School Council Report04/03/2014

-Valentine’s Day results

During the last week of term the school council took on the responsibility of selling Valentine’s roses, sweets and SkyDive4Joe merchandise.

  • They were split into two teams during the preparations to create some friendly competition to see which team could produce the most profit.
  • Alice and Chris, along with Phoenix and Unicorn were responsible for buying and selling the roses,
  • Oli and Lorna, along with Griffin and Dragon were responsible for buying and selling sweet bags.

It was a very successful week where not only did we just sell the Valentine’s gifts but a photobooth was set up in media to allow friends/ couples to have a personalised photo taken and printed, as well as organising live music to be played in the atrium on the Thursday to attract students.

Overall profits of the week were £235.87 which we are very proud of and all of it will be going to SkyDive4Joe.

-School Council awards

The school has been contacted by John Bercow MP, speaker of the House of Commons, and invited to enter the 2014 School Council Awards.

The awards are split into several age groups; we will be entering the 11-16 and 16-19 category (11-16 being presented by the school council and 16-19 by the senior student voice).

Aim is to showcase a project which we, as a school council, are proud of and has made a difference to the school.

The winners of these awards are invited to visit the Houses of Parliament for a prize giving ceremony in the Speaker’s State Apartments.

Over several meetings we have brainstormed different projects that we could present until we decided on the theme of “Charity days” for the 11-16 age group and “School council elections” for the 16-19 age group.

These were the key ideas brought up by the school council:

  • Must interlink all ideas focussing on:
  • Role of school council/ student voice
  • Selection process of the charities for charity days
  • Who can enter
  • How we vote
  • What happens on the charity days
  • Changing the name from “non-school uniform day” to “charity day”
  • SkyDive4Joe
  • Valentine’s day
  • Twitter campaign
  • Charity has gone from the family to throughout the community
  • Getting a tree planted as a memorial
  • Over the next few meetings a draft presentation will be put together, predominantly written and put together by the student council with minimal involvement of the presidents and year 12 captains.

Ideas are still to be discussed between the senior student voice about the content of our project.

-Town Council attending our School Council meeting

On 21st January we were very lucky to have five members of Nailsea town council attend our Tuesday meeting.

  • This came as a result of several members of the school council going to the Tithe Barn before Christmas to attend a town council meeting.

They were very grateful for the opportunity to sit in and observe the workings of our school council, as were we when we visited them.

  • It was a very positive response as they congratulated the Presidents for the organisation and running of the meeting and council in general.

As a result of this, both councils would like to continue to build the relationship in the future.

-Nerf gun war

Suggestion proposed by Mr Duncan is to have a “nerf gun” war in the school grounds as a way of raising money and increasing the profile of school council who will carry out the test run.

A very positive and excited response came from the school council as the idea was put forward two meetings ago.

Multiple ideas for games were suggested by the students including “capture the flag”, “save the teacher” and “teachersvs students”.

It was suggested that this event could be incorporated into house challenges or used for sport relief this year.

The senior student voice have discussed this idea in depth and will have to be something that is thoroughly organised- the finished games may not be able to be played by the rest of the school this academic year.

Health and safety must bethoroughly looked into.

It is a very exciting project that the presidents are looking forward to organising and trying out in the near future.

-Sports Relief 2014

In the next few weeks we will be organising fundraisers for Sport Relief

  • Ideas include a rag day for 6th form, keepyuppy challenge, staff vs sixth form netball match and battle of the year groups football tournament

-Presidential Elections

The school council play a key role in the presidential elections

  • They are responsible for organising the voting slips and handing them out at the polling booths. Some students may also be asked to help count the votes