I contacted John Macdonald, the Heritage Warden and he suggested several names who we invited and came to school in November. The School Council showed them around the school and then the School Council secretary and Chairperson conducted the interviews. After the interviews had finished, our visitors stayed and had lunch with the children. We were invited to a very special award ceremony at Conkers in March and we then asked the people who took part to come back to school and see the end result - now, you can see it here too!

Children at Viscount Beaumont’s School have a voice
Each class is represented on Viscount Beaumont’s School Council. Members are elected in September by their classmates and meet every two weeks. They take the views of their classmates to the School Council, sharing ideas and making suggestions for change, they also report Council decisions back to their class.

They have been involved in various projects; such as recently organising a competition to choose a design for a new Assembly table covering. In the past they have chosen equipment for use at playtimes, organised money-raising events for Children in Need and decided upon themes for their Christmas parties. Last year they chose the destination of the whole school trip after an interesting debate and were involved in interviewing the candidates for the position of head teacher. Members of the School Council often have the opportunity to meet visitors to the school. This term the School Council met the Chairman of North-West Leicestershire Council, who allowed Tegyn, as School Council Chairperson, to wear his chain of office as they chatted.

Viscount Beaumont’s School Council 2009-2010

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Viscount Beaumont children take part in the Respect Challenge

Our school has recently been successful in applying for some funding called the 'Respect Challenge'. In order to be successful, the school had to suggest a project with the following aims:

involve members of the community
improve public confidence within the local community
involve a new activity or event which the group has not organised previously
build bridges between different generations and have a positive, lasting outcome for the community

We decided to work on a project called 'What is special about Coleorton?' where children at the school invited local community members to share their thoughts and memories about Coleorton and record these interviews. The school council worked to think about the sort of questions they would like to ask and discussed this with their classes.