AGENDA
Honour Code
Student Police
Gwynedd Alarms
Tice Door
Window Restrictors
Pre-IB
Attendance Records
ICT Steering Committee
Finance and Fundraising Committee
Pastoral Survey
Honour Code – There was