All students at Great Marlow School have the opportunity to contribute their ideas and opinions in school council meetings.
The year councils meet every half term and the whole school council meets once a term. All student views and ideas are considered. An important part of students having a voice is that they feel their opinions are being listened to and are valued, and this ethos is at the heart of the council.
At the beginning of each school year, directors of learning for each year group select two students to represent their year group on the school council. Representatives may be changed at the discretion of the director of learning so that the student voice becomes a shared experience.
There are year councils that feed into the whole school council:
The school council is chaired by the head boy and head girl. Members of the senior prefect team represent Years 12 and 13. These meetings occur each half term and minutes are circulated to all form groups. An agenda is circulated before each meeting.
These meetings will occur each half term and minutes will be passed onto the whole school council which will meet in at the end of each term and will be chaired by the head girl and head boy with Mr Hollyman
Attending: Year 8: Tom Riley; Year 10: George Vaughan, Corinne Fisher; Year 11: Kasib Yasin
Chair: Head Girl Poppy Corbould and Head Boy Sean Bergh
Minutes: Head Girl Poppy Corbould and Head Boy Sean Bergh
AGENDA – Items for Discussion:
Question : The start of the year WWW
Question : EBI
Question : Learning Environment
AOB
OUTCOME
The leadership team agreed that the whole school council meeting could take place in a lesson, once every half term.
Attending: Year 7: Jess Taylor and Martin Bignall Year 8: Aysha Jahangir and Ned Squizzoni Year 9: Hollie Platt and Dean Whitely Year 10: Paul Wyborn and Tabi Collins Year 11: Amelia Liebowitz, Kasib Yasin, Mollie Holdsworth
Chair: Matthew House and Danyal Maruf (Year 13)
Minutes: OHL
Safety : How do you feel about your safety and Well-being at GMS? E-safety
Canteen: Food and lunchtime arrangement: How is the current system working? : What do you think of the canteen food at the moment? : How might things be improved?
Homework: Show My Homework and VIVOs. How are they working? What could be improved?
Building Works: Is the movement around site working? Have you noticed any possible danger areas?
Extra-Curricular additions: Are there any extra-curricular activities which are not running that you feel should be?
Consultation methods for students: How do you like to be consulted about things? Hand-up survey or online poll?
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Attending: Richard Corbyn (Innovate), Sam Weller (Head of GMS Catering) Year 7: Sam Chaplin, Umain Khurrum Year 8: Sophie Hardy, Hayden Simmonds Year 9: Cariad Lucas, Dean Whitely Year 10: Fiona Trew, Joel Langford Year 11: Max Bowles, Louisa Glen Bramley Year 12: Billy Stone, Emily Russell Year 13: Poppy Corbould, Noah Withey
Minutes OHL
Points raised by students about catering at GMS in Year Group Meetings:
Minutes: Richard Corbyn:
Student responses:
Year 7:
Year 8:
Year 9:
Year 10:
Year 11:
Year 12/13:
Chair: Rachel Pearce and Jamie Jack Westfold
Minutes: Mr Hollyman
Council: George Carter, Abi Judkins, Sam Haworth, Miarosa Ledger, Namisha Wratten, Laurie Sutcliffe,Cariad Lucas, Dean Whiteley, Joe Ruffell, Jasmine Kisbee
Chair: Rachel Pearce and Jamie Jack Westfold
Minutes: Mr Hollyman
Council: George Carter, Abi Judkins, Sam Haworth, Miarosa Ledger, Namisha Wratten, Laurie Sutcliffe,Cariad Lucas, Dean Whiteley, Joe Ruffell, Jasmine Kisbee, Lousia Glen-Bramley
Agenda Items for Discussion:
Minutes of the last meeting were read and discussed. All SLT responses to student queries were provided. There were no action points from this discussion.
Additional Items:
Students discussed the naming of the new canteen and came up with the following: Samsbury’s, Morrisams, Food4U and Sam’s/Sam’s Diner
Pride in your school – How can we improve politeness, courtesy and reduce litter and damage?
Assembly and TFTW ideas.