Stenton Primary School

Today the pupil council brought some music to use in their music lessons, and Mrs Thomson suggested some new music books the school could buy. The pupil council and P4-7 class are looking forward to getting started on their new songs!

Caroline brought an RSPB magazine, with a view to entering the ‘Wild Art’ competition next spring. The pupil council will consider running this as a whole school competition when more information becomes available.

Ms Finlayson showed the pupil council information about the ‘Cook for life’ challenge, which helps children to learn about healthy food, food hygeine, and in particular food miles. The pupil council were keen to participate and will introduce the idea at assembly this week. It is hoped the event will take place before the October break, and that the whole school (and hopefully the comunity!) will be involved in the next few weeks with suggestions and contributions.

Today the new Pupil Council met for the first time. The members of the committee are Arthur (P7), Emily (P6), Caroline (P6), Alex (P6) and Sarah (P5). Ms Finlayson will be the staff member who works with the Pupil Council.

Ms Finlayson explained that this year one of the things that the pupil council will be responsible for will be maintaining a Healthy School. Ms Finlayson will be taking forward the Health Promoting Schools initiative within the school so this will fit together nicely!

The new committee members were issued with their Pupil Council badges.

All the committee members were keen to provide some sort of school magazine giving information and also some activities and tasks for other children in the school. Ms Finlayson explained that all of the children will be learning how to use the school blog this term, and perhaps we should consider it as an ‘online magazine’ for the time being, with a view to a paper version later (bearing in mind the eco schools considerations).

One thing which all of the committee members felt they would like an input into was the choosing of the school production for next summer. They are keen to do a ‘famous’ musical rather than one aimed specifically at schools. Ms Finlayson explained some of the restrictions, but it was agreed the pupil council would have more input into choosing next years production. However, this will be on the back burner till after Christmas!

They also asked if it would be possible to make some suggestions to Mrs Thompson, our music teacher, about the songs and music they use in music lessons. Ms Finlayson approached Mrs Thompson about this and she is happy to take on board suggestions from the class, if the music is available. The Pupil Council will discuss this with Mrs Thompson and she will talk to the P4-7 class about alternative music.