Nov 09
We will be holding school council elections in the very near future for the juniors. Please make sure all pupils design and make a school council poster stating why they want to be on the school council and what they would like to change about our school.
REMEMBER IT IS YOUR COUNCIL, SO HAVE A GO AT RUNNING FOR ELECTION, YOU MIGHT BE LUCKY!
Oct 09
We have all been working hard planning our new agenda for 2009 and 2010. We will be holding lots of exciting things for Children in Need and we also have lots of ideas for future initiatives to make our school a better place.
Mr Mathias visited our school and met with the council. He is a very important Chief Constable with the local police force of South Wales and wanted to share children's views of how well our police force are doing. He enjoyed his visit so much that he will be returning soon. We look forward to his next visit.
Sept 09
Welcome back after a long summer holiday. Our school council will be the same for a while to allow everyone to settle in to their new classes. New elections will be held before half term and we shall appoint 4 new councillors for each year group (juniors initially). Watch this space for details.
We shall be holding our first council meeting soon to discuss details of forthcoming events.
Thank you to our wonderful council who have achieved so much this year. We will be losing our yr6 members soon and will be holding new elections for the new year in the autumn term.
Our school council has been meeting with the new yr 2 pupils and our existing yr 6 pupils in order that the yr 6s share their many months of experience with the younger children. We discussed many issues and will meet again on a regular basis in order that the council can continue their magnificient work when the yr 6 are in the comprehensive school.
Week beginning June 1st - Welcome back after a lovely sunny break! Our council will be hard at work this week working closely with the Eco team to plan and run our Fair Trade activities. We shall be food tasting and have the chance to buy some Fair Trade food on Friday 5th June.
May 09 - The year 2 elections have been held and three excellent year 2 pupils have been elected. We are all looking forward to working with them in school council. Remember, the council YOURS so please let us know if there are any ideas to improve our school.
The School council, mediators and members of the Eco team all visited the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff in April. We all had an amazing day and took part in real voting in the conference chamber as well as usng the tiny lap tops that the real Assembly members use! We really enjoyed our visit and left the Assembly a better understanding of how a democracy works. This will help us in the future when we have the opportunity to use our voices and vote for real!
April 09 - Welcome back after a restful Easter break. Our school council will shortly be growing in numbers when the year 2 pupils join us. Their elections will be held soon and we will elect 4 pupils to join our very important council when we work hard to improve our school.
Remember if you want to join the council, make a poster saying why you want to join and put your name on the front with your picture
GOOD LUCK!
March 09
The School Council have held their first meeting with interested year 2 pupils. They listened to all the debate and discussion about the new designs for a school council badge and all thought it was fun. Remember that year 2 pupils are invited to join us after Easter. All you have to do is design a poster saying why you want to join the school council and include a picture of yourself as well as your full name.
Elections will be held during the first week back.
Thankyou for all your support this term and the School Council would like to wish you a very happy Easter.
March 09 Our wonderful School Council have been hard at work writing for resources to various companies. We are also updating the Parent's notice board in the playground and will keep everyone informed about what goes on in our school. We will very soon be electing new yr 2 members for our council and look forward to working with new pupils!
Welcome back after a much needed Christmas break. Our school council continues to go from strength to strength! They have been interviewed by a member of the WAG as part of the sharing good practice proccess of Schools Councils and were excellent with lots of ideas and information. All their contributions will be fed back to us in the near future. We have a very busy term ahead and are planning to visit the WAG, design a new Council badge and work closely with the Eco Team to finalise plans for the new Junior school playground. We look forward to having lots of your ideas for the future development of our school so if you have anything that can improve our school plese let the School Council know via the poly pockets or just tell the school council members. Thankyou!
November 17th
Thankyou for all your generosity during our Children in Need day celebrations. Our council did a magnificient job decorating the biscuits and everyone enjoyed them immensely. We are at present looking at the issue of 'Bullying in the Primary School' and will be writing a document with advice for children on how to combat bullies. We feel proud that this will form the basis for our anti bullying policy.
Remember the council will be organising our 'Children in Need' day on 14th November. Can pupils bring in 50p for dressing up or non uniform, 20p for biscuits and 30p for 'Bad Hair' .
November 3rd
Our school council now are in office and have already planned lots of exciting new initiatives for this term including designing a new adventure playground for the Junior department. We are so looking forward to having lots of fun climbing frames and ropes to play on and hope to put them under the lovely oak tree. If you have any ideas of what you would like please let the school council know.
20th October
All the junior elections have now been completed and we were amazed at the quality of entries received. All candidates presented their cases very clearly and four candidates were elected from each year group. Their names will be on display in the junior corridor very shortly on the council notice board. The next step is for our first meeting when we will elect our chairperson, vice chair, secretary and vice secretary.
Thankyou to all those who entered, your posters were excellent.
13th October
All the school posters handed in by the Juniors are superb! We are holding the council elections this week and will be electing four candidates from each year group. Good luck to all...........
The school council elections will be held very shortly. We are just waiting for all the wonderful posters to be handed in. Thankyou to everyone who has made an entry. They are all super, keep up the hard work.
Welcome back after a somewhat wet summer holiday. Our school grounds are looking green and lush at the moment and we have lots of cutting and planting still to do. This year we hope to have planters for all the classes to have in order to plant and grow our own fruit and veg! We will keep you updated with any news when it occurs so watch this space!
