School Council Minutes 6th November 2013

PARK GROVE SCHOOL COUNCIL

MEETING MINUTES 6th NOVEMBER 2013

 Chair: William and Bethan

Vice-chair: Travis

Treasurer: Ben

Secretary: Holly

Chief-bloggers: Toby, Olivia and Mani

Special Project Managers: Katie and Fletcher

 PRESENT

Ben Brannigan, Bethan Parkinson, Ellen Jones, Elliott Jones, Fletcher Pendry, Holly Allison, Jacob McCullough, Katarina Savkovic, Katie Clark, Mani Cobb, Manon Hollingworth, Miss Sawyer, Miss Tilbury, Mr Mastrelli, Olivia Bryan, Shamim Kennedy, Toby McKee and William Clark.

APOLOGIES

Rylie Ackroyd, Travis Bradford and Moya Coughlan.

READING OF AGENDA

William and Bethan read out the agenda.

BUSINESS

REGISTER OF ATENDEES

Holly made a note of those present.

CHRISTMAS FAIR

A number of points were mentioned:

* Children should decorate the jam jars at their home not at school.

* School Council members should remind the children in their class to bring in a jam jar with whatever they want inside.

* William had asked the P.T.A. if the design for the School Council popcorn and candy takeaway was acceptable.

* The governors had bought 61 candy canes for the stall.

* Toby confirmed that the popcorn machine works.

* Toby has written a letter to the children and parents of the school about the popcorn cones.

* Children could decorate the popcorn cones as an activity in their class.

* The School Council will fill the popcorn cones on the night of the Christmas Fair.

* The School Council will put a bag of candy at the side of the candy grabber so people who do not win a prize on the grabber can have a consolation sweet.

* The School Council could hopefully sell lots of the jam jars and that the Chief-bloggers should blog about it.

CHILDREN IN NEED

It was mentioned that it would be nice if children and/or parents could come to school dressed in spotty outfits and donate 50p, and that Ben would write a letter to parents accordingly.

POPPY APPEAL

It was mentioned that Fletcher and Holly have told all the classes about it and children should get a poppy from them.

It was said that every class will have two minutes silence on 11th of November.

SUGGESTION BOXES

Class 7 suggested that more books in the library would be good, and William has written a letter to Mrs Campbell about it.

Class 7 also suggested that more fish in the pond in the wildlife area would be good, and Fletcher will write a letter to Mr Stoner about it.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

Miss Sawyer asked the group what they enjoyed about being on the School Council. Here are the responses:

* Miss Sawyer likes all the enthusiastic ideas.

* Jacob likes the meetings.

* Olivia likes to see the School Council staff.

* Bethan likes to talk in the meetings.

* Holly likes talking to her parents about the meetings.

* Mani likes listening to everyone’s ideas.