Pupil Voice
At St. Theresa’s we believe that every child has the right to be heard and to be included in decisions at our school that involve and affect them. This right is set out in Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
At St Theresa’s we have a number of councils, groups and committees that are attended by children and adults alike. These include the school council and the school travel plan group. Children also have the opportunity to help plan, evaluate and review initiatives and programmes throughout the school through class and group discussions.
We take notice of all positive and constructive comments and will respond with explanations, changes, and new child inspired developments.
Pupil Voice Survey 2025
Bottle Top Mosaic Competition
To try and increase the amount we recycle as a school the School Council have come up with a fantastic idea to help both save the environment but allow us to share our creative talents by having a Mosaic designing competition.
The Year 6 girls have done an amazing job so far creating their wonderful mural using all the donated plastic bottle caps!
School Council
School council are made up of students who sole aim is to try and improve the quality and quantity of life at St Theresa’s! The children were all elected in September and we decided that we would try and organise an event for each month to ensure we were working towards our aims and objectives for 2025-26.
For October the school hosted a ‘Build for Change’ competition. Children were encouraged to make and upload Lego sculptures that represent a problem being solved such as; pollution, loneliness or war. We were so pleased with the number of entries – it was very hard to pick our winner!
For November we as a School Council organised and judged our own 500 words writing competition. We took in all the entries and read them as a group. It was particularly difficult as their were so many good entries. Our eventual winner was very happy with a set of books from his favourite collection.
In December to promote STEM learning and careers we came together for a build your own robot challenge. We held an assembly to talk about all the jobs that A.I and robots do around us and what we could get robots to do if we had are very own. We then shared with the whole school information on what they can do to enter the competition – see this information School ROBOChallenge
Young Interpreters
The Young Interpreter Scheme® recognises the huge potential that exists within each school community for pupils of all ages to use their skills and knowledge to support new learners of English so that they feel safe, settled and valued from the start.
Young Interpreters undergo specific training to prepare for this role and are selected on the basis of different personal qualities they may have. The support they can offer to a newly-arrived pupil can be very reassuring from a parent or carer’s point of view at a time when their child may be adapting to substantial changes. It also supports school staff in a variety of ways at different points during the school day.
Our Young Interpreters act as role models for all children within the school and act brilliantly as buddies for those children who struggle with English. They have created some amazing guides in their mother tongue for children to use to help them around the school.
