1.         The School Council acts as a channel of communication between the student body and the School administration, and vice-versa.  The council is seen as an important and valuable institution within the school community and its reasonable activities will be facilitated by the school.

2.         The School Council provides a formal structure through which the issues of concern to the students may be brought to the attention of the school management and through which the school management may inform the students through their representatives of issues of concern to the school management.  The school management may, from time to time, request the representatives to undertake research among the student body, to undertake responsibilities agreed and to communicate effectively school management concerns to the students.

3.        The School Council may not implement decisions without the approval of the school management.

4.        The Council may discuss and make representations on matters concerning the well being of the student body and on social and environmental matters of concern to them and also overall arrangements of the school which may have an impact on the student body.

5.        Matters relating to individual teachers or pupils are excluded from the business of the council.

6.        Matters concerning particular classes should, generally speaking, be considered by the class concerned with their form teacher.

1.        A President from 6^th Form elected by the other council members of that year group

Duties:

1) Organising all meetings of the council except those involving the school administration and keeping in regular contact with the teacher responsible for the council.

2) Ensuring that all necessary materials are prepared for the meetings (agendas, minutes etc.).

2.        A Vice-President from 6th Form elected by the other council members

Of that year group

Duties:

1)       Assisting the President in any of his/her capacities

2)     Filling in for the President should he/she be unable to fulfill any of the presidential requirements

3.        A Secretary from 5th form elected by the council members of 5th form.

Duties:

1)     Recording minutes during all meetings for further reference and typing these minutes for presentation to the teacher responsible for the council.  The Secretary will be responsible for keeping a minute book of the council’s meetings and for handing that minute book to the teacher responsible for the council at the end of the school year.  The teacher in charge will keep a duplicate minute book.  It should be recognized that minute books are valuable records and, as time passes, become documents of historical interest, and they should be kept formally and carefully.

4.        One representative from each year elected by the members of the

council in his/her year

Duties:

1)     Representing the students in their year at meetings with the school administration

5.       One representative from each form class in each year

Duties:

1)     Bringing forward ideas and suggestions put forward to them by their class mates, attending all council meetings. Class representatives will undertake to inform their class of council decisions and to carry out any research or responsibilities agreed.

6.        Both the Head Boy and Head Girl will be ex-quota members of the council.

7.        The President and Vice-President must have previously been elected to the council as so they have a basic knowledge and understanding of the running of the council.

1.         Any member of the student body can put forward ideas and suggestions by placing a note into the suggestion box located outside the office. These ideas will be collected by the President and presented to the council at the next meeting.

2.         A student council notice board will be created for the benefit of all. The minutes form the previous meeting shall be published and presented on this notice board so as the student body will take an active interest in the running of the council. The President will, through the teacher responsible for the council, request a time from the Principal when he/she may address a whole school assembly near the beginning of the year (prior to the elections) to encourage interest in the council and its activities and to explain the electoral process.

1.         Everyone is equal and may express their views freely.

2.         Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas.

3.         Any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.

Nothing in this charter shall be interpreted as implying any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of these rights and freedoms recognised in this charter.

(This constitution was originally drafted by Holly Naughton in 2002 and was amended and enacted at a meeting of the council in 2003.)