School Council organised a “D’Eyncourt’s Got Talent” competition for
CHILDREN IN NEED
on Friday 20th November. The children were really busy all week singing, dancing, reciting poems, telling jokes etc... either solo or as a group to try to go through to the finals on the Friday.
Going by some of the performances - D'Eyncourt really does have talent! It was really hard for the children to pick one finalist from each class to qualify for the Friday afternoon performance, where the whole school watched and then vote for their favourite act using electronic voting key pads.
To generate funds for this Charity we ask both spectators and performers to bring into school 50p, which gave us a grand total of £112 to donate to Children in Need! Thank you for your support!
School Council.
The highlight of the day had to be our
X Factor panel of judges Mr Bull - Cheryl Cole, Mr Taylor - Dannii Minogue, Mrs Sozeri - Louis Walsh and last but not least Miss Williams - Simon Cowell! Thank you all very much for been such good sports!
WEAR IT PINK Our own clothes day event for October was organised to support the
“Wear it Pink” Cancer Campaign.
School Council encouraged children to wear something pink to school on the 23rd October - even the boys!!
The 50p own clothes day donation went to this fund.
We also sold pink wafer biscuits at 10p each during playtimes on that day.
We raised £150 by the end
of the day!
The School Council organised a Christmas Fair during December. Lots of children wanted to participate in running stalls. They organised the stalls and prizes all by themselves. The fair was a huge success and raised lots of money for the School Council Funds. We also had a visit from Santa on the same day to add to the general excitement! By George Dale.
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This year's school council decided we needed some benches for children to sit on at breaktimes.
Mission accomplished!
Next, we are going to have a special 'Art Day' to raise funds for
'Children in Need'.
The Christmas Fayre will be on
Friday 5th December in the afternoon - organised by the school council and staffed by Year 5 and 6 pupils.
Watch this space!
Along with the School Council we held yet another activity day, this time the weather was kinder to us, the sun provided a beautiful day which allowed us to do lots of exciting activities, as well as the traditional jog round the field!
Another big 'thank you' to Joe Taheri (Council Development Worker)
who organised the visit to the local fruit farm to pick fresh fruit with some of our year 6 pupils
(note: who ate more than they picked!) Click the link button below to view pictures - Then click F11 for full page view.
Reported by Joe Taheri
(Primary School Wolverhampton Council Development Worker)
D’Eyncourt School Councillors thought of a great way to find what children at our school wanted to help make it even better – they handed out a questionnaire to every pupil from Reception to Year 6!
Questions in the consultation ranged from asking whether children felt happy and enjoyed being at D’Eyncourt, to how safe they felt in school (on a scale of 1 to 10) and also whether youngsters would like to be given more opportunities to be active.
Almost 200 completed questionnaires were collected and overall feedback from the children was very positive, with 86% saying they felt happy at D’Eyncourt school.
A typical comment was: “I like being at school because I like the teachers and I like my friends.”
The average ‘safety score’ in the survey was 8.6 out of 10 though there were some concerns raised about outdoor play areas, with comments such as: “I don’t always feel safe in the playground because everyone rushes around and sometimes I fall over.”
93% of children also said they would like to be given more ways to be active at school, suggesting all sorts of ideas ranging from ballet, skipping and trampolines, to a running club, new football pitch, netball and even a sports stadium!
D’Eyncourt School Council will now be looking for ways to increase the amount of sports and physical activities available for children, these included the fun activities they did on Sport Relief Day in March.
As a school can we give a big ‘Thank You’ to Joe (and helpers) for their hard work in providing a healthy, delicious mixed fruit salad after the children had completed their run on Sport Relief Day.
