Mrs McCormick, Niamh and Ade attended a Grand School Council event on Tuesday 18th February at Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed in Duffryn. Our first item on the agenda was to meet the Leader, Cllr Batrouni in a question and answer session with other School Council members from Newport. Only 5 questions were allowed and our school was chosen to ask the first question, “What is your vision for the pupils of Newport?” The Counsellor answered that he wanted every child to have the same learning opportunities across Newport so they could be the best they can be and get a good job. We then attended three workshops. In the first workshop we discussed attendance and why it is important to go to school every day, we shared what we do with other schools to encourage good attendance. In our next workshop we met representatives from GEMS (Gwent Education Multilingual Service) and in our group we shared our many different languages. We were spoken to in Polish and realised straight away how difficult it must for children starting a new school with English as a second language. We talked about ways in which we could support them. In our final workshop with Newport Live we shared what we did in our community and what we thought we needed more of. We are going to ask every pupil in our school what they would like on the Underwood estate and feed this back at our next meeting in June. It was a really good day and an opportunity to talk with fellow School Council members.