School Council Members 2025-26

Thank you much for all those who were able to support our Christmas Jumper Recycle Sale! We raised £22 for Save the Children and still have more jumpers for sale in reception. We received such a positive response from families to this new initiative and would like to do it 'bigger and better' next year, which will also mean recycling jumpers earlier in November. We will ask for donations in the autumn term of 2025(!) but I've been informed that we have sufficient storage space in school. If you'd like to donate in January to save room in your attic, then please send any unwanted Christmas jumpers in!

Thank you for the Christmas jumper donations. We have been donated around 40 jumpers which will be sold on Monday 9^th December at 3.15pm outside class 3CB. There will be a suggested donation of £1 per jumper. If you have any Christmas jumpers which no longer fit or are of use, we would love to recycle them at Emmaus. Please bring them to school by Monday. Thank you!

For our first full meeting of the academic year, we met with the Eco Council to discuss the ongoing issue of food waste. We want to reduce the amount of food wasted at Emmaus - it's disheartening to see the bin full of unwanted food at the end of lunchtime. We are considering ways to cut down on this and also to find possible uses for this surplus. If you have any ideas, please speak to one of us. 

The School Council had their final meeting of the year with Cllr Lila Bennett to find out about her role in the local council and to discover more about the general elections which took place last week. They had lots of exciting questions and learnt a lot! Thank you for joining us! 

On Monday 26^th June our School Council members presented an assembly to the whole school to launch the sale of the Emmaus Recipe Book. The children have been meeting with Miss Clifton, our kitchen manager with Hutchison Catering, and helped to select some of their favourite savoury and sweet dishes which we can now make at home! The funds raised from the sale of this recipe book will be donated to Mary’s Meals, a registered charity serving a nutritious daily meal to some of the world’s poorest children to attract them into the classroom where they can gain an education and a brighter future.

There are 67 million primary school-age children out of school around the world; they have to work or beg to survive. And when they do make it into the classroom, hunger affects their ability to learn. 

Mary’s Meals gives children the energy to learn so they can become the men and women who will lift their communities out of poverty in later life.

Mary’s Meals are served in some of the world's poorest countries – Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Did you know:

* The cost of a nutritious school meal is just 10p?

* It costs £19.15 to feed a child for a whole school year?

The recipe book will be on sale from Monday 26^th June for a minimum donation of £1. How many meals will we be able to provide? How many children might we be able to feed for an entire year? We are so fortunate at Emmaus, our children are blessed never to think twice as to whether they will be able to eat at lunchtime. Please give generously! Feel free to buy multiple copies to give to family and friends!

We decided we'd like to raise some money for children who couldn't afford school meals. Watch this space to find out more about our fundraiser for Mary's Meals, an amazing charity. Hear about their work in this video below... 

The School Council met with Jacquie, our cook, to find out more about how the school meals are prepared and to discuss our favourite dishes. They discovered how Jacquie makes sure the meals are nutritious but also stay within a budget. Jacquie brought some lemon muffins and chocolate cookies for us to sample....we all agreed, they were DELICIOUS!