School Councils

Rights Respecting Delegates

Our Rights Respecting Delegates are a group of pupils from Year 2 to Year 6.  Two children represent their year group, forming a council of 12 children plus the Rights Respecting coordinator Lauren McMahon.  The group meet throughout each term. The delegates are responsible for recording the minutes of each meeting and sharing the ideas and decisions with their classmates, ensuring everyone's voice is heard.

The group's main purpose is to provide pupil voice across the school and work together to uphold and promote the values of respect and inclusion. Our delegates work alongside the school's leadership team in supporting aspects of the School Development Plan. This will involve:

• Taking the lead in developing and delivering the school’s Rights Respecting action plan.
• Ensuring that the whole school is aware of the Rights Respecting Schools Award.
• Providing a link between children and young people, teachers, senior management team, governors and the whole school community.
• Regularly feedback to the school community about progress, including to the SMT, governors, staff and parents.

Our delegates also support our pupils to learn the ABCDE of Rights, helping them understand and apply their rights in everyday life, ensuring they grow up with the knowledge that their voice matters and their rights are respected.

In 2023, London Fields achieved the Bronze Award and we are now on our exciting journey to earn the Silver Award! This means we are becoming Rights Aware- actively learning about and respecting children and their rights every day.

 Eco Team

The Eco Team, led by Natalie Szent-kirallyi, supports the school to promote sustainable living. They meet weekly and work on different environmental projects to improve the school and local area. They are responsible for sharing information with their classes. Some of the projects that the Eco Team have taken part in over the past few years are: planting trees donated by the Woodland Trust in honour of the King’s coronation, planting wildflower seed to attract pollinators to our Edible Playground, working with Hackney Council to conduct a waste audit of our school and implementing ways to reduce our overall waste, teaming up with Hackney Council and the Chewing Gum Task force to improve the appearance of the surrounding area, and encouraging pupils in the school to try to eat more fruit and vegetables with a fantastic tomato tasting experience for all year groups! Our Eco Team are also our sustainability champions, who continue to promote our Sustainability Mission: To meet our needs without hurting the world. As a school, after working closely with The Garden Classroom, we have identified five key problems we all need to address. These were: 

 We also talked about a three part solution to address these key areas in order to meet our mission statement. These were: