Primary Student Voice
Taking place every term, the theme for March Student Voice was ‘The new library’. Primary students were given time and tools to present their ideas for what they would like the new library to look like.
Dressed up as story characters in the first session, students designed a logo for the library and watched some puppet show and switch activated stories.
Then, in their second session, the students had access to bean bags with audio books and a sensory story.
The groups spent 30 minutes in each session and the last half hour was devoted to a discussion and further suggestions for the new LRC.
Periklis Karachalias, Treloar’s SEN Teacher, said:
Student voice takes place once a term, preparing our students for the school students’ council meetings with more students and longer conversations. We prepare the students by giving them different activities to experience in different contexts. For example, our last Students’ voice meeting was about the new library. After a range of activities, the students have had a conversation with me and Louise Harding (Treloar’s LRC Manager), seeing the plans for the new LRC, choosing the colours they like for the walls and flooring, expressing their opinions and views about activities and resources they are expecting to have. Most students suggested the following colours for the new library: yellow, blue, purple.”
Additional suggestions for the new library from individual students:
– Pony books
– ‘Blaze the monster truck’ book
– Dinosaur books and toys
– Dress up area
– Storyteller