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TED Team

Our school council is called the T.E.D team.  T.E.D. is an acronym for ‘Together Everyone Decides’.  Our name emphasises the importance of their role in gathering ideas from their peers on what needs improving in the school, including the way things are run and organised.   By ensuring the children’s ideas and thoughts model the ways in which we do things in school, gives us the best opportunity to make their time here valuable and happy.

We have two TED representatives from each class in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. There is a dedicated TED team board within the school which details who is in the TED team currently, as well as displaying details of what the team have been involved in over this school year and previously.

Each year, the TED team writes their own version of the School Development Plan, discussing and sharing their ideas to support the school priorities. Their latest School Development Plan can be viewed here.

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Last year our TED Team attended the CACoT Children’s forum along with school council representatives from other CACoT schools to discuss how we can show our appreciation of and support for the shared green spaces we enjoy within our locality. We met artist Stephanie Brundel who shared some of her art with us and talked about how her art  shares with others some of the issues she feels strongly about. We then learned a little bit about political art and how it can be used to affect change, looking at examples from another local artist, Catman. We came away from this event eager to create our own political art in support of the local spaces that we at St Alphege are grateful for. 

 
Our TED Team invited Ashley Clarke, who does a great deal of work at the Gorrell Nature Reserve (Duncan Downs), into school to talk to them. The children shared their ideas for their political art project with him, in support of protecting and maintaining shared green spaces such as the Gorrell Nature Reserve.  Ashley shared how this happens at Duncan Downs as he is actively involved in preserving and maintaining the space. Ashley talked to us about the many things volunteers do to protect the natural habitat in order to promote a  diverse and healthy environment in which local wildlife can thrive. He shared with us some of the challenges they face, such as littering and talked to us about how we can all do our bit to maintain and protect our green spaces.
 

Following this, the TED Team shared the story, The Last Tree in the City with the school when introducing them to our whole school political art project. The whole school then worked together to create a “green house” . All of our children worked in small groups over  several weeks, weaving natural materials that had been donated by our wonderful families into the frame. Once it was complete, we took photos for our political art piece which highlighted the contrast between our green spaces and urbanisation or industrialisation.

 
 
 
                                                                                                             
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Our TED team representatives are voted in by their class peers and will change each year.  Sometimes additional children are needed to support the work of the team and therefore opportunities for others to make contributions will be available.   If you would like further information about the TED Team’s role and responsibilities, please speak to Mrs Humphreys (Sunbeams teacher).

 

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