School Council
School Council Mission Statement 2024-2025
Here at Brighton Avenue Primary School, our children have their say about school matters. This has been made possible by the formation of our School Council. The Councillors have been elected by the pupils themselves and has an important role to play in the development and improvement of the school for all pupils. The School Council meet twice every half term to discuss any matters or issues of interest to the children within the school environment, community and things affecting the world around them, e.g. Red Nose Day, Children in Need and the latest news events. As a School Council, we are the voice for all pupils in the school. Our links with staff, parents, pupils, governors and our local community enable us to participate in decisions about teaching, learning, fundraising and the success of our school. Our active School Council ensures all pupils voices are heard in the running of our school. It works as follows: each class elects two members to the Council each year. The councillors will bring their classroom suggestion box to meetings to hear what their peers have to say or request they have made. At the meetings, we will discuss these in detail and feedback any information to Mrs Allan and individual classes. When there are upcoming national or local events, we meet and suggest different ways we can help raise money or awareness to show our support.
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What is the school council?
The school council is a group of children who attend meetings twice each term and discuss ideas and suggestions on how to make the school better. They are good role models for the children at Brighton Avenue Primary School. We have class representatives from Key Stage 1, Lower Key Stage 2 and Upper Key Stage 2.
What we do
Class representatives listen to their classes and write their ideas down to discuss at the meetings.
They are responsible for bringing all class suggestion boxes to school council meetings to share and discuss suggestions put forward by children.
Why is the school council important?
School Council meetings give our children a voice that is listened to.
School council contributes to improving the school and helps headteacher Mrs Allan by coming up with lots of great ideas.
School council help make decisions about how the school is run and take on projects that support the children's learning and development such as fundraising or representing the school at outside events.
School Council Events 2024 - 2025
Comic Relief 2025
Celebrating 40 years - 'Going big, giving big and feeling good together! This years theme is 'Do something funny for money!'
On Friday, March 21st, 2025 we will be joining in with the Comic Relief 2025 celebrations. It will be a fun day where staff and children can participate and raise money to help those in need in the UK and around the world. This year, the whole school will be taking part in a range of activities to show our support for this worthwhile charity. We are kindly asking for the children to come into school in non-uniform with a voluntary donation of £1 to help generate our school donation.
Raising Money! (Friday 13th December 2024)
Today, our whole school came together to help our School Council members raise much needed school funds. The School Council members came up with the idea to host a Christmas movie afternoon and in return, the children would receive a choice of drinks and biscuits.
We would also like to share out gratitude to MSF for their very kind donation of cordial and biscuits for this event. We appreciate all of the support you are giving us!
Take a look at what we got up to!
Working with Danielle from MSF in the Mindful garden 22.11.24
Today, we were visited by Danielle from MSF (Make Safety First) - a company who is helping us to develop different areas within our amazing school and working with the Eco Warriors. This morning, we put on our winter woolies to start pulling out the summer vegetation to replace it with winter vegetables. We planted carrots, onions, garlic and celery!
Take a look!
School Council Children In Need Whole School Assembly 6th November 2024
Children In Need 2024!
Children In Need 2024.
BBC Children in Need has been helping children and young people in every corner of the UK be the best they can be for more than half a century. Children across the UK are facing greater challenges than ever, with mental health conditions such as anxiety & depression rising, high levels of poverty leading to inequality & lack of opportunity. Many children are simply carrying a load that’s too heavy to manage alone, so this year, CIN are asking us to help make life lighter for children.
Our School council held an assembly to inform the whole school that they can come in to school wearing non-uniform for a £1 donation. For the donation, the children will receive a biscuit and a drink of juice. Each class will have a range of activities they can access to play, create and draw within the day.
Make Life Lighter- stories - BBC Children in Need
School Council Meeting 16.10.25
During our meeting today, the School Council have written a letter to the Education Secretary Rt Hon Brigette Phillipson to visit our outstanding school. We hope she replies and comes to visit us for a look around our school and have a cup of tea and a biscuit!
Macmillan Coffee Morning Friday 27th September 2024
This year, to show our support for Macmillan Cancer Research, School Council will be hosting a coffee morning in our Community Room from 8:35 - 10:00. Please feel free to join us and help our school raise much needed funds for Macmillan, a charity close to our hearts.
https://youtu.be/3e1ZZvBVh08
School Council 2024 - 2025
International Day of Democracy September 2024 - Voting for School Council class representatives.
To involve the children in the IDoD, the children are taking part in applying for School Council! The interested applicants have to create a manifesto about what will make them the best person for this very important role. These children have presented their thoughts and opinions to their class peers. All children have take part in a voting activity to elect their chosen class representatives! Here they are...
July 2024 - End of year assembly. Wow just look at what we have been up to this year! Thank you so much to all of our brilliant school council children this year, you have been fab.
Mindful Garden Vegetables - Education Centre Trip
On Thursday 25th April, the School Council, Mrs Kevan and Gemma visited the Education Centre, at the Waste and Recycling Centre, to spend the afternoon with the local Recycling Centre Coordinator, Laura.
In the Education Centre, we reviewed the impact of the ideal ‘zero’ food miles and decided how we could prepare or cook different fruit (blueberries and strawberries) and vegetables (potatoes, onions, carrots, garlic and herbs: mint, thyme, basil, sage), that have been grown in Brighton Avenue Primary School’s Mindful Garden or at the Education Centre’s Garden. The children were excited to make smoothies and soup using the fruit, vegetables and herbs we had grown and other ingredients, for example, vegan stock cubes.
The children were amazing when discussing what steps were needed to be taken to get, for example, our grown potatoes into a soup; carefully, they followed the step-by-step instructions to prepare, make and cook both a delicious soup and smoothie! All the adults were so proud of the School Council.
We’re excited to see what will next be grown in our Mindful Garden!
Mrs Kevan and Gemma.
March 2024 - We met as a group to look at what we had grown in the Mindful Garden this year and thought about what we could cook with it. Together, we put together the presentation below and presented it in assembly! In April we plan to visit Wrekenton Recycling Centre to make some delicious recipes that has all been grown at school. Well done councillors for all of your hard work.
What is the school council?
The school council is a group of children who attend meetings twice each term and discuss ideas and suggestions on how to make the school better. They are good role models for the children at Brighton Avenue Primary.
We have class representatives from Key Stage 1, Lower Key Stage 2 and Upper Key Stage 2.
What we do
Class representatives listen to their classes and write their ideas down to discuss at the meetings.
They are responsible for bringing all class suggestion boxes to school council meetings to share and discuss suggestions put forward by children.
Why is the school council important?
School Council meetings give our children a voice that is listened to.
School council contributes to improving the school and helps headteacher Mrs Allan by coming up with lots of great ideas.
School council help make decisions about how the school is run and take on projects that support the children's learning and development such as fundraising or representing the school at outside events.
Tuesday 14th March 2023 - Connecting Schools To Nature Project.
Our School Council and Eco Warriors were proud to be selected to host a stall to showcase some of the fantastic green transformation work we are doing here at Brighton Avenue Primary School. The purpose of the Hancock Museum event is to give out prizes and awards to schools, including framed certificates for participation. Volunteers and staff from the project, hosted this private event along with one of our school govenors, representatives from environmental organisations, universities, funding bodies, the council, local MP and members from the press at this amazing event.
Katie from the British Ecological Society stated 'It was so lovely to see all of the photos and everything the pupils had been up to; I especially loved the '5 ways to wellbeing' work they had been doing. So amazing and inspiring to see the pupils and staff!'
