School Council

School Council meet on a fortnightly basis, with meetings being organised by our School Council coordinator Rabbi A Richman. The council is made of representatives from Year 1 to Year 6 and children are selected by a peer based voting system.

School Council represents the children's voice, giving all children at BJCFPS the chance to share their ideas and have their say. We encourage everyone to think of great ideas to help the school to become even more effective. Ideas / issues are passed on to the school council. At the meetings they discuss, investigate, plan, take action or find someone who can help. 

They meet to discuss ways we can help the school to become even better. Sometimes the council will take ideas from the children, others from the staff as well as actions from the Governors and our Principal. Agendas are planned together and children take the lead on these. 

January 2024 Update:

School Council Assembly - What did our amazing pupils say? 

Ita and Livi: Good morning, we have been your school council representatives over the past year and would like to share with you what we have achieved. 

Akiva: You mentioned that there was nothing to do during wet break and that it was boring being stuck inside. 

Alex: So we as school council encouraged you and your parents to bring in board games to keep you entertained. We then shared them out across all the classrooms.

Sammy: There’s still a box of board games in the staff workroom for teachers to take games when it’s wet break.

Meir: You mentioned that you didn’t like bringing in your own footballs because they were getting lost, going over the fence and some children were struggling to share.

Libby: So we, as school council, spoke to Mr Cull and asked for footballs to be bought specifically for each year group.

Joey: You mentioned that our school doesn’t recycle enough. So we, as school council, have made recycling posters which we will be putting on the outside bins for your recyclable rubbish. 

Leah: Please put your plastic, card and tin can rubbish into the bins which have these posters on. 

Livi: You mentioned that assemblies are sometimes a bit predictable and wanted them to be different every so often. We, as school council, asked if any of you had a musical talent that you would like to share in assembly. 

Sammy: We’ve now had some boys from year 4 play keyboard and guitar to Am Yisroel Chai.

Alex: We also do al hamichya some days instead of benching.

Ita: These are just some of the changes which we have managed to make based on your ideas, suggestions and concerns. 

Meir: But our time in school council is over and we are now going to share how YOU can become part of the next school council. 

Livi: Over the winter holidays, you will be given a template as your extra homework to write a persuasive speech. When you come back in January, your class will listen to these speeches and then the new councilors will be chosen. 

Joey: You will need to talk about your personality and how it will help you make more changes to our school. 

Libby: And you’ll need to show that you are confident. Prove to your class that you will be proactive and get things done. 

Akiva: The first thing you’ll be doing is working with us to fundraise for some more books in our Whispering Woods. So try and include some creative ideas on how we can do this. 

Year 6 together: Being in the school council has meant that we have been able to help other children in school have a voice.

Year 4 together: We’ve been able to design and make new changes to Broughton Jewish.

Year 5 together: We know that when we go to high school, we have made an impact during our primary school days. 

Leah and Libby: Thank you for supporting us this year and sharing all of your concerns and ideas. We wish you all good luck with your speeches!

December 2022 Update:

Our School Council are problem solving at the moment to work out a way for school to supply more footballs. We need to make sure that they are kept safe and don't go over the fences or get lost. We are working on this together.

November 2022 Update:

Our School Council meet every other week to discuss ideas to improve our school. This week they discussed how they could improve wet breaks across all year groups. After problem solving and working together, they have come up with a new initiative for wet breaks and lunchtimes. They would like to encourage children to bring in any board games or activities which they are happy to be kept in their classroom to be brought out at wet breaks.

''Now children will have things to do when it is raining outside and still feel they have a break''

September 2022 Update from Rabbi Richman - 

Last year the School Council enjoyed a wonderfully successful year and we want to thank the councillors for all of their hard work and dedication. 

The School Council is a place where the power of democracy and pupil voice comes alive and we have been blessed with a vast array of fantastic ideas since it's inception, ranging from recycling initiatives to creative ideas in enabling children to meet new friends during breaktimes.  The election process for this year's councillors will be taking place throughout September, with two councillors being appointed from each year group. Once the election process is concluded, we will be holding our meetings on Wednesday lunchtimes. 

Please keep an eye out for all the brilliant new ideas we are expecting this year from our new Councillors! We will update this page with more information soon. 

Spring 2022 Update

A quick update from Rabbi Richman - 

We are really excited to have our Student Council up and running again after we had to put a pause on it due to the Covid pandemic. 

We meet bi-weekly with a focus on empowering our BJPS children to take ownership of school issues they have raised.  So far we have looked into a broad range of ideas ranging from fun wet break ideas to recycling/litter monitors.

We are looking forward to the Summer term where we plan on putting our ideas into action and making positive changes at BJPS! A big thank you to all the wonderful and enthusiastic pupils currently involved, who are working hard to make BJPS the best it can be!  

School Council 2021/22: 

Bring and Buy Sale Photographs:

A brilliant event led by the school council at BJPS! Well done to everyone involved, the bring and buy sale was a great success and our school councillors worked hard to coordinate this event - thank you to them all for their continued hard work and enthusiasm! 

What have the school council been up to? A look at our achievements from the school year 2019/2020: 

An update from Mrs A Miller - who ran the school council in the academic year 2019/2020.  Please note, our school council was sadly put on hold during the Covid pandemic but we are up and running again with lots of hard working pupils who are sharing brilliant ideas to improve BJPS! 

Last year, the School Council was involved with improving the school lunch menu. This included themed lunch days- the children particularly enjoyed the Chinese lunch day. They also held a Bring & Buy Sale, raising money for Chai Cancer Care.  Year 6 led the event, which was a great success, raising £737.  Thank you everyone for contributing by supplying items to sell and for bringing in money to buy them.  Thank you to the Year 6 children who set up the stalls and organised the sale.

Well done to all the children who joined the school council to share their views and make positive changes at our school - thank you to them all.