Pupil Voice & School Council

Our School Council consists of 1 child from each class from Years 1-6.

Meetings are held every Thursday lunchtime, at 12.30 sharp! School Council Reps regularly speak to their class about what has been discussed and use questionnaires as a way of retrieving information from classmates.

Each class holds an election and many candidates write speeches as part of the process. The class will then vote.

Class representatives change each term so more children can have a turn on the School Council during their time at Oakthorpe.

Year 6 children are given the chance to run the school council by applying for the below roles and are invited to an interview with Mrs Garrad (Headteacher) and Mrs Kenny (School Council Organiser). They will hold these jobs for the whole year. 

Key Roles:

Chairperson: Chairs the meeting.

Secretary: Takes the register and writes minutes of the meeting. 

Treasurer: Logs any funds.

Social Media Team: Hands out information and writes updates on ‘X’.

Recent achievments of the school council:

• Held an assembly on single use plastic in both KS1 and KS2.
• Meet with Ms Mora about helping the OPS mental health & Wellbeing (MH&W) Action group. 
• Meet with the school dinner suppliers about how meals could be improved and what we enjoy..
• Raised money for the children’s ward at North Middlesex Hospital
• Sold toys to raise money for the children’s ward.
• Held a Children In Need fundraiser.
• Organised a uniform exchange where parents donated uniform and t given away to new home.

Our Aims

• We aim to ban single use plastic in school to help our environment.
• To make our uniform exchange a widely known resource for parents.

President – Layla

Secretary- Amaiya 

Treasurer - Leo

Social Media Team– Lusandro and Lorin