This year, one of the main issues classes have asked School Council to discuss is that of sweets being brought into school as part of birthday celebrations. This was stopped a while ago as part of the healthy schools initiative.

The children of Brookburn Primary, however, have made the following points:

• It is nice to celebrate your birthday at school.
• It teaches children about sharing.
• Staff have birthday celebrations, including cakes.
• We have been taught about balanced diets and sweets are ok when eaten occasionally.
• It’s a fun part of your birthday if it’s on a school day.
• The small amount of sweets brought in over a year won’t make children obese.
• Most people in school – including adults want birthday sweets back.
• Individual classes are aware of children who cannot have certain sweets for medical or religious reasons and they would make sure these children are not left out.
• It makes everyone happy at the end of the day.
• It is not something that would be happening every week.
• What is more important, a happy school or an award?

We have taken the issue to Miss Ferris and she feels that all people linked with the school should be involved in the decision. We would like to know your views as parents on this issue.

“The children feel very strongly about this. Please do not let them down” Ruby Y5/6

Lots of people said that they liked the idea of doing a craft activity as a Golden Time choice.  The problem is that we don’t have any money to buy resources such as Pritt sticks, PVA glue, paper, crepe paper or tracing paper.

We are trying to collect ideas about how we can raise money to buy these things.  If you have any great ideas please blog to let us know.

Also, if you can think of other resources that would be useful then tell us those too.

Parents! 

If you have any resources that you don’t need (paper, material, paint…) please could you send them in with your child, to be given to Mrs. Mckessy.

Hi, we are your school council.  We are:

Y6 – Finn,  Hope, Lucas and Ella

Y5 – Max, Martha, Che and Naomi

Y4 – Otis, Sofia, Joe and Tilly

Y3 – Samuel,  Camille, Callum,  and Harriet

You can use this page to just say hi, or to ask us any questions that we don’t have time to answer in class.