School Council 2023-24
Meet the team:
Year 6: Gama and Finley
Year 5: Izabela, Aaleeyah, Hanna, Jolina, Regan and Anya
Year 4: Isobel, Alex and Al-Ameen
Year 3: Alyssa
Roles within the team:
Chairman - Gama, Vice-Chairman - Jolina, Secretary - Alex, Vice-Secretary - Al-Ameen, Treasurer - Anya, Vice-Treasurer - Alyssa
Spokespersons - Finley, ICT Coordinator- Regan, Noticeboards - Isobel, Collator - Hanna
We meet every Tuesday lunchtime in Year 3 classroom.
Summer Term 1 and 2 - 2024
For our final project of this year, the School Council have decided to raise awareness and vital funds for the North West Air Ambulance (NWAA).
The NWAA is celebrating 25 years of saving lives this year. The team decided to walk around our playground and count their steps. THe average count was 125 steps completes one round, so to compliment 25 years of this vital charity the team would like the whole school to walk around the playground twice bringing the total walked per child to 250 steps (approximately) to celebrate and link with the anniversary of the NWAA.
This event will take place on Friday 5th July during morning playtimes.
Spring Term 1 and 2 - 2024
On Friday 16th Februay 2024 we launched our NSPCC Number Day to raisae awareness and funds for the NSPCC charity.
The School Council prepare an assembly to promote the great work the NSPCC do working with children and young adults,
including their 'SPEAK OUT AND STAY SAFE' campaign. We raised £91.95 for this hard working national charity.
Approaching Easter, we began working alongside Mrs Nightingale and co-ordinated an Easter Egg Raffle to run across the whole school.
This project supported Caritas' St Josephs Penny charity to help collect loose change to support children in less fortunate families. We raised £258.00.
Meet the winners!
Autumn term 1 and 2 - 2023
Successfully worked in partnership with 'Rochdale Foodbank.'
Our 'Macmillan Event' was very successful and with our friends and families kind and generous donations we raised £337.63.
We worked in partnership with out Gift Team to raise awareness for the Caritas Christmas Appeal #BeeThere and produced 19 'Christmas Gift Boxes.'
We worked with Friends of Holy Family and our GIFT Team to plan, order, prepare and organise our 'Christmas Goody Bag Stall at the Christmas Fair on Friday 1st December. We raised £68.00 for our local homeless charity 'Petrus.'
Autumn Term 2022-we are winners of the 'Caritas Catholic Social Teaching Award.' This award is given to those who recognise and help others in need. WELL DONE TO ALL OUR MEMBERS!
Thank you for your continued support.
PREVIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS
We have worked with Mrs Collins and wrote a letter to local companies to ask politely for any donations for our Christmas Fair, we were inundated with lots of beautiful gifts. The PFA raffle raised £248.00 with these donations. Thank you to all our generous local companies for their kind donations.
Spring term 1 - 2023
A huge 'THANK YOU' for all your kind and generous donations for our local foodbank in Rochdale, the project was a great success.
Each member introduced themselves and explained their roles to Mr Hardiker, Rochdale Foodbank Warehouse Manager. Thank you Mr Hardiker, Mrs Entwistle, staff and volunteers for working with our team and long may your valued work continue.
Your donations will help over 125 families every day.
Spring Term 2
We have been working with our Chaplaincy Team to raise awareness and funds for the people of Turkey and Syria after the devastating earthquakes that happened 6th February 2023. We have teamed up with the Disaster Emergency Committee and created a JustGiving page. We have raised, with your kind donations, £154.00 in total. A big THANK YOU to all our families and friends and for your continuous support.
Summer Term 1 and 2 - 2023
We have been working in partnership with Rochdale Foodbank to create A4 posters to be displayed at the Rochdale unit situated in our town centre. We decided to co-ordinate a whole school competiiton, we had lots of fabulous entries. Mrs Nightingale had a tough job choosing the 10 winners. Each winner received a set of art pencils and sketch book. Congratulations to all our winners. (We are the first school in the Borough to be asked to produce posters to be displaced by the Foodbank).
Our final project this year has been to co-ordinate the 'Children's Champion and Deputy Champion Ballot box.' We planned a short presentation to reveal the candidates. We were thrilled to announce one of our children in Year five - Lena, successfully got through to the final 12. Unfortunately, not this time for Lena.
We wish good luck for next year!
This year we have successfully completed 9 projects, raised awareness and funds for a local, national and international charities totalling £598.00.
Congratulations and very well done to this year's team on your very successful year.
Thank you for your continued support and kind generosity.
Autumn Term 2023
We are raising awareness and funds for the Air Ambulance Charity to help support them with their vital service in saving lives.
Previous achievements:
Summer Term 2022
We have purchased ‘child friendly parking cones' to ensure the safety of our children, parents/carers and families entering and leaving school premises on Great Gates Road. Thank you for your continued support in keeping this area clear of parking. Thank you to Mrs Arnold and our Governors for the funds to purchase these.
School Council Achievements 2021-22
During the Autumn term we worked in partnership with Year Three (harvest) and coordinated all the donations with our Local Food Bank.
We hosted our annual Macmillan Cake Day and raised £294.02, working in partnership with our PFA.
We prepared, planned, organised and presented to the whole school in assembly information on our annual ‘NSPCC – Number Day’ and raised £102.22 with support
and kind donations from all of our children, parents/carers and staff.
Previous successful working partnerships:
We have supported the Digital Leaders with teaching Key Stage 1 & 2 about E-safety and how to keep safe on line.
We have raised money for McMillan Cancer and Fairtrade projects working alongside our PFA.
We have supported our local charity for the homeless-Petrus. We collected kind donations of hats, scarves, gloves and socks. We also raised funds by selling Christmas lollies. Total raised £185.00
Seven members of our School Council successfully attended Peer Mediation Training