School Council

Widnes Academy elect representatives from each class to form the school council each year.

To give pupils the opportunity to be involved in improving school life for everyone.
For pupils to work as partners with staff, developing a caring school community.
To provide all pupils with opportunities to develop skills that will be important throughout their lives.
To involve pupils in solving problems and resolving conflicts.
The School Council: each class will elect 2 children to be their representatives.
The school council will be made up of two representatives from each class in years 2 - 6.
The school council will meet about once a month.
The minutes of the meetings will be distributed to classes to make sure everyone knows about the activities of the council.

Class representatives will report back to their class after every school council meeting.
Class representatives will take issues brought by their class to the school council.
They should put across the views of their class, not their own views.
If a representative misses school council meetings twice in a row without a good reason, the class can choose to elect a new representative.

This year our elected School Councillors are:

Pupils section