It has been another busy month for our Student Parliament!

Pupil voice surveys

We started off the month still in lockdown with a key focus on our pupil voice surveys. Students had the opportunity to look at how we can encourage further reading across the school. There was a lot of interesting feedback including a ‘recommendation board’ by each department where staff can recommend further reading for students. Watch this space!

Students also fed back on their feelings towards returning to school. Pentrehafod was able to use this feedback to ensure that each child had a happy and safe return to school.

Finally, our latest pupil voice survey has focused on extra-curricular activities. Students suggested activities that they would like to see introduced in September and then voted for their top 3.

The winners were:
-Football
-Swimming
-Volleyball

Senior Prefects 

This month, our senior prefects met to discuss feedback on behalf of the whole school and then fed back to Mr. Goulding. Key points this month have been –

-Prayer room for students taking part in Ramadan
-Extra-curricular activities for September
-Year 11 controlled assessments
-Further education and careers information provided earlier in school
-Assemblies
-Reading across the curriculum

More information on the above to follow!

Project Vote

Year 7-10 students have taken part in Project Vote over the last fortnight. Students have had lessons on the Senedd and the importance of voting and have been able to cast their own vote in a mock election. Students chose a party of their choice, alongside children from over 100 schools in Wales, to represent their area. Results will be published after the real election in May! An excellent opportunity for our students to understand the importance of elections.

UK Parliament Workshop

Year 8 students took part in a virtual workshop run by the UK Parliament. They were taught about how parliament works and how it affects their daily lives. Special thank you to Swansea East MP, Carolyn Harris, who joined for a Q&A session with our students – they thoroughly enjoyed.

Another busy month ahead of us with –

– Bullying project with year 9
– Transition work with cluster primaries
– Career information surveys
-Working alongside our eco-committee
-Summer term plans
-And of course our regular year council meetings to inform our planning.

Thanks for reading!
Pentrehafod Student Parliament

 

The story so far….

Welcome to Pentrehafod Student Parliament’s new blog! We will be posting monthly updates here to keep you informed of everything we have been up to.

Here are some of the things we have been involved in over the current school year:

• A new Student Parliament was set up with pupils voting for representatives in each form. Interested students wrote manifestos and presented their ideas to their form classes. Unfortunately this year we couldn’t hold our regular voting day due to COVID restrictions, so instead held our first virtual voting system! Pupils were voted in and successful candidates were announced by Learning Leaders in October.
• Year Councils were set up and had started to meet fortnightly. This has now continued online throughout lockdown.
• KS3 Student Parliament members were involved in trialling lessons for the Children’s Commissioner’s Office. Pupils evaluated ‘Project Vote’ lessons which looked at elections in Wales as 16-year-olds can now vote this year.
• Year 10 have met to discuss how they can work alongside year 6 and 7 pupils to ensure transition is as empathic as possible.
• Year 8 have started to review the options process and have given their feedback on what has worked well and what they would like to see in the future.
• Our Head Boy and Girl, Leah Lopes and Tahmid Hussan were involved in interviewing the new Director of Education for Swansea – an excellent opportunity for both!
• Pupil voice mornings have continued to run each Friday (now virtually!) with pupils having the opportunity to feedback on topics to their form representatives.
• The year 11 senior prefect team have been involved in key discussions with staff regarding centre assessed grades.
• And finally, year 10 met with South Wales Police this week to discuss crime in the local area, what they would like to see from the police and how to improve engagement with young people.

A busy start to the year for the Student Parliament!

Here is what we have got coming up…

• Year 7 students will be meeting to discuss transition and how the school can support our cluster primaries.
• An online workshop with the UK Parliament so our members can find out more about how our government works!
• Year 9 will be working alongside Swansea University to research cyberbullying and the effects it has on young people.
• A ‘return to school’ focus group for students
• And of course our weekly pupil voice mornings (remember to check your emails for the link) and fortnightly Year Council Meetings.