School Council

Here at Cotwall End, our School Council gives pupils the opportunity to be involved in improving school life for everybody by working together to develop a caring school community as well as offering support to local charities. Our School Council prides itself on making a positive impact in school.

Our School Councillors meet regularly with their classes and hold termly ‘surgeries’ to gather any issues or ideas for improving our school. They then meet as a group once every half term to discuss the surgeries and plan fundraising events.

Here are our wonderful School Councillors for 2024/25:

The School Council hold fundraising events each year. Every child in school, from Pre-School to Year 6, takes part in these events and the children (and staff!) always have a wonderful time!

Very early on Tuesday 21st January, 19 members of school council headed to London to visit the Houses of Parliament.

On our arrival, we all had to pass through airport style security and were issued with a visitors pass. After being given headsets by our tour guide Josh, we began on the steps that have been used by Kings and Queens of the past and present to open Parliament.

We were dazzled by the stunning interior, including the Robing Room, House of Lords and House of Commons. MP's and other officials were busy going about their daily business (as well as lots of other school trips!)

Luckily, there was a debate in session in the House of Commons chamber, which we watched from the viewing gallery.

Our next stop was the House of Lords chamber, where the benches are red. This is where the Monarch opens Parliament.

Finally, we walked through Westminster Hall, the oldest part of Parliament. It's over 900 years old!

Part of our visit included a workshop, where we were lucky enough to meet and question our local MP for Dudley, Sonia Kumar.

We loved every minute of our trip to the

Houses of Parliament.

Our School Council were invited to decorate a Christmas tree in All Saints Church, Sedgley.

The councillors decided to use our school values as the theme. During our last meeting we made decorations in the school colours and linked the school values to The 12 Days of Christmas.

Elliott and Phoebe kindly donated decorations, a star and tinsel.

After a lovely walk up to the church, we were met by church representatives who provided a beautiful tree for us to decorate. We also got the chance to admire other decorated trees.

We kicked off Christmas on 3rd December 2024 with our annual Reindeer Relay. Lots of prizes were won, children had a fun-filled day and we managed to raise an amazing £230 for Mary Stevens Hospice, thank you everyone!

School Council Foodbank Visit

5 School Council members visited the Black Country Foodbank Warehouse in Brierley Hill on Friday 11th October.

Our visit was aimed at gaining more understanding and ways of supporting the Foodbank. Jen, Keeley and all the volunteers were extremely knowledgeable and welcoming. They showed us around the warehouse, explaining how food parcels are put together. There are 27 foodbanks in our region, (Dudley/Sandwell and Walsall) can you believe that there are more foodbanks than McDonalds!

School Council will be putting their heads together soon to prepare an assembly , where we will provide information and ideas for helping our local foodbanks.