Student Council

The Student Council can play a very important and significant role in your child’s life at the City School as, even if your child is not elected to represent their tutor group, the decisions the council makes are bound to have some impact on their lives.

To be elected as a representative does not necessarily mean your child is the most popular in the class or the most articulate, but rather that they have ideas and a vision for how they want their school to go forward and are prepared to spend some of their own time talking about their views in the forum of the Student Council.

Meetings are held in the Learning Resource Centre every other Monday after school from 3.05pm-4.00pm under the supervision of the LRC Manager who helps to keep order and to make sure the minutes are kept as an accurate record of what was discussed and decisions made.

The agreed aims of the Student Council are as follows:-

  1. to represent all students who attend The City School
  2. to provide an environment and platform where all students are respected and listened to
  3. to share ideas with students in other tutor and year groups
  4. to give students direct experience of creating new initiatives, solving problems and achieving their goals
  5. to respect the notion of ‘students as partners’ within the City School
  6. to provide an opportunity for students to express their views, and have their views taken into account, on matters that concern their life in school

The Student Council have had a busy year so far in 2010, some of the things they have been involved with:-

- They have been actively involved in planning and making decisions about the new school building and grounds

- Helping at the school polling booths for the Youth Parliament elections

- Taking part in the Every Child Matters consulation and subsequently being filmed for a training DVD

- Holding a Q & A session with Mick Rooney, Sheffield Councillor for Woodhouse Ward

- Sending delegates to-

                 Sheffield City Council Single Equality Scheme conference 

                 Wicked Waste Street Force conference

                  Sheffield Learner Voice conference

If next year is as busy as this it will be fantastically rewarding for all those who are committed to having their voices heard.