We will shortly be holding school council; elections for the new academic year and will be asking all prospective candidates to make a poster giving all their reasons for wanting to represent our wonderful school.The posters should be colourful with name and class clearly written. A photograph would also be very helpful for anyone who wishes to put a face to the name.So come on get your thinking caps on and let's get drawing!
We have been enjoying the wonderful weather and making good use of the school grounds to eat our lunch. We continue to develop this area so come and help us if you have any ideas, plants shrubs etc., Thanks.
We are working hard improving the school and would like any ideas that you may have. Please let the school know Thanks - The School Council
Welcome back to everyone! We are currently hard at work planning a themed lunch day for the school when we will be able to taste foods from a different country. We held a vote and the winning country was China. So watch this space for details.Our other projects include researching and purchasing new toys for the playground, purchasing new shades and seating for the yards and celebrating our Eco day in collaboration with the School Council. If you have any thing that you wish to bring to the council's attention then please put them into the poly pocket or tell a council member.
Waunarlwydd School Council wish everyone a very happy Easter. Take care and return on Tuesday 8th April safe and well.
March 08
Our school council years 5 and 6 had a very busy time recently preparing and interviewing 6 candidates for the new Deputy Headship of the school. They worked hard asking the right sort of questions and grading the answers on a scale of 1 to 10. Later they gave their scores to the interview panel for their judgement. We are sure the successful candidate will love working with us and we look forward to them starting.
We continue to work for the good of the school and would like anyone with any ideas for council to put them in the poly pocket on the council notice board.Thankyou.
February 08
Our school council are extremely busy this term preparing our exciting ECO day along with our ECO team. We have met with our school meals service to discuss the lunch time options and have decided to hold a number of tasting sessions with the theme 'Foods from other countries'
We will keep everyone informed in order that we can all experience some new tastes! We recently visited the Welsh Assembly buildings in Cardiff with the Eco Team. We met our Assembly Member and learnt how to vote in a truly democratic manner using pods.They were great fun. Next we looked around the new building and heard about how it was designed and built for sustainability. We did not know that every room has a natural source of light! We had a fantastic day and learnt a lot about how decisions are made for the people of Wales.
Welcome Back!
We welcome the new year 3 children onto the school council and know that they will make a very valuable contribution to the running of our school. Regular meetings will be arranged very soon and we are inviting pupils to give their ideas and thoughts about how we can make Waunarlwydd Primary an even BETTER school. If you have any ideas then please put them in the Council poly pocket or box in the hall. Thankyou.
2006/2007
The school council recently has a kind donation of new plants and shrubs from Mrs Ball. We planted them all in our school grounds and they really help improve the areas around the school. We also met with Mrs Latimer regarding our new whole school initiative- 'Healthy Schools'. We will be holding some exciting events in this area so watch this space for details.
Our school council has grown in strength this term with the introduction of 4 new members from year 2. We look forward to working with the whole council for the remainder of this term and have some super ititiatives underway including the grand opening of our school grounds project.
Our School Council have been busy after a lovely restful Easter break. We have purchased a lot of new toys with the proceeds from our fruit sales and these include large Connect 4 games which the mediators have kindly offered to move in and out of the yards at playtime. Well done to the Council.
We were lucky enough to have been presented with an amazing fort and windmill made by a gentleman in Ty Waunarlwydd. We learnt a lot about castles and how the keep was the last stronghold for the people inside. They were made out of matchsticks and scraps of materials. We will enjoy drawing and finding out more facts about castle life in the future.
Welcome back to everyone in Waunarlwydd Primary School. After a very restful break we would like to welcome all pupils, parents and helpers back to school. We will be very busy this term working with the Eco Team in achieving our Green Flag status. We will have to conduct surveys and produce many new ideas to help recycle, reuse and reduce. If anyone has ideas which may be of use to us please contact the school. BBC 'newround' visit!!
The BBC's 'Newsround' team visited us last week to film a feature about our school council. The work of our school council and its success in providing a voice for all our pupils, is becoming well established and we are beoming used to a number of different schools and organisations visiting us to find out more.
The feature was a huge success and ran on Thursday's edition of the programme. You can view it again by accessing 'Newsround's' website.
Everyone involved in the discussions and filming had a great time and we even managed to teach Adam the presenter some welsh phrases at lunchtime! We have offered to present more council developments as they occur so watch this space!
The ECO committee and School Council visited the Welsh Assembly Government in Cardiff to see the new building and learn all about the role of the Welsh Assembly members. We held our own mini elections and has a go at using pods to vote with. Next we were shown all around the new building and learnt lots of interesting facts and figures about how the building was designed. We found out that every room inside has access to the daylight which reduces the need for artificial light, and that under the building are huge metal pillars which absorb and disperse heat from geothermals. This means that radiators are hardly ever needed to heat the building. We had the most amazing time and we all asked really difficult questions. We then used the knowledge gained when we recently held our very own elections to appoint new council members.
National School Council Website Launch
Jayne Davidson, along with an invited party of representatives of a range of organisations, visited the school on Thursday, October 11th in order to officially launch the School Council Website. Our own School Councilmade its own presentation, highlighting some of the successes it has shared in over the past few years.The visitors had the opportunity to visit classrooms in order to witness at first hand, pupils actually using the website. It was as uperb visit and we are especially proud of the way in which even the youngest members of the council conducted themselves. Our esteemed visitors were so impressed with the comments of the children that we have been asked to help develop and improve the website in conjuction with the Welsh Assembly.
WELL DONE TO EVERYONE!