STUDENT COUNCIL 21.02.11.

ATTENDANCE.

Pentti Kouri- Rina, Jose

Morgannwg- Laura, Paul

Powys- Rhys

Gwynedd- Keigo, Nabeel

Whitaker- Marlene, Lala

Tice- Solveig

Sunley- Diego, JP

Others

AGENDA.

-IT Email

- Staff-Student Council agenda

- Next House Rep elections

- Blue mugs in the canteen

- Tythe Barn timings

DISCUSSION.

Bill spoke to the IT technicians regarding creating a Student Council email address. The benefits of this would be a more private link to the Council (hopefully combatting the problem of ‘the less vocal voice of the student body’) and a more direct point of communication for the Administration or outside contacts. The IT technicians will get back to him in the near future.

The topics to bring up at Staff-Student Council:

1. Bringing back the TV screening news and photos that used to be in the area before the canteen. This has been mentioned before and was apparently successful in the past but has since been removed. We will discuss the possibility of bringing it back as students felt it was a useful method of keeping informed on current affairs.

2. Making sure the door by the Top Lawn is opened each morning. Some students have said that they have had problems in the morning with the Night Staff forgetting to open this.

3. Putting hand sanitiser in the houses. After the recent outbreak of the virus and general Winter illness across Campus, some students have suggested that hygiene could be improved if this was available.

Staff-Student Council will take place on Wednesday 23^rd February in the Great Hall at 9pm.

The next elections for House Representatives will take place on the Sunday after March break (13^th March). The second year students will step down from their positions to allow for new first year representatives.

The Canteen Staff have reported a major loss of blue mugs in the Canteen. Before Christmas break, there was one mug per student. In the new term, this has decreased dramatically to filling only four crates (almost half of the previous number). This is the reason we currently have to wait to re-use mugs at break time. Students are reminded that the blue mugs do to not belong to them. Furthermore, the Canteen Staff have said that they have found these items in unorthodox places across campus, sometimes being used for unacceptable purposes. They should be returned to the canteen if they are found lying around. Students are allowed to take their own mugs to the canteen. It was also suggested that we could arrange for volunteers to go around campus to find and return the lost items.

With regards to the problem of compulsory student vs. school organised events clashing, the Council discussed some possible remedies to the situation.

- You can schedule a rehearsal over two days rather than one or have alternative rehearsal dates.

- If people are early in their planning, the Arts Centre service can add a rehearsal to their rota to give assistance etc. Contact the Arts Centre with questions regarding this, should you have an event being organised.

In the coming weeks, the Student Council will be looking to set up a page to document the progress of the long-running issues of the school. This will hopefully be available here on the blog so that those outside of the student body can also access this information. We are also looking at creating a monthly newsletter for the progress of the Student Council’s work as a whole.