“Welcome to your School Council” 👋 

What does the School Council do?

School Councillors are elected by the pupils in their class to :

* participate in school council meetings and discuss how to improve our school.

* let the class know what was discussed at meetings.

* take views of classmates to meetings via class suggestion box.

* plan and be involved in school events.

Meet your school council representatives:

Year 6 - Lily & Max

Year 5 - Belle & Edie

Year 4 - Ellie & Polly

Year 3 - Tommy & Danny

Year 2 - Reeva & Teddy

🍫 Fairtrade Conference 2026 🍌 

On Tuesday 10th February the School Council Representatives from years 5&6 attended the Fairtrade primary school conference.

We were greeted at Preston County Hall by Councillor Alf Clempson who welcomed us to the Council Chamber.

During the day we attended 3 different workshops.

First was the Chocolate making workshop. Some cocoa is grown in Ghana - we learned how the cocoa beans grow on trees, are picked and left to ferment on banana leaves. After the beans have fermented they are left to dry out. These beans are sent to chocolate makers all over the world. We took our beans and roasted them ready to be, cracked and winnowed (remove the shells). At first it was quite tricky but we soon got the hang of removing the husk leaving the nibs ready to grind and make chocolate. The smell was amazing!
 

Our next workshop was all about bananas. We learned about the banana growing countries along the equator. Our chosen country was Honduras 🇭🇳. We located it on a map and plotted the route bananas would make to get to the UK. 
The revelation of the day was the fact that bananas are a herb - WOW - that was a shock to all of us!
 

Lunch break then our final workshop which was all about Fairtrade Premium. 

Fairtrade premium- provides 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 a nurse and equipment, pay for a teacher, new tools and seeds.

At the end of the day the children were presented with a certificate and goody bag.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their day 😊.