Transcript Citizenship-Making links with the Community.

Developing Citizenship-Making
links with the Community.
Presented by members of
Pillgwenlly Primary
School Council
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Background to our School Council and
how we began to develop citizenship:
First School Council
Full election carried out including :
Secret ballot
Electoral Register (school register)
Ballot boxes
Polling booths
General elections
Our school council started in 2004.
We did it through polling booths.
We also had secret ballots.
Working for our school community
• We began, like all good school councils,
by painting the loos !
• Remember the environment
• Recycled paint from Wastesavers used
Kirby Daniel Court Project
Some School councillors went to Kirby
Daniel Court to share our life stories and
make films with the elderly residents.
WAG Visits
We went to the Welsh Assembly
Government to talk about citizenship
and making links with the community.
Opening of Capel Court
A few school councillors went to the
opening of Capel Court and we helped the
mayor plant a tree to commemorate the
ceremony. Also there was a competition at
school to name the building .
Capel court is a new elderly
resident home opposite our
school.
Official unveiling Ceremony of
the sculpture.
We went to Belle Vue park to see a
sculpture by Sebastian Cook.
The sculpture was called “The
Gardener’s Calendar”, and it showed the
12 months of the year. He created it to
show what can be found in the
environment, month by month, before
global warming destroys nature as we
now know it.
Healthy Eating
• We went to Tredegar House to take part in
the consultation process, called “Appetite
for Life”, about children’s thoughts on
healthy school meals
• On June 3rd the whole school council are
looking forward to taking part in “taster
sessions” of new additions to the school
menu.
Forthcoming visit to Houses of
Parliament
Some school councillors are going to the
Houses of Parliament in London on the
6th of June where we hope to learn more
about the wider community. We are
hoping to meet some members of
Parliament.
Mission Statement
We are the voice of the pupils
telling the management thoughts,
feelings and views of everyone in
the school and we are committed
to making links with in the community.