Page 10 - Cherry Orchard Prospectus 2015-2016

School Council
Cherry Orchard’s School Council is very active. We feel that it is important that children have a voice when decisions are to be made. To reflect this our motto is ‘working together for our school’.
Meetings are held weekly with a member of staff and representatives from each class. Each class member is elected during the early part of a new school year. Items for the agenda usually come from the pupils themselves and since we started we have looked at the ’golden rules’ for behaviour, playtime activities, developing the school site, improving the school building and a lot of individual concerns which have come from the suggestion boxes around school. Additionally the Council has led on Community events - for example naming the new cycle ways or planning the new play area on Power Park.
It is great to share concerns and suggestions and together we believe we really can make a difference.
In 2013-4, the School Council were instrumental in the design and subsequent build of a new trim trail for our school playground. The Cherry Orchard design was so good it has even been added to the company’s brochure!
CATERING FOR THE RANGE OF ABILITY
SPECIAL NEEDS
We are committed to ensuring that children with special educational needs make the best possible progress and have been acknowledged for our work in this respect. This area is strongly co-ordinated and a wide range of programmes and activities are available, all child- centred. We focus on effective planning that sets up learning situations for children in which they undertake carefully staged tasks that are purposeful and geared towards their experience.
GIFTED, TALENTED AND ABLE
All teaching at Cherry Orchard is designed to challenge children to succeed and to maximise the quality of their learning. To cater for the most able we promote the use of a range
of learning styles. More able children need tasks that are more open-ended or extended in time or complexity.
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