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Minutes of the School Council Meeting

Held at Park Community Academy on

Wednesday 22nd October 2014

1.  Present:

Mrs Kitchin
Rio Heaton
Liam Senior
Nathan Bettridge-Rowland
Finley Doherty (ECO Ambassador)
Corey Black
Jack Prescott
Lewis Bradshaw
Megan Shergold
Mirabelle Paiva (ECO Ambassador)
Ryan Falkingham
Sophie Pike
Amy Eastwood (School Dinner Ambassador)
Keiran Morrison (School Dinner Ambassador)
Kayleigh Cooper
Kyle Caton
Luke Eaves / 1B
1H
2J
2T
2T
2S
3K
3I
3C
3C
10S
10S
10S
10F
11H
11J

2.  Welcome:

·  GK welcomed the pupils to the School Council meeting.

3.  Request for Friends of Park Community Academy:

·  GK showed the group a booklet that had been made by Amy and Megan to request money from Friends of Park Community Academy for new playground equipment.

·  Megan had written the letter kindly requesting the money.

·  Amy had produced the posters inside with different illustrations of playground equipment.

·  KE has also included some photos of different equipment that could be purchased.

4.  School Council Badges:

·  GK handed out the new orange school council badges.

·  The Yr11 have different coloured badges which are blue.

·  GK highlighted the importance of not losing their badges and they should be worn with pride.

5.  Head Boy and Head Girl:

·  GK highlighted that it might be a good idea to ask permission from Mr Berry to have a Head Boy and a Head Good who could represent the school and do presentations in Assembly etc.

·  All agreed.

6.  Sport Activities:

·  SPJ has asked for some new ideas for extra sport activities.

·  GK told the group to have a think about new ideas to bring to next meeting.

7.  AOB:

·  Luke Mullin said it would be a good idea to bring scooters into school to use a break/lunch.

GK said it could be quite dangerous unless there was a specific track/course for them to be used on.

·  Megan said that walks could be done around the MUGA.

GK said this was a good idea and she would be speaking about fundraising ideas in the future.