{"id":8716,"date":"2019-02-19T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2021-01-11T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:21:32","slug":"school-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/school-council\/","title":{"rendered":"School Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a guided tour of the UK\u2019s parliament in London two years ago, I was told that the British government is keen for children to understand democracy and to get involved in politics. Democracy has become one of the corner stones of British values that has to be taught in British schools. For children at Dallington, the School Council is an opportunity to learn about democracy and to see it in action at a micro level. Evidence of the children\u2019s positive attitude towards it, is the pupils seeing the School Council to have muscle and influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Councillors meeting with Mr. Dixon to discuss Discipline matters.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Every class from Year 1 upwards at Dallington elects two School Councillors at the start of each term. Through a secret ballot, children are encouraged to vote for someone who they believe is best placed to represent their class\u2019s views at School Council. The post is held for a term and is seen as the most prestigious position for a pupil to hold in the school. It is the councillors\u2019 responsibility on a monthly basis to bring to the School Council pupils\u2019 suggestions on ways in which they feel their experiences at their school could be improved. Ofsted (school inspectors for England and Wales) believe an effective school cannot operate effectively without a school council as the pupils\u2019 voice is vital to provide school leaders and management with a 360 degree of their school. It empowers children and gives them some ownership of their school.  A wide variety of matters are raised and discussed at meetings ranging from playtime organisation and facilities to rewards and sanctions, and even toilets. All meetings are minuted and the minutes are shared with all children, staff and leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winter term 2019 councillors: Edu and Jorge from Year 5, Angela and Guillermo from Year 4, Juan and Almudena from Year 3, Jaime and Giulia from Year 2, F\u00e1tima and Olivia from Year 1.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One cannot fail\nto be impressed by the children\u2019s ability to debate, listen and respond\nappropriately to argument, taking turns and showing respect for the points of\nviews of others regardless of whether they are shared or not. In fact, I think\none or two politicians could learn something from watching our children! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philip Dixon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a guided tour of the UK\u2019s parliament in London two years ago, I was told that the British government is keen for children to understand democracy and to get involved in politics. Democracy has become one of the corner stones of British values that has to be taught in British schools. For children at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13330,"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/13330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dallingtonschool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}