Values Team

In our school, we take great pride in our Pupil Voice! These pupils have been chosen by their classmates to represent Thurlbear and help make important decisions, such as new equipment, new ideas, and even taking assemblies! They are always open to listening to and helping their fellow school mates!

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What is our Values Team for?

The Values Team is about:

  • Learning to work together

  • Learning about democracy

  • Learning how to play a positive role in our community

  • Asking God to help in the decisions made in our school​

Everyone is part of the Values Team

It needs to get everyone:

  • Finding things they want to change

  • Coming up with ways to make them better

  • Putting those ideas in to action

  • Seeing what works (evaluating)

How do our Value meetings work?

  • Say a prayer

  • We share what we’re going to talk about before the meeting, so everyone has time to think and share it with their class.

  • A Chairperson runs the meeting, a child from an upper key stage 2 class, (with help from the teacher if they need it).

  • A secretary takes notes each time, a child from an upper key stage 2 class, (with help from the teacher if they need it)

What will the team do for our class?

When you discuss an idea in their class it will be:

  • Noted down

  • Passed to the next Values Team meeting

  • The Values Team will give you an update within two week

What will the staff do for the Values team?

  • Make sure meetings happen when they are supposed to.

  • Support pupils to run meetings.

  • Sponsor an Action Team by checking that its idea is safe and being an occasional point of contact.

  • The Headteacher will answer all the Value Team’s questions within one week.

  • If the Headteacher has to say ‘no’ to anything, he will explain why.

Staff role in class meetings

Before meetings:

  • ​Ensure there is time given for meetings

  • Make sure this week’s question is up in your classroom at least a day before the meeting

During meetings:

  • Initially model chairing (discuss what worked, what didn’t work)

  • Slowly draw back your role

  • Support quietly – a whisper in the ear

  • Eventually, you want to just be a point of information

Staff role in Value meetings (Mrs Foster-Burnell)

Before meetings:

  • Ensure there is time given for meetings

During meetings:

  • Initially model chairing (discuss what worked, what didn’t work). Slowly draw back your role

  • Support quietly – a whisper in the ear

  • Eventually, you want to just be a point of information.