School Council QCA National Project

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School Council QCA National Project

• To find out what children at St. Jamess think
  about the Curriculum.
• Spring Term 2006

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Asher/ Eluned/ Louise

• We played SPLAT with them all.
• We played the Yes and No game.
• We took them on a tour of our school.
• They enjoyed their school dinners.
• We decided to do the project with everyone in the
  school.

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Things the School Council are proud of..

• Our link with the Woodlands Care Home
• The residents laughed a lot when we visited them.
• They liked helping each other.
• Children in Need
• We raised a lot of money for Pudsey.

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Things the School Council are proud of..

• New football kit
• It is going to be ordered.
• The Buddies
• The Buddies are on duty 2 days a week, once in
  the big playground and once in the little
  playground.
• There are Year 6 and Year 5 Buddies, both boys
  and girls.
• There is a lot of equipment the Buddies use.

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Jobs a School Councillor has to do

• come to the meetings
• feedback to the class
• bring the ideas box and folder to the meetings
• find out information
• explain information well
• think of ideas

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Jobs a School Councillor has to do

• lead assemblies
• vote
• meet new people
• give opinions
• ask the class for opinions and ideas
• give everyone an equal chance to speak
• sort out visits
• talk to visitors and take them round the school

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Qualities a School Councillor needs to have

• be responsible for own actions
• be grown up
• listen to ideas
• stand up for yourself
• be confident
• be communicative
• be friendly

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Qualities a School Councillor needs to have

• think for yourself
• be helpful
• not boastful
• be patient
• be reasonable
• be brave
• not scared of new things

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Qualities a School Councillor needs to have

• work as a team
• behave well
• good imagination
• dedicated to the school
• good at paperwork
• everyone should get a say
• everyone is fair

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Qualities a School Councillor needs to have

• pay attention
• be respectful
• be sensitive
• be fair
• be able to share
• help others

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Why do we ask for peoples opinions?

• Everyone can share the fun.
• Everyone has different opinions.
• People want to know what other people think.
• People are interested in what other people think.

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Why do we ask for peoples opinions?

• We want to know what is good for you.
• We want to know if we can help.
• We want to know if people understand things.
• We want to get information.
• You might get what you want.
• You might get what you need.

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Things children can choose

• To go to the disco
• To listen
• To play
• To join clubs
• To put themselves up as a School Councillor
• What to eat
• To learn

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Things children can choose

• To talk
• To read
• To visit the library
• To play football
• To go to the quiet area
• To choose a replacement for a School Councillor
• Who you play with
• What play equipment to play with
• What you want the School Council to do

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Things teachers can choose

• What work and topics you do in lessons
• What homework to give
• Whether you can go on the field
• To teach in a fun way
• To support and encourage you

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Things teachers can choose

• To talk through your work
• To stop children getting bored
• To help you
• To give you ideas to improve
• To explain something to make you understand

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Feedback to QCA

• Year 6 ( Recorded on Graffiti Boards)
• What is the most important part of a teachers
  job?
• How does a teacher know whether they have done a
  good job or not?
• What do teachers and other adults do that help
  you to learn?
• Is the teachers job only to teach?
• Are SATs results important?
• How does a teacher make lessons fun and
  enjoyable?
• Does a childs good or bad behaviour affect
  learning?

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Feedback to QCA

• Year 5
• (Recorded on Online Questionnaires)
• What is important to you?
• Do you learn about the things that are really
  important to you?
• What would you like to learn about?

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Feedback to QCA

• Year 4 (Written Answers )
• What do you most enjoy about school?
• How do you like to learn?
• What do you like about the National Curriculum
  subjects?
• What is your favourite subject and why?
• Are you in any clubs in school or after school?
  Why do you like them?
• What is the best thing about playtimes? Why?

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Feedback to QCA

• Year 3
• (Oral Feedback)
• What makes you feel you are doing well at school?

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Feedback to QCA

• Year 2
• (Draw or write answers /Graffiti Wall)
• How do you show other people what you have learnt
  in school?

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Questions to ask everyone

• What do you like about
• R.E.
• PSHE and Citizenship
• Design Technology
• History
• ICT
• Art
• P.E. Games and Swimming
• Science
• Geography
• Music
• French?

