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St Andrew’s High School

School Council Meeting Minutes 15/09/10

 

Present:  

Yvonne Abrokwah (YA), Alice Silcock (AS), Alexander Dilion-McQueen (ADM), Michelle Parker Longdon (MPL) Rachel Chrystie (RC)        Simone Richardson (SR) Amy Hubbard (AH) Rasheedat Olaniyan (RO)

Devante Vaughan- Dick (DV)

Ms Slark

1)	·        Introductory  pages for our planners	Action
	Discussion for a meeting to be held with Mr Matthews over adding pages to the planners with the map of the school as well as some other pages.	ALL
2)	·       SURVEY	Action
	We all agreed in the lasted meeting on doing a survey for the students. We thought the best time for the survey would be before the workshop.  Bring some suggestions to our next meeting.	ALL
3)	Ideas on canteen	Action
	Suggestions were made on improving the quality of the canteen. Representatives from ‘Eden’ will attend a meeting next half term.	ALL

 St Andrew’s High School

School Council Meeting Minutes (III) 04/02/10

 Present:

Samuel Ankoma (SA), Rachel Chrystie (RC), Jemma Haughton (JH), Asa Haynes (AH), Kira Henry (KH), Emmanuel Larbi (EL), Michael Longdon (ML), Jenni Martin (JM), Zoe McConnell (ZM), Emmanuel Oleyede (EO), Simone Richardson (SR), Jacob Trappitt (JT), Reece Watson (RW).

Ms Slark

         

1) Transforming Croydon Schools

o        Ms Slark reported that a bid for interim project is being submitted by Mr Matthew to Croydon Council.

         2) School environment

We’ve been discussing, the school environment, our recent discussion has been based on acquiring bins on the school field.

o        ZM gave us some feedback from her meeting with Ms Tilley, regarding the bins. Telling us that the bins have already been purchased, however a location on the field is needed to place the bins.

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Bins

In telling us that a location is needed we discussed where to place the bins on the field, here is our idea: 

o        Future: Bins in hallways

    3) Uniform

Last week’s meeting, the School Council discussed that all house representatives are to go around all 6 form rooms of their house and converse with the form rooms regarding school uniform ideas. The aim in this exercise was to receive opinions from the school community as to what they want, as well as informing them what the School Council’s recent project is.

o        The Lincoln and Durham house reps were unable to carry out their rounds of their houses, due to other appointments.

        4) Surgery

o        We have decided to hold the Surgery, based on school uniform, to be rescheduled in E3 during lunchtime of this coming Wednesday.

o       Meeting started at 12:30pm and finished at 1:15pm

School Council Meeting Minutes 28/01/10

 St Andrew's High School

School Council Meeting Minutes (II) 28/01/10



Present:

Samuel Ankoma (SA), Rachel Chrystie (RC), Jemma Haughton (JH), Asa Haynes (AH), Kira Henry (KH), Emmanuel Larbi (EL), Michael Longdon (ML), Jenni Martin (JM), Zoe McConnell (ZM), Emmanuel Oleyede (EO), Simone Richardson (SR), Jacob Trappitt (JT), Reece Watson (RW).

Ms Slark

       

  1) Transforming Croydon Schools

o        We talked about projects to change the school, conversed on particular areas that we can improve to make the school better

o        The School will be bidding for 3 different projects, funded by the Croydon Council

o        We also conversed about our 3 priorities.

o        The School Council workshop will take place on Thursday 4th February 3 - 5:30 pm

         2) Uniform

We elaborated on our discussion from last week regarding changing the school uniform which is our most recent project. Here are some more ideas that we came up with:

o        Open collar blouses for girls during summer term

o        Colour of trousers as well as colour of skirts for girls

o        Colour for blazer Lining

o        Optional merchandise for outdoor clothing

E.g. scarves, hats gloves

o         We came up with this idea, to prevent students from wearing inappropriate outdoor clothing on school premises

o        We agreed that each house representative will go round the form rooms of their house to promote our ideas as school council, for uniform. As well as informing them of the Uniform Surgery which will take place in E3.

         3) Notice Board

o        We have decided to update our Notice Board to tell the school what us, the School Council have been discussing, meetings, ideas, projects. As well as what the school community have told us, regarding their ideas from surgeries.

o       Meeting started at 12:30pm and finished at 1:15pm

School Council Meeting Minutes 21/01/2010

 St Andrew’s High School

School Council Meeting Minutes (I) 21/01/10

 

Present:

Samuel Ankoma (SA), Rachel Chrystie (RC), Jemma Haughton (JH), Asa Haynes (AH), Kira Henry (KH), Emmanuel Larbi (EL), Michael Longdon (ML), Jenni Martin (JM), Zoe McConnell (ZM), Emmanuel Oleyede (EO), Simone Richardson (SR), Jacob Trappitt (JT), Reece Watson (RW).

Ms Slark

Apologies:

ML, JT were late, due to a meeting about a trip

 

         1) Transforming Croydon Schools Workshop

We discussed the Transforming Croydon Schools workshops, in which the School Council have been taking part, as regards how effective they were. The workshop is based on making schools across Croydon more modern, with a more friendly feel, to students.

o       It allows us to identify areas within the school which we can work on for the next few years to improve it. Concern about what changes would be made from which current students, and not just future students, would benefit.

        2) Uniform

We discussed the significance of the school uniform as to how we can improve it, with a past school body coming up with the idea of black school jumpers for KS4 students we want to change the school uniform. This is what we talked about:

o       Magnifying the Houses

As well as having ties we thought that we should have more noticeable accessories / features colour coded to the house pupils belong to

o       P.E. Kit

We also conversed over the P.E. kit which we would like to as well be colour coded with reference to the house. Especially due to the fact that this will be very handy during Sport inter-house competitions, etc.

o       Uniform Surgery

We thought that we should hold a Surgery with the topic of Uniform for we would also like an input from the school community, as to how we can improve our school uniform.

o       Each House representative will mention the surgery about school uniform and the school environment, during weekly assemblies as well as going round forms holding discussions during form time.

Next week:

§         House representatives around form rooms

Following week:

§         Surgery

o        Meeting started at 12:30pm and finished at 1:15pm

School Council Meeting Minutes 10/12/2009

o      Detention & Reward System

Mr Revie attended our meeting this week, with him being in charge of the Detention & Reward System. This was the main item on this week’s agenda. Here is what we discussed:

§         We believe that the cause of many detentions is as a result of some teacher’s leniency: Some are more lenient and some are stricter than others.

§         We also believe that some punishments are uncalled for

·        E.g.: planners being misplaced; home learning

·        Therefore we are thinking about removing these punishments from the system.

·        Mr Revie also talked about the new system which has been introduced with Year 9 before the end of term, which is the ‘STAND, PLAN, HAND, LEARN’system. The Year 9 students who are on the School Council who are, AH, ML, EO, SR, JT had given their feedback

o        Meeting started at 12:30pm and finished at 1:15pm

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