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Our New School Eco Council for 2017-18, voted for by their classmates after presenting their manifestos at the end of September.
The new group of children have got straight to work at their first meeting, completing an Environmental Review and updating our Eco Schools Action Plan. They also looked at a 'Active Travel Pledge' which has now been given to every class as part of our work with Sustrans. This is also attached to this news article.
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We are delighted with our new bird tables that have been built and positioned outside our P3 classrooms to aid P3 with their Bird Topic. The School Eco Council purchased these using some of the money raised from their Bag2School recycling campaign before Christmas. It's great to see our School Eco Council using their budget (from funds that they have raised) to help our school grounds develop. Hopefully the birds will like these as much as we do.
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Thanks to an invitation from the Deputy Lord Mayor, Paul Greenfield, our School 'Eco' Council travelled up to the Civic Centre to see how Armagh City, Banbridge, Craigavon Borough Council conduct business. Our Councillors had a chance to see the Lord Mayor's Parlour and take a seat in Craigavon Chambers which they loved. They also had a chance to try on robes and the Deputy Lord Mayor's chain.
Upper Bann MP David Simpson also took some time out of his busy schedule to meet with our Councilors and talk us through the role of an MP. Our Councilors had a chance to talk about their manifestos and elections within school, and ask the politicians numerous questions about why they got into politics.
This was a fantastic treat for each of our Councilors and we would like to thank the Deputy Lord Mayor Councilor Paul Greenfield for making it happen, and thank Upper Bann MP David Simpson for meeting with us.
To see some pictures, click the 'read more' link below:
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Well done to our new School 'Eco' Councillors. We are delighted to welcome you to our student voice and wish you every success during this current academic year.
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Do you want to represent your class on the School ‘Eco’ Council 2016-17?
If so, get that manifesto written and present it to your class (your teacher will tell you when this is happening).
New Councillors to be elected by
EARLY OCTOBER!
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With the weather being so nice the School 'Eco' Council took an opportunity to get outside and plant some new flowers. Hopefully these flowers will come back year after year given us lovely colours in the Foundation Stage Playground.
The gardening club will soon be updating other planters around the school.
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Today in assembly the School Council launched their new logo. During the last School Council meeting the councillors brought all the logo entries together, picked out their top five (all of which won a prize) and passed these onto the School SLT to choose the winner.
Well done to Matthew Conn for his winning design. Both the School Council and SLT loved how it captured our 'ECO' work and our school motto. Well done.
The winning entry will now be used for all documentatiion produced by the School Council.
You can see the assembly presentation attached as a PDF.
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Waringstown Primary Schools first ‘School Council’
In September we proudly established our own School Council. Children from Year 4 to Year 7 were invited to present their manifestos to their class. A vote then took place to see which child from each class would represent them on the Council.
You can see the 2015/16 School Council Representatives below;
The school council this year will be involved in many discussions and help to make decisions about our school. This year the School Council will
- Set up and maintain class suggestion boxes
- hold and judge a design a logo competition
- feed back information to ALL classes after meetings take place
- Will represent the school when we have special visitors
- Complete an ‘environmental review’ to help us become more ‘eco’ friendly
Mr Gault, Mrs Matthews and Mrs Johnston will be the staff working alongside the School Council this year.