text: Reading West MP Alok Sharma went along to Downsway Primary School in Warbreck Drive, Tilehurst, to talk to the children in Years Five and Six.
  And taking notes to help them in their new roles were school councillors Emily Bartlett, Jasmine Blake, Evie Shelver, George O’Sullivan, Jack Layfield and Jakub Herbert, all from Year Six, and Hannah Colangelo and Callum Mackechnie from Year Five.
  The Downsway pupils have also chosen council members who have a special responsibility to make sure the voices of the schools youngest children, Year One and foundation stage, are heard.