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St Joseph's Primary School and Nursery Unit, Bessbrook, Newry

Meet our School Council 2023/ 2024

20th Oct 2023

P4- Mrs Larkin

Aoife Connolly and Sophie Rooney

P6- Miss McArdle/ Mr Doran

Paddy McQuade and Orlaith McComb

P4- Miss Fearon

Cohen Devine and Claire Rafferty

P6/7- Mr McGovern

Ronan Collins and Aoibheann McCaffery

P5- Mrs Hadden

Riley McVerry and Conrad Mone

P7- Mr Traynor

Cara Hughes and JJ Flynn

P5- Miss Smith

Robin Finegan and Jack Graham

LSC- Mrs McNally

Emma Boyle and

Austin Hanna


This is what we are working on at the moment:

  • Each class has had an election and has chosen a representative for their class.
  • The school council will recognise that they are leaders and will act like leaders for you.
  • Our school council representatives wear our badges in order to be always identifiable.
  • We have a school council display to promote the school council and our messages.
  • We attend school council meetings and keep notes on the points raised and discussed, including monitoring attendance and school uniform.
  • We will deliver regular assemblies to highlight issues and remind the children of the work of the school council.
  • Our school council page has been added to the school’s website.
  • We will be writing a newsletter to be written regularly to share updates and news with the pupils, staff and parents.
  • Each class can have a weekly class council in their classes, contributing to pupil voice across the school and to the ongoing improvement of the school.
  • There will be a location and a rota for a school council lunchtime stall in order to provide the pupils with an outlet for their views, ideas and opinions daily, recorded in suggestion books.
  • We will meet with the Board of Governors to feedback pupil voice, ideas and concerns.
  • We will contribute to the work of the school on ensuring a safe environment for the children, for example: anti-bullying work, online safety, reporting concerns.
  • Our school council will decide on a charity to support each term and organise events to promote the charity and the work that it carries out.
  • We will be seeking your ideas for charities we could help.
  • Our school council will seek out opportunities to support the local area through community activities (e.g. litter pick, recycling initiatives and competitions).
  • Our school council will be acting as buddies to the KS1 pupils during break times.
  • We are going to need your help to fundraise for our school, we will be using lots of ideas to fundraise this year.