School Council
School Council
School Councillors have regular meetings with Mrs Harrison to discuss what they can do to improve the school and to plan upcoming events.
They also discuss suggestions that other pupils have shared via the class suggestion box.
The School Council representatives have been elected by the children in their class.
Lancaster, Morecambe and District Pupil Parliament
Friday 5th July 2024
Staff from Lancashire equality and diversity team spoke to the children about the protected characteristic of age discrimination.
First workshop - What is age discrimination?
Age discrimination quiz with Zainab!
Second workshop - Neetal talked to the children about legal ages for children in England:
🍺 Drinking alcohol - 18 years 🍷
💳Having a Credit card - 18 years 💳
🚬 Smoking (and vaping) - 18 years 🚬
👰 Marriage - 18 years 💒
🏫 School attendance 5- 18 years 🏫
🗳️ Voting - 18 years🗳️
🚗 Driving - 17 years 🚙
📱 Phone contract - 18 years (16 years with parent guarantor)📱
Snapchat - age 13 (guideline!)
🪑 Chair aerobics 🪑
Final workshop - Age discrimination with Sam.
Making assumptions based on appearance.
Ageism survey.
Lancaster, Morecambe and district pupil parliament.
Friday 26th April 2024
Discussing protected characteristics and equality.
School councillors from year 5 & 6 attended workshops at Lancaster House Hotel focusing on gender & stereo typing lead by Roxy, Seb & Zenab from Lancashire equality and diversity team
Equality act :
Everyone is different and has right to be treated fairly and with respect.
School council members enjoying the sunshine ☀️ and doing our bit to make our school environment a better place by picking up litter.
Thank you for all your wonderful road safety posters!
Fairtrade Conference 2024
On Friday 26th January the School Council Representatives from years 3 & 4 attended the Fairtrade primary school conference.
We were greeted at Preston County Hall by Councillor Cullens who showed us around the Council Chamber.
During the day we attended 3 different workshops. Our first was all about Fairtrade Tea.
Did you know, Britain drinks 800,000,000 cups of tea each year!
We learned how tea is grown on the hillsides in Malawi, Africa.
Fairtrade premium- provides tea growers a fair price for their product, fair working conditions for their workers and also gives membership of a cooperative which provides an extra premium to use in their local community.
We were given a Fairtrade premium budget and had to decide how to spend the money for 5 villages. We decided to build wells to provide clean water, give the villages solar panels, buy health workers and equipment, pay for a teacher, school books, new tools and more crops.
Next was the Chocolate making workshop.
Cocoa is grown in Ghana. We learned how the chocolate grows on trees, is picked and left to ferment on banana leaves. After it is fermented it is left to dry out, then roasted, cracked and winnowed (remove the shells).
To make the chocolate the shells were removed then placed in a blender with cocoa butter for quite along time until they became a shiny, glossy liquid. We then added sugar a little at a time and finally the milk powder. The smell was delicious! Finally the runny mixture was spooned into moulds and put into the fridge to set.
The best part was the tasting - Mollie said it was the best chocolate she had ever tasted!
After lunch we did the Cotton Workshop.
We learned about the lives of children 100 years ago working in the Lancashire cotton mills.
Fairtrade actually started in mid 1800s when the Lancashire cotton mill workers stood up for African enslaved workers on the cotton plantations in USA.
Even now Cotton grows in 65 countries around the world, and only 7 are Fairtrade. Surprisingly, 152 million children still work in the cotton industry! Fairtrade wants to put a stop to that.
Francesca (from the heritage team) showed us how to weave.
WOW I’m sure you will agree we have had a fantastic day!
Quote of the day from Abigail “My cheeks are hurting from too much smiling 😊”.
Pupil Parliament
On Tuesday 14th November 2023 the School Councillors from Years 5 & 6 were invited to Lancaster University to attend the Pupil Parliament.
The children learned that “Protected Characteristics” are the characteristics that are protected by a law called the Equality Act.
The protected characteristic - Disability was the main focus of the day.
The children got to experience what it is like to have a disability.
The children participated in a blindfold walk, a noise cancelling activity, learned some makaton sign language, listened to guest speakers and played wheelchair basketball.
