What IS PUPIL parliament?

The Flitch Green Academy pupil parliament is a pupil-led representative body that gives children a formal voice in school life. It mirrors how a local council or parliament works but is age‑appropriate: pupils are elected or selected to represent their classmates, raise issues, influence decisions and help shape aspects of school policy and practice.

Purpose

• Give pupils meaningful influence over day‑to‑day life and longer‑term decisions.
• Teach citizenship, leadership and democratic skills.
• Improve school culture by surfacing pupil views about behaviour, curriculum, inclusion, playgrounds, clubs and well‑being.
• Help leaders test ideas with pupils and increase transparency about changes.

structure

• Classroom elections are held to choose representatives (by class).
• Monthly meetings are held with a published agenda and minutes.
• Miss Thistlewaite oversees the process

What Pupil parliament members do

• Gather pupil views and present them at meetings.
• Put forward proposals and vote on priority actions.
• Work on agreed projects (improving lunch queues, anti‑bullying initiatives, accessibility audits).
• Help communicate outcomes to the wider pupil body and monitor impact.
• Feed into senior leaders and governors on policy areas (where appropriate).

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What is our Pupil Parliament for?

The Pupil Parliament is about:

• Working and learning together
• Learning about democracy
• Learning how to play a positive role model in our community
• Improving our school for everyone

Everybody needs to help by:

• Finding things that they would like to change
• Finding ways to make things better
• Putting their ideas into actions​

Being a school parliamentarian is a really responsible job and as The Flitch Green Academy’s Parliament is evolving, we rely on our parliamentarians to share the pupil’s voice to our wider community.

How does our Pupil Parliament Work?

• Each class will elect a pupil Parliament rep
• The pupil Parliament meets, once every half-term, to discuss and sort out any issues

These may include:

• School lunches (suggestions for the school menu/ different ways food can be served or packaged)
• Behaviour (ideas for rewards)
• Ideas for fundraising events (discussing which charities or good causes to support and raise funds for)
• Planning new playground activities

Staff role in Pupil Parliament

• Miss Thistlewaite leads pupil parliament