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R.E. Feedback
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PSHE Feedback
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D/T Feedback
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History Feedback
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ICT Feedback
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Art Feedback
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P.E. Feedback
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Science Feedback
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Geography Feedback
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Music Feedback
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Ways to improve the library

• Café
• Different activities that older and younger
  children can join in together
• More games for the little ones
• Permanent Magic Club
• More performance weeks

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Things that are already in the library which you
like

• Lots of books
• Lego
• Being with other people
• Every subject you want is there
• Fun games
• Special days
• Special weeks
• Toy animals
• Top trumps
• Darts

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The Quiet Areas

• Ways to improve the quiet areas
• No loud people
• More equipment
• No running
• Different markings on ground
• Things that are already there or you like
• Quiet people
• Drawing on ground
• Benches
• Walls

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The Field

• Ways to improve the field
• Expand the Trim Trail
• Ball dome
• Plant more flowers
• Permanent goal nets
• A new willow tunnel
• More turns on the Trim Trail
• Things that are already there or you like
• Football field is marked out regularly
• Goals are already in the ground
• Trim trail
• Grass

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The Classrooms

• Ways to improve the classrooms
• More notice boards.
• Nice different coloured walls
• Things that are already there or you like
• The interactive whiteboards.
• Computer
• Display boards
• Wonderweb
• History displays
• ICT displays
• French displays

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The Hall

• Ways to improve the hall
• Fluffy carpets
• More P.E. equipment
• Put good work up around the room.
• Bring the music instruments out more.
• Things that are already there or you like
• Projector
• New lights
• Ropes
• Wall bars

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The Office

• Ways to improve the office
• Have more helpers
• More storage space
• Let children answer the phone
• Things that are already there or you like
• Camera that you see by the gates
• Office Staff
• Office duty
• Shredder

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What happens in the playground

• Buddies help
• Lots of equipment
• Fun equipment
• People play
• Children run around
• Football for each year group
• A lot of kindness
• Games.

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What would you like to happen?

• More room
• Bark area for Key Stage 2
• More benches
• To have a shelter made for when it rains
• Shade areas
• Make sure the people who have football have it on
  their day.
• Tennis

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New Ideas
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Our Letter to Ruth Kelly

• Ruth Kelly, MP,
• Secretary of State for Education and Skills,
• Sanctuary Buildings,
• Great Smith Street,
• London.
• SW1P 3BT
  
  Friday 17th March 2006
• Dear Ruth Kelly, MP,
• RESULTS ON QCA NATIONAL PROJECT ON THE CURRICULUM
• AT ST. JAMESS C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL, STOURBRIDGE,
  WEST MIDLANDS.
• We are the School Council of St. Jamess Primary
  School elected by other children in our school to
  be their representatives. We have just planned
  and carried out a research project in our school
  with help from the QCA and School Councils UK.
  We were one of only 6 schools chosen in the whole
  country because of our enthusiastic School
  Council and this research is going to be
  published by QCA and shared with all schools in
  the country. We learnt a lot through doing this
  and thought you might be interested in what we
  found out.
• Children in our school are proud that they can
  come here. We all get on well together and work
  hard. We enjoy our lessons and learn lots of new
  things because the teachers here make them
  interesting. We think we play our full part in
  the running of the school.
• We asked a lot of questions about the best way
  teachers can teach, how the teachers help us
  learn, the most important part of a teachers
  job, how we show what we have learnt, what we
  enjoy most about subjects, how we like to learn,
  what might stop us from learning, whether we
  learn things that are really important to us and
  what we would like to learn about in the future.
• We found out lots of things but the main ones
  are
• Everyone liked art, learning about religions and
  God, and subjects which required estimating and
  investigating.
• We liked sharing ideas, working with friends in
  groups and being asked hard questions.
• We all liked going on visits and having mentions
  and housepoints.
• Our school now knows what all our children think,
  so we can use these things to make it even
  better. We think all schools would benefit from
  talking to everyone about how they like to learn
  and what they enjoy about their school.
  Collecting all this information together and
  sharing it would get lots of great ideas for how
  to make children in other schools feel more
  involved with their school.
• If you have time you could go on our website
  www.st-james.dudley.gov.uk and if you have even
  more time you could come and see us at work and
  look at the file with all the detailed results.
  We are going to talk to our Governors next week
  and the teachers next term. We are also going to
  run a meeting for all our parents too.
• Yours sincerely,