Croeso i School Council 2024-2025

Welcome to Our School Council – Where Every Voice Matters!

At Llanrhidian Primary School, we believe that every pupil has the right to be heard. Our School Council is a place where ideas grow, voices are valued, and positive change begins. Through Pupil Voice, we encourage all children to share their thoughts, opinions, and suggestions about school life – from learning and play to wellbeing and the environment.

By working together, we aim to make our school the best it can be – a place where everyone feels safe, respected, and inspired.

This year, our main focus is working alongside staff and the local authority to achieve the School of Sanctuary Award.

This important initiative is all about making sure our school is a safe, welcoming, and inclusive place for everyone—no matter their background, culture, or story. Through pupil voice, we’ll explore what sanctuary means, celebrate diversity, and help create a school environment where everyone feels they truly belong.

 

Meeting 1 - Autumn Term.

We met to plan for the year ahead and discuss the goals we’d like to achieve. 

 

Meeting 2 - Autumn Term.

We were given the exciting challenge of working with Pod Pry Cop to design characters for: Ready, Respectful, and Safe. To keep everyone informed, we emailed staff to explain what we’ve done so far and what we hope to achieve through this project.

Meeting 3 - SpringTerm.

Today the School Council met to talk about our visit to Plasmarl Primary and our work for the School of Sanctuary award.

1. Questions for Plasmarl Primary
We worked together to think of questions we want to ask when we go to Plasmarl Primary. We want to find out how they make sure everyone feels safe, welcome and included.

2. Pod Questionnaire
We designed a questionnaire for our Pods. This will help us check if our school is doing the things we need to do to earn the School of Sanctuary award. Everyone helped to think of good questions.

3. Next Meeting Agenda
In our next meeting, we will be announcing our Easter competition. The theme will be our school rules: Ready, Respectful and Safe.

Croeso i School Council 2024-2025

Our Targets:

1. Develop a local area curriculum around the marsh

2. Review 'Cool Policies'

3. Create 'STOP' signs for gates near busy roads

4. Create suggestion boxes for each pod to share their views with School Council

5. Design 'Red Zone Rules' to support pupils

Meetings Summer Term:

Summer 1:

- Pupils to carry out audit on outdoor learning resources by talking to Pod staff

- Pupils to carry out pupil survey on how to spend Pod funds - what outdoors equipment would they like?

Meetings Autumn Term 

Agenda for next meeting:

1. Discuss opportunities to work with 'Love Trails' festival to support our local area curriculum

3. Discuss 'Cool Policies'

Autumn 5:

Suggestion box given to Pod Pry Cop. 

Next Meeting:

1. Share suggestion box with Pysgodyn and Pengwin. 

2. Discuss Love Trials

Autumn 4:

School council read to cool bullying and made changes e.g., 'Tell, Tell, Tell' changed to 'Ask for Help'. Mrs Archard to share with staff and update the website.

Next Meeting:

1. Share suggestion box with pod.

Autumn 3:

Red zone rules poster created and shared with Pods. Pupils also identified that POOP posters needed displaying in all pods.

Next Meeting:

1. Read 'Cool Policies'

Autumn 2: 

Results from questionnaire shared from council. STOP signs on gates for parents and pupils.

'Red Zone Rules' discussed.

Questionnaire headlines:

1. Most pupils think we use the local area in school

2. Out of 5, pupils rated their local area 4.51

3. Pupils liked the name 'Llanrhidian Local Lookers' 

4. Pupils are looking forward to scavenger hunts, IQ's, art, walking and wildlife activities.  

Next Meeting:

1. Design 'Red Zone Rules' poster

Autumn 1:

Art collected for STOP sign; sent to Mrs Caswell and Mrs Gosney to print.

Pupil voice team shared questionnaire developed and need to collect responses by next week (2 weeks).

Next Meeting:

1. Discuss answers from questionnaire

2. Discuss 'Red Zone Rules'.

Initial Meeting: Set Targets:

1. Develop a local area curriculum around the marsh

2. Review 'Cool Policies'

3. Create 'STOP' signs for gates near busy roads

4. Create suggestion boxes for each pod to share their views with School Council

5. Design 'Red Zone Rules' to support pupils

Next Meeting:

1. Collect pupil art for STOP signs