School Council
Meet our School Council!!
Congratulations to our new School Council Members who have been elected by their peers in each class from year 2 upwards.
Last year, we had the opportunity to visit the polling station and see real voters go inside and make their choice. We discussed using our voices collectively and how this can make an impact to our daily lives when we want to make a difference and see change. Among our achievements were:
- Introducing rules around Playground trades
- Introducing and implementing the EAT SMART project . The children instigated change and a huge saving of 29% was made on the £48,000 of food waste a year.
- We were invited to Magic Hat cafe in Newcastle as a thank you for our work (that was nice!)
- Spending money to replenish our playground equipment
As a result of the Eat Smart project children have held meetings with Newcastle city council over the food choices available. They have, through these discussions secured some changes to School dinner menus city wide! Well done to the children and thank you to Ms. Collins, Donna (school cook) and Georgie from Eat Smart for there tireless work!!
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And we designed the poster-which will appear in schools city wide!
benton park dinner hall poster 2 .pdf
On top of the Eat Smart project we also managed to raise money to re-stock playground equipment
School Council
We’ll look forward to updating you with further achievements and once again, well done to our School Council members of from the previous 2 years!