School Council

This term the School Council have met three times to discuss and make decisions on projects to continually improve the school. Not only that, but we have also collected a questionnaire based on equality and diversity as well as written letters to local sports clubs, asking for donations to our wonderful, new playground.

All of the School Council Representatives have contributed, debated and voted on behalf of their peers as well as explained the questionnaire to their classes and brought up new ideas to include everyone at school.

Next term, we will be focusing on how we can improve the toilet facilities around the school.

This half term the school council has been meeting to talk about ideas and suggestions and to think about what we would like to focus on this year. We also met with the old school council for a handover.

We have agreed to make a suggestion box which we will be putting out at the entrance of the school in soft start to encourage other school children to give us suggestions and ideas. We would also like to introduce a class kindness chart which the school councillor could monitor.

Congratulations to our new Alban City School Councillors for the year 2024 / 2025 who were announced in assembly today! We are already looking forward to our first meeting.

The school council were very lucky to recently visit Westminster on a special school trip.

We started the trip with a tour of the House of Commons and the House of Lords and even got to sit on the viewing platform and witness a live debate!

After the tour we were then treated to a debating workshop where the children learnt about how the different political parties work and they role played debating a new bill in the house from two opposing sides.

Daisy Cooper our local MP then came to meet with the school council and answer questions about St Albans and more importantly the tax on sweets!

Today the school council were very lucky to meet the Mayor of St Albans, we prepared questions to ask the Mayor in advance before having a detailed conversation with him about his role in the city. The school council once again were a credit to the school.

As part of the school councils interest in helping the local community we decided to head down to the local nursing home ‘Verulam House’ where we chatted to the residents, played games and even got to meet their parrot and hatching chicks. The school council were very friendly and kind and were great ambassadors for the school.

When the school council met recently we had a good think about what we would like to spend our time doing going forward, two main themes that were most prominent were…

1. We would like to spend more time in our local community
2. We would like to visit a council / parliament setting

As a result we decided we would like to visit a nuring home in St Albans to offer some care, support and hopefully comfort. We are also sending some emails and hopefully will be able to go on a school council trip soon!

This school council we talked about changes we have made so far and what we would like to see going forward. Each school councillor made a list of things we have actioned to pass back to our classmates, these included:

• Bringing back the trays in the dining room.
• School survey on school meals as we had some classroom suggestions.
• More local school trips.
• We will be heading to the field in the warmer weather again.
• 30 minutes golden time a week consistently and five a day.
• Possibility to have Lani visit the classrooms more often and for a portable water container.

Congratulations to all the new school councillors who will be representing their class this academic school year.

We have been working hard already speaking with our classes and coming up with new ideas and improvements to daily school life at Alban City School.

If you have any suggestions or ideas please don’t hesitate to speak to your school councillor – they can be easily identified by their school council badge.

We look forward to meeting in October to continue working on ideas!