Pupil Voice
At St. Theresa’s we believe that every child has the right to be heard and to be included in decisions at our school that involve and affect them. This right is set out in Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
At St Theresa’s we have a number of councils, groups and committees that are attended by children and adults alike. These include the school council and the school travel plan group. Children also have the opportunity to help plan, evaluate and review initiatives and programmes throughout the school through class and group discussions.
We take notice of all positive and constructive comments and will respond with explanations, changes, and new child inspired developments.
Bottle Top Mosaic Competition
To try and increase the amount we recycle as a school the School Council have come up with a fantastic idea to help both save the environment but allow us to share our creative talents by having a Mosaic designing competition.
The Year 6 girls have done an amazing job so far creating their wonderful mural using all the donated plastic bottle caps!
School Council
School council are made up of students who sole aim is to try and improve the quality and quantity of life at St Theresa’s! The children were all elected in September and we decided that we would try and organise an event for each month to ensure we were working towards our aims and objectives for 2024 – 25 which are here: school council 24 25
School-council-meeting-minutes October
School-council-meeting-minutes November
School-council-meeting-minutes December
November
For November the school council came together to form a judges panel for our very own 500 words story writing competition and also entered all the children’s stories to the BBC 500 words competition. We had some excellent and truly imaginative entries and sat down and read them as a school council to come up with our school winner.
We also had a fantastic thank you from the London Air Ambulance Charity after they came and did a brilliant assembly explaining what they did in the community. The school council independently ran the raffle and collected over £70 for the charity!
October
For October the school council researched different charities that we could fundraise for. After emailing a number of very deserving charities we received a response from the London Air Ambulance charity who said they would love for us to help. We had a guest speaker come into school and run an assembly for the whole school and were gifted a replica helicopter to raffle off as a prize. The year 6 school council members did a fantastic job organising and promoting the event and managed to raise £70 for the charity. Well done guys!
September
The school council first initiative was to take part in our very own Ed and Bunny Money Heroes character illustration competition. The children were invited to design, draw and describe a new animal friend for Ed and Bunny. We encouraged them to think about what they look like, their characteristics and their attitude towards money: do they like to spend, save or share? The new character must be an original and not based on any other characters. We then met as a School Council and decided our winner was Kitsune – a magical fox.
Young Interpreters
The Young Interpreter Scheme® recognises the huge potential that exists within each school community for pupils of all ages to use their skills and knowledge to support new learners of English so that they feel safe, settled and valued from the start.
Young Interpreters undergo specific training to prepare for this role and are selected on the basis of different personal qualities they may have. The support they can offer to a newly-arrived pupil can be very reassuring from a parent or carer’s point of view at a time when their child may be adapting to substantial changes. It also supports school staff in a variety of ways at different points during the school day.
Our Young Interpreters act as role models for all children within the school and act brilliantly as buddies for those children who struggle with English. They have created some amazing guides in their mother tongue for children to use to help them around the school.
