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 in 2009, some of the things they have been involved with are:-

  • They have been actively involved in planning and making decisions about the new school uniform and logo
  • voicing their opinions about the new school building to the architects and designers
  • talking with representatives from the Healthy Schools team about school meal provision
  • Helping design and distribute a survey of all pupils mode of transport to school for the Travel Plan
  • Helping at the school polling booths for the Youth Parliament elections
  • Being first to see the new school uniform and web page
  • Helping design a year-end evaluation survey of all year sevens and collating the results
  • Taking part in a Business and Enterprise workshop with our local  B & E ambassador

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