The School Council is thrilled to have the opportunity to represent our classes and be part of a team that helps make our school even better! We’re excited to listen to everyone’s ideas, share our thoughts, and work together to bring positive changes to St Andrew’s. It’s a big responsibility, but we’re ready to make a difference and help make our school a great place for everyone!

The School Council is delighted to announce that St Andrew’s raised an amazing £180 by coming to school dressed in spots! A huge thank you to everyone who took part and supported this fun and colourful fundraiser. Your generosity will make a real difference. Well done, St Andrew’s!

The School Council is proud to be supporting The Oxtrail, a project which is raising funds for Sobell House. We will be coming up with lots of ideas for fundraising, so watch this space to see if we can meet our target of £960.

The School Council took part in organising "Spotty Day" this Year. They gave an assembly to explain what the charity is and they helped organise the judging for the best outfits!

School Council had requested more lunchtime options, and Mrs Wright asked SASA if they would fund some lunchtime games for our "Nature Area" games box. They kindly said yes, and we opened our  lovely presents in assembly!

Fantastic collaboration between SASA and School Council! 

The School Council organised a Bake Sale on Monday 6th March, to raise money for the Red Cross Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal. There was a fantastic response, with so many cakes donated that we had to have a second sale on Tuesday! 

Alexia had the fab idea that children could come dressed in red and white, the colours of Turkey's flag. 

Over £380 was raised for charity. Well done St Andrew's! 

As part of Hester's School Council speech, she promised a school pet for St Andrew's. School Council were tasked with researching an appropriate pet, ready to present their findings to Mrs Holmes. Lots of pets were considered - including bunnies, guinea pigs and dogs! Barney researched the needs of rabbits/guinea pigs and concluded that they would require a lot of work - and possibly couldn't be kept outside over winter. 

Mrs Holmes reminded the children that we already had the equipment needed for chickens. There was even the possibility of us hatching chickens here at school!

School Council discussed which year group would be best placed to care for some eggs, and decided that Year 2 would be an ideal year (they have life cycles in their curriculum, their classroom is close to the playground, and they haven't hatched eggs before).

Next, we had to persuade Miss Fallon to let us get eggs! 

Here is the letter the School Council wrote to persuade her. 

• School Council Letter to Miss Fallon.pdf

​​​​​​The Year 6 School Councillors presented Mrs Wright with a petition with over 60 signatures! As there are three classes using the cafeteria at the same time, the children at the back of the queue have to wait for longer, and this doesn't feel fair.

As a School Council we brainstormed solutions:

• an extra 5 minutes for Year 5/5/6 lunchtimes,
• the order for lining up rotates each week,
• each class has a way to "earn" being first in the queue, possibly related to Doodle Maths scores. 

Teachers objected to having 5 minutes taken away from afternoon lessons, so that option was quickly ruled out. The school council voted for option three, and decided that the class with the most children completing their Doodle Maths homework should go first each week. 

Super problem-solving for the School Council!