Thank you for all of your kind donations towards Children in Need Day 2025, including sampling the tasty treats that the School Council had baked on Thursday especially for the occasion; the council have counted everything up and can report we raised a grand total of £210 for CIN 2025!

Charities

This half term, we have celebrated raising awareness for Young Minds and School in a Bag. Young Minds works to improve the mental health of children; School in a Bag provides educational resources and eating utensils in a rucksack to vulnerable and disaster- affected children around the world.

School Council Update - September 2025

This half term, we have held our inaugural meeting following on from our class elections. At our first meeting, we agreed our roles and responsibilities within the school and signed our declaration of intent - which can be viewed on our School Council Display. Also on the agenda, was a discussion on which charity we should support this year, as well as looking into how we can support our local community over the Christmas period.

Mr Gordon has asked the School Council to update the displays in the corridor with their own pupil voice ideas about each of our curriculum subjects. Watch out for our suggestions!

We were also able to help organise an assembly held by School in a Bag and ensure everyone was aware of the importance of this local charity.

Starting in the new half term, Council representatives will once again be seen on the playground twice a week (wearing with pride their yellow Lanyards), to note any suggestions that their peers wish to raise at the next meeting.

Our first fund raising event will be held on November 13th – the first of the inter-house cake sales. Our first house to take the stand is Poldens. This will be followed by a Children in Need Cake sale on the Friday!

We would be grateful to receive any plastic bottle bases in preparation for our annual Remembrance display! Any 2-litre bottle bases are accepted – please leave with the school office or with your child’s class teacher. Poppies will be available to purchase from School Council and Prefect members at the end of the school day from Monday 3rd November.

Similarly, if there are any empty spirit or clear wine bottles set for recycling, we would be pleased to receive these also. The Eco-Council will be preparing these for sale at the Christmas School Council Sale.

An Eco subcommittee will be formed again this term, and we will be delighted to welcome newly elected members. This subcommittee will concentrate on environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity-loss and plastic pollution and will continue to carry out projects and initiatives throughout the school and its environment to maintain our recent Green Flag Eco-Schools Award.

On behalf of the School Council, thank you all for your continued support with our charitable work and fund-raising initiatives. We are truly thankful.

Mrs Sherry and Councill

Fairaware Accreditation  - July 2025

Jeans for Genes Day

Our first charity we have supported this year is Jeans for Genes. - Dance in your Denim. As a school we raised a wonderful £75. Thankyou to everyone who supported us by wearing their denim and joined Mrs Sherry to dance in their denim!

Blue Peter Badge Initiatives

The School Council have set an challenge following their school assembly on Monday. 

Blue Peter is a children's television programme that was first broadcast in 1958, it is now the longest-running children's TV show in the world.  You can watch Blue Peter every Thursday @ 5:00pm on CBBC. If you are a fan of the show you will know that they give out Blue Peter Badges, which are very special and can get you into lots of really cool interesting places for free. We have set a challenge for the children at Countess Gytha to see if they are able to acquire a Blue Peter Badge! We have set a challenge of20 badges between now and July. Please read the letter sent out to all households on how these can be achieved.

Our whole school assembly this week was led by The Brue Rotary Club. Their topic was w 4 Polio.  The purple crocus is a symbol of a worldwide campaign to eradicate polio, with its colour representing the purple dye used to mark the finger of a child to indicate they have received their life saving oral polio vaccine. The school ha been given purple crocus bulbs to plant around the school to promote awareness and act as a reminder of this worthwhile initiative. The school council will be helping to raise money for this worthwhile cause in the spring term.  

School Council - Eco members- help with energy audit

Even if the temperature outside is numbing fingers once again, our eco committee of
the School Council can confirm that the schools heating system is keeping minds
focussed on learning! The trust are currently undertaking an energy audit of each school to understand the best use of resources in each building and how to further improve our eco credentials. Jack is happy to report that the underfloor heating is certainly doing its job as we work through this cold snap.

New Lunchtime Initiative Proves a Hit!

This week, the School Council were delighted to start their new idea for Friday lunchtimes - Top Table Friday. Following discussions with their peers, the council held a meeting with Mr Gordon and the lunchtime supervisors to share their ideas on how the initiative would Run and why children would be nominated (good manners and behaviour, politeness and being helpful)lWorking alongside the supervisors and staff members, the School Council will nominate a deserving child from each class who can then invite a friend to sit at the top table. The winners each week will be informed during our celebration assembly. 
Well done to Wren (Pendragon), Ella (Kimg Arthur) Frayer ( Excalibur) and Chloe (Lancelot) who are our first top table attendees.