School Councillors and Eco Warriors

What are School Councillors?

School councillors are a group of pupils elected by their classmates to represent their views and help improve the school. They meet regularly to discuss ideas, raise concerns, and suggest ways to make school life even better for everyone. Being a school councillor is a chance for pupils to have a voice, make a difference, and work together to create a positive and inclusive school environment.

School councillors are elected through a democratic process that takes place each September. Children who are interested in becoming a councillor put themselves forward as candidates and may give a short speech or presentation to explain why they would be a good representative. Each class then takes part in a ballot, where every pupil casts a vote in private for the candidate they believe will best represent their class. The votes are counted, and the candidate with the most votes is elected as the class's school councillor for the year.

Elected candidates will also be our Eco Warriors for the year.

What is Eco Schools?

Eco-Schools is a global programme engaging millions of children across 67 countries, making it the largest educational programme on the planet.

For over 25 years Eco-Schools has been empowering children to drive change and improve their environmental awareness through the Seven-Step framework in order to achieve the international Eco-Schools Green Flag.

Eco-Schools develops pupils’ skills, raises environmental awareness, improves the school environment and creates financial savings for schools as well as a whole host of other benefits.

At Broomhill we are very proud of our school environment. Over the last few years the children have been working hard to improve our Eco Schools programme, their hard work has truly paid off as we have achieved the Green Flag award since 2022. To achieve this the children have completed an environmental review, this review looked at the Eco Schools 10 Eco-Topics. As a result of the environmental review the committee group chose 3 Eco-topics which they are passionate about. An action plan was soon put together from the collected data, the committee informed others of what they found and thought of interesting and creative ways to monitor their work across school. The committee have also created their very own Broomhill Eco Code.

A huge thank you to Ashfield District council for their donation of hi-vis jackets, litter pickers, bin bags and gloves. As you can see the Eco Council were very pleased. In addition, group of Class 7 children have also been involved with Ashfield District Coucil, these children were invited to take part in a Hucknall litter pick and flower planting.