What is The Margaret Wix School Parliament? 

At Margaret Wix, we have an School Parliament.  Year sixes have the opportunity to apply for a position on the ministerial team and interview for their roles. Each class selects a parliament representative too - these children are the voices of the class and attend School Parliament meetings, which take place each half term. At the meetings, children have the opportunity to have their say about Margaret Wix and discuss ideas for further improving the school. Children share their views in class by posting them in the parliament box in their classroom and their representative brings these to the meeting.

What is a House Captain?

In September 2021, the children at Margaret Wix put forward names of inspiring people, whom they wanted our four houses to be named after. A school-wide vote took place and the four names selected were:

Greta Thunberg

Sir David Attenborough (white)

Marcus Rashford

Sky Brown

Two year sixes are voted for each year to become House Captains. Their main role of is to inspire and lead their team throughout the year in a range of inter-house activities such as bake-offs, photography competitions and sports day. You can find out more about each house and keep track of this half term's house point totals here.

What is a Charity Committee?

Our Charity Committee is a group of year six children who work together to organise a range of charitable events from Food Bank collections to Red Nose Day, as well as everything in-between. At Margaret Wix, we believe in helping others outside of our school community as well as ourselves and so each year the committee select a different local charity to support. Keep an eye out for an announcement regarding this year's chosen charity and our first charity event.

Reading Ambassadors

This half term has been a great one for promoting reading at Margaret Wix: we have appointed 10 new reading ambassadors! Every child, in school, had the opportunity to apply for the role; they had to fill out an application form to tell us why they would be a perfect candidate. The chosen applicants came up with some fantastic and innovative ideas on how to further promote a love of reading across the school. Our reading ambassadors have already begun doing just that: they have created reading scrapbooks; tidied the school library and class libraries; spoken to visitors about how reading is a top priority at Margaret Wix and some have even read to other parents and children at early morning library club.  We look forward to updating you soon with further achievements from the ambassadors.

Take a look at our inspirational reading ambassadors below: 

Maths Ambassadors

At Margaret Wix, we have a team of pupils who are our Maths Ambassadors. These pupils promote maths across the school, act as experts in classes and celebrate mathematical achievements of others in assemblies, to name just a few of their roles. We have a Maths Ambassador in each of our KS1 and KS2 classes.

Digital Leaders

Our team of Digital Leaders are a group of children from Years 3-6 who have an interest in all things Computing!  There were lots of applicants and these are the lucky 4 that have been chosen this year.  The main aim of our Digital Leaders is to inspire young people to encourage others to use technology in a positive way in the school or local community. 

This year, their jobs might be to:

• Test and review new computing resources, which could be websites, software or hardware.

• Share their skills and expertise with other pupils, classes and teachers.

• Set up computing equipment in classrooms for teachers.

• Support teachers in using technology in the classroom.

Junior Citizenship Challenge

At Margaret Wix Primary School, children in Key Stage Two are encouraged to take part in the Junior Citizenship Challenge, Each child is given a booklet with a variety of different tasks listed in it from running a club to performing acts of kindness for someone in the community. The challenge will increase use of our five learning powers as well as ensuring our children become citizens of the future and the present, whilst learning to see something through from beginning to end - a very important skill in today's society. If they complete all of the tasks for their year group, they will be invited to an evening towards the end of the academic year where they will be presented with an award, and given the opportunity to enjoy drinks and snacks. In addition to this, one lucky pupil will be chosen to be headteacher for the day and work alongside Mrs Gibbs for a day of leadership across the school.

Margaret Wix - the small school with high aspirations! 

Well done to all our Junior Citizen Champions! Giving back to others is so important and we are so proud that our children are great citizens for today and the future. It was lovely to see Veera win the prize of being headteacher for the day and everyone seemed to enjoy the party to celebrate! Get involved next year everyone!

Headteacher for the Day was Veera