School Council
Welcome
to
Our School Council
Our 2024 - 2025 School Counillors
In Year 3: Ayeza, Yusha and Malik
In Year 4: Saffah, Zoya and Layan
In Year 5: Amaya-Rose, Ibraheem and Nabiya
In Year 6: Muhammad, Sohaib, Zayd and Ahmed
To celebrate Children's Mental Health week and highlight the importance of talking about our feelings and emotions, the school council created a podcast. This was released in school on Monday 3rd February.
You can listen to it here.
School Council Podcast February 2025.mp3
The School Council have chosen to look at Wellbeing and Mental Health this academic year.
Watch this space!
2024 - 2025
September is here again and we have a new School Council, voted for by each class.
Keep your eyes peeled as we decide on our focus for this academic year!
2023- 2024
Once again, we are in July and reflecting on another great school year. Children in every year group have enjoyed trips out and about in Lancashire. From Ribchester and Brockholes to Farm visits and canoeing on Queen’s Park Lake, so much learning has taken place both inside and outside the classroom.
We thank all our families for their support at in-school events including the food festival, bread sale and when invited to come into school to spend time with teachers and children. Earlier in the year, the school council helped to plant a micro-forest in Queens Park with plans of leaving a lasting legacy in our community.
Even in the last few weeks of the year, there has been so much to celebrate; we praise our Year 6 pupils for their PHEMONEMAL SATs results and their wonderful production of Matilda; and as a school we were so proud to be awarded the Blackburn with Darwen Sports School of the Year Award 2024. A fantastic end to another school year!
Thank you,
Your School Council 2024
School Councillor's written reviews from 12th March 2024
On Tuesday 12th March, most of the School Council, representing Audley Junior School, went to Queen’s Park to plant trees. First of all, some leaders were chosen. Sofia and I were the leaders for the girls and Ahmed Isa was the leader for the boys. I was so happy to be a leader. Next, we got into pairs. I was partnered with Ahmed. We got our gloves on and were given a trowel, it was a bit heavy. I was so excited!
We went into an area that was a bit muddy, there was orange string and blue ribbons that made a square for us to plant in. We had to dig a hole with the trowel. I have to admit, it was pretty hard. We planted our trees in the holes. You had to start with one tree and then plant more so that there were two in every square. Mrs Naylor took photos.
Even though it was hard, it was really fun. After we had planted the second tree, we moved the orange string and planted our third and fourth trees. When we were finished, we gave our gloves and trowels back. I was a little annoyed because I wanted to stay longer. We took a group photo and then went back to school. We had to make sure we washed our hands really well. We were given our nee school council badges. It was a nice adventure. Our trees will grow really quickly over the next year.
By Safa Mulla 4W
On the 12th March, at 9:15 the School Council set of to Queens Park. We were asked to help plant trees. Upon arrival, we went towards the grassy area designated for our project. We met a kind-heated lady named Jess who provided us with information on what to do. Then, following her instructions, we dug the holes deep enough for the roots of our trees to fit inside.
With determination, we managed to plant two and some of us even three trees per square, arranging them neatly in rows. As we made our way home, a sense of pride filled us, knowing that we had planted a remarkable total of 42 trees – contributing to our environment.
By Hannah Karolia 6P
During the first part of the morning on 12/03/2024 as school councillors we were getting ready for our trip to the park to plant some trees. We checked that we had our trowels, spades, and gloves, and quickly set off. Once we got to the park after a short walk, we made our way towards the duck pond. We walked past the pond to the grassy area where the trees were to be planted. All the school councillors were gathered in an ovel shape to discuss how we were going to achieve our objective; we got into our pairs, and got out our shovels, spades and gloves and started our journey planting trees.
At first, we planted 1 tree. Firstly, we got our tool (trowel) and started digging. Secondly, we placed our tree (with soil) into our hole. Finally, we placed our soil on the root of the plant. We did this process again until all the trees were planted. There were 48 trees in total. After 1.5 hours we were finally finished and took out some time to take pictures and document our work.
After thanking the organisers and instructors for their valued time we walked back to school and finished the rest of the day off.
After processing what we had done, I realised that I felt a sense of accomplishment and happiness that we had given back to our wonderful community. Hopefully, these trees will grow and provide much happiness to the society and be beneficial to the environment.
I think we should appreciate nature and what it gives us!
Report written by:
Sofia Baig 4B
2021-2022
We have had our first School Council meeting and have exciting things in the pipeline!
We will update you shortly!
2020-2021
This year we had our first ever online school council team! It was the biggest team and the most well supported as the children joined us from home and school via Microsoft Teams!
We had half termly well-being checks, talked about what we wanted for our school and had the chance to take suggestions to our teachers and leaders.
We were able to make a difference to lockdown school by sharing fun ideas for year group zoom quiz nights (in year 4) and top tips for staying sane and looking after our mental well-being.
2018-2019
This academic year the School Councillors have helped to arrange many activities around school. For the WWI Centenary, there was a whole school art and remembrance project which was displayed around school.
After Year 5's research on the uses of Palm Oil and the effects on the environment, the decision was made to end Fair Trade Friday (as our choice of chocolates contained irresponsibly sourced Palm Oil) and replace it with Chocolate Friday. Chocolate Friday is due to begin in the Summer Term! The money raised will be donated to Toilet Twinning (where a toilet will be donated by the charity to poverty stricken areas of the world).
The Junior and Infant School Councillors are working together to reduce the amount of litter on the school grounds. They will be hosting a litter picking afternoon on Thursday 9th May.
