St Uny C of E Academy

School Council

Our School Council meets to discuss important issues in our academy. All years from Nursery Year 6 are represented, with the children looking for ways to improve our academy even further and provide a voice for all pupils.
 
Children also represent St Uny at the national 'Younger Leadership Forum' in collaboration with the Diocese. 
 
Please take a look at the minutes from our School Council meetings. 
26.9.25 - Meeting 1
The newly elected School Council met to discuss this year's priororities for the year ahead.
The team assigned the following roles:
  • Chair & Vice Chair. 
  • Treasurer.
  • Secretary. 
The team then moved on to discussing this year's focus charity. Suggestions included the local food bank and 'Surfers Against Sewage', the team eventaully voted for the 'RNLI' to be this year's charity and will start planning fundraising opportunities at the next meeting. 
Our Councillors then decided they want to focus on healthy snacks as a whole school priority this year, as they are concerned about the number of chocolate bars and packets of crisps being eaten at the moment. 
10.10.25 - Meeting 2
The School Council were excited to look in the new suggestions box and found some great suggestions:


  • More sports equipment and footballs for playtimes. 
  • More bins and plants for the outdoor spaces. 
  • Open the polytunnel and pond area for people to use. 
  • A cake sale and 'break the rules' day for RNLI fundraising. 
  • A new playground on the 'splat'.

The leaders were very keen to lead a bake sale as their first fundraising event, this will take place on the 17th October! 

02.12.25 - Meeting 3

The School Council met for their third meeting of the year. They were delighted to learn that they had raised £211 at their bake sale for the RNLI! The team were very excited to hear that they would be visiting the lifeboat station in person on the 19th December to make their donation!

The team then looked in the suggestion box and were delighted by the number of people who wanted to share thier ideas. The children sorted through the suggestions and are pushng for the school to act on the below:

  • Christmas decorations and Christmas art activities in classrooms. 
  • More non-uniform days. 
  • Show and tell in KS2 classes. 
  • Music on the field and playground at break and lunchtimes. 
  • More sports equipment for outdoors. 
  • Keep roller skating club going for another term. 


19.12.25 - Meeting 4

Members of the School Council visited St Ives Lifeboat Station to meet the team, have a tour and find out how their fundraising money will be spent. What a great meeting! 


13.01.26 - Meeting 5

Welcome to our new Year 4 School Councillor, who was elected last week.

We talked about fundraising ideas for the Spring Term - we talked about having another cake sale, we don't want to do these all year round but think it might be a good idea whilst it is the winter and we can't fundraise outside. 

Other ideas included: a junk sale, a coffee and cake morning for the adults, a bake sale and cake competition (themes could link to the charity we are raising money for). In the summer we would like to do an ice cream sale to raise money and also doing the mini marathon to raise money for the RNLI. We could also do a football tournament, water slide or bringing your bike into school to raise money. Clubs: we talked about different after school clubs and the councillors came up with lots of ideas for new clubs: rugby, gymnastics, tennis, mindfulness, drama, bike club, more cross country.