The Sparrow Saturday* coaches decided to try out a council session, inspired by the Summerhill article (https://adobe.ly/3uFuUmD) shared by one of our non-weekly coach, Tesh.
One of the children was appointed judge by the others and the children took turns presenting their cases. Sharing below the notes of the meeting summarising the discussion by the kids for those who are interested.
Coach Natasha Reflection:
At the beginning I don’t think the kids fully understood the purpose of the council as it was their first experience with it. But thankfully Zach who presented the first couple of cases spoke clearly and gave the other children a reference for the subsequent discussions. They did require a bit of guidance from the coaches on the flow of the session as well.
But overall I think it was a good platform for the children to voice issues they had been grappling with, which they weren’t comfortable previously raising as a group. At the end of the session they were quite keen to have their free play so coaches will probably have to circle back subsequently to check in on how the group would like to organise future sessions
* Sparrow Saturday is a Weekly Forest School session than spanned across the 2020 to 2023. They were all children age between 8 – 12 years old.
Documented by Natasha Saw (2022) on FSS Instagram
Reposted by Darren Quek (2026)
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