January.

Each member of School Council designed their own logo. Teachers and peers will vote on their favourite, the winner will be announced soon.

Coming Soon....

School council, Mustard Seed and Eco schools groups meeting to discuss Parliament, democracy and debating.

At our February meeting, we had visitors from the Woodland Trust and Greenwood community project  join us to answer our questions relating to our ongoing petition for planting trees locally and nationally.

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Our new representitives from each of the reception classes put themselves forward to join our School Council and were each voted in by their peers. Well done girls.

The children in School Council were saddened to hear of the damage caused to trains at the Heritage Centre in Ruddington. They made and send a card from all the staff and pupils.

Children from Reception up to Year 2 have recently taken part in a voting event organised to encourage cross party debating.

The children, aged 4 to 7 years, are each part of three groups within the School; the School Council, the Mustard Seed Ambassadors and Eco Schools.

They were brought together and encouraged to debate several subjects, including whether the School should fundraise for a new water harvester or for soap making ingredients for a community in Uganda this year.

Each child was given the opportunity to discuss different options and give their opinions, before each voted for their preference.

The event aimed to give the children an insight into democracy and inspire the next generation of voters and comes following the School’s recent link with UK Parliament and its role within the Rushcliffe Schools Alliance Pupil Parliament.

On Monday 20th May, our 2 Pupil Parliament representatives travelled to Westminster along with 33 other schools in the Rushcliffe area to experience Parliament first hand.

The pupils and their teachers visited the Parlimentary Education Center, The Victoria Tower Gardens and Parliament Square.