Our School Parliament Ethos

We want our school to be the kind of school that everyone enjoys coming to, where everyone knows and understands each other. We want it to be a cheerful place, where we look after everyone.

We want it to be a safe place where children can be trusted to be sensible, because everyone follows the class and school rules and expectations, and lives by our school values. We want everyone to be honest, have good manners and to treat people and possessions with respect.

We want to be proud of our work and try our best every day, so we do well with our learning and are the best that we can be. We will keep going when things are challenging and listen carefully to each other. We want to find out interesting and useful things about the world.

What is our School Parliament for?

The School Parliament is about:

• Working and learning together
• Learning about democracy
• Learning how to play a positive role model in our community
• Improving our school for everyone

The School Parliament’s job is to involve everyone, not do everything. Everybody needs to help by:

• Finding things that they would like to change
• Finding ways to make things better
• Putting their ideas into actions

How often does School Parliament meet?

• School Parliament will meet once a half-term. There is a set agenda and MSPs from each class will go to the School Parliament meeting to put across their ideas, thoughts and suggestions.
• The Head Boy and Head Girl will take it in turns to be Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Chair of Governors – part of this role will be to represent the School Parliament at Senior Leadership and Governing Board meetings.

What will the School Parliament do for our class?

When the School Parliament shares ideas or puts forward a suggestion, class MSPs will be responsible for taking it to discuss as a class and inform each class about what decisions have been made.

The School Parliament will try to make any ideas happen. If they cannot make the idea happen, there will be clear reasons why it cannot happen.

What will staff do for the School Parliament?

• Make sure meetings happen when they are supposed to
• Ensure that there is time given for meetings
• Support pupils to run meetings and support class discussions