We are the Ellen Tinkham School Council and we are very proud of our School.

We get together in groups at the School site and at the College to discuss all things that work well for us and also things that don’t.  Amy Ley [Advocate] writes down all our thoughts and ideas and these are sent to the Senior Leadership Team to talk about.

Good Stuff We’ve Done

Our work has included helping design the playground at the school, providing ideas for the building of the hydropool and also making meal times better, and taking part in SENtient Trust meetings with other students from special schools from around Devon.

We also look at the Federation Development Plan with Amy and read through the ideas and support which staff will be giving to us.  Across the year, we can see whether this is happening and can tell Amy what we think about it.

STUDENT COUNCIL MEETINGS AT SCHOOL

All of us love taking part in the Student Council meetings and we think it is important we carry on meeting and talking about things in the School that make a difference to us when we are here.

Summary from Louie of our last meeting in January 2025 - We talked about the snacks we bring [into school] and making a list of healthy snacks to make it fair for everyone.  [For Key Stage 2 pupils]: We talked about the Friday clubs and picked 8 clubs for all the students to choose from on Fridays.   

We are also members of the Champions for Change – “Listen, Hear, Understand”.  Here's a video to tell you more: