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Message from the School Council

Hello and welcome to the school council�s part of the website. In case you don�t know, we are a group of students voted in by our classmates. Each year group has two representatives, we discuss school matters that effect us young people. In the past we have made some big changes, like the school uniform, which use to include a shirt.

If you would like to have a look around then please do so.  If you want to find out who your year or school rep. is then you are in the right place. Or maybe you want to know about what the school council have been doing - then just look at our latest minutes. There is a lot here so why not have a look around.....

Year & School Council Members

Shown below are the council members for the academic year 2007 - 2008. This will be updated in the autumn term 2008 for the new academic year.
 

Form	Year Council Representative 1	Year Council Representative 2	Form	Year Council Representative 1	Year Council Representative 2
7An	Jordan	Katie	8Cd	Harriett	Chloe
7Cb	Charlotte	Zoe	8Cf	Guy	Eleri
7Da	Morgan	David	8En	Jamie (Vice Chair)	Michael (Secretary)
7De	Harry (Chair)	Louise (Vice Chair)	8Ge	George (Chair)	Joel
7Di	Georgia	Muzzammil	8Go	Leila	Ashrat
7Hn	Emma	Bradley	8Mn	Lorna	Tom
7La	Leon	Ashleigh	8Ro	Alice	Jason
7Po	Jessica	John	8Sk	Andrew	Becky (Treasurer)
7Sh	Marcus (Secretary)	Gemma (Assistant Secretary)	8Ty	Lauren	Steven
7Su	Harry	Annabel	8Wd	Will	Tiffany
9Ay	Shannon (Assistant secretary)	Shazzan	10Bl	Hannah	Daniel
9Bt	Joanna	James	10Cg	Dominic (Assistant Secretary)	Jack
9Bw	Emily (Secretary)	Tyler	10Ci	Steven	Joshua (Vice Chair)
9Bx	Will	Scott	10Dl	Omar (Chair)	Megan
9Bz	Danielle	Rebecca	10Gd	Robert (School Council)	Sophie
9Cc	Amber	Allegra	10Hv	Lizzy	Adrian
9Ec	Gemma	Callum	10Mh	Chris	Joshua
9Ln	Max (Chair)	Allish	10Ru	Ellie	Becky
9Rb	Alex (Vice Chair & School Council)	Ben (School Council)	10Wt	Bethan	Brandon
9Ww	Mollie	Casey	10Za	Sean	Brighde (Secretary)
11As	Philip	Rosie	Sixth Form Committee: Chair - Alice Vice Chair - Rosie Secretary - Faye Treasurer - Hazel Plus members shown below.
11Be	Alphie	James
11Cs	Becky (Secretary)	Toni
11Ea	Kathryn	George
11Ma	Abi (Assistant Secretary)	Unknown
11Mc	David (School Council)	Beth
11Mr	Jema	Beth (School Council)
11Pa	Sam	Chris (Vice Chair & School/Town Councils)
11Ry	Unknown	Unknown
11Wx	Gemma	Emily (Chair)
12By	Hazel		13Bk	Frankie
12Ca/Mb	Fiona		13Bs	Lizzie
12Cl	Tanya		13Bu	Michael (School Council)
12Mi	Naomi		13Cz	Richard
12Ml	Adam		13Dn	Andrew
12Py	Joel		13Kh	Jess
12Se	Laura		13Lg	Sian
12Th	Steph		13Mm	Sam
12Ti	Sarah		13Pr	Sophie
12Wl	Alex		13Rn	Claire

School Council Constitution

Election of Councillors 

• A councillor, once elected will be on the School Council for one year (Autumn half-term to Autumn half-term).
• Elections will be held during the first half of the Autumn term.
• Two councillors will be elected from each Year group (apart from Years 12 and 13 who will be jointly represented by two councillors). One (at least) must be a member of their Year Council.
• Pupils can stand for election to be councillors as often as they want while they are part of the school.
• Up to 8 other councillors can be co-opted from other organisations such as Youth Town Council, UK Youth Parliament, etc.

Voting and selection procedures

• The Chairperson, Secretary and other officers will be elected by the councillors.
• All decisions taken at School Council meetings shall be by a show of hands with votes for, against and abstentions recorded.
• If a vote is a tie, the Chairperson will have the deciding vote.
• The link teachers and co-opted members are not allowed to vote in School Council meetings.
• Five elected members, including the Chairperson or Vice Chairperson, will constitute a quorum.

Councillors and their behaviour and attitude

• The councillors will treat with politeness any visitors to the meeting.
• Councillors will always be punctual to meetings and other organised events. They will attend all appropriate meetings or send their apologies. Councillors must be reliable.  In certain circumstances retrospective apologies may be accepted at the discretion of the Chairperson.
• A councillor may be suspended from the School Council if their behaviour in school, particularly at School Council meetings, becomes a problem.  Persistent offenders may be voted off by the members.

Structures and procedures at School Council meetings

• School Council meetings will be held at least every half term, and as often as necessary.
• The Chairperson is in charge of the School Council meeting and has the right to silence people or remove them from the meeting if they are behaving badly.
• The agenda will be decided in advance by the Chairperson, the Secretary and others who the Chairperson chooses.
• As much advanced warning as possible of a meeting and agenda will be given.
• Minutes will be taken at every School Council meeting and every decision made will be carefully written down.
• The School Council will invite an appropriate range of people to meetings to help the councillors make the best decisions.
• The School Council must make sure that all people likely to be affected by a decision are informed first and have a chance to comment.
• Initially, for an interim period, two Link Teachers will join the council for guidance and support. This will be reviewed at the first Annual General Meeting of the council.
• The Link Teachers will have the right to advice the School Council over any issues that they believe are not appropriate for discussion.

Promoting the School Council: giving the school community a voice

• The School Council will have a notice board in a prominent place in the school.
• The upkeep of this notice board will be the responsibility of the Secretary.
• Views must be sought from Form Representatives on Year Councils.
• The School Council will have access to and make full use of all other communication methods within St Ivo School when appropriate, including:
  • Intranet/internet � with own web pages/area;
  • Plasma screen in reception;
  • The termly newsletter;
  • Assemblies and
  • Parents events � induction, open and parents�/carers' evenings.

School Council rights and responsibilities

• The School Council fully supports the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and will always try to address issues which threaten or violate these rights.
• The School Council will have a responsibility to help the school become more environmentally friendly.
• The School Council will have its own account and spend money as it chooses.
• The School Council will have the responsibility to make sure that the school buys products from companies that have a good record on human rights and the environment.
• All members of the school will be informed of the decision the School Council has taken.
• The School Council is not a forum for discussion of individuals/individual incidents/issues regarding staff or students. There are alternative courses to address these issues.

Minutes of Meetings

Click on a date for the minutes of that school council meeting (PDF documents).

20th February 2008
31st January 2008
12th December 2007
14th November 2007
17th October 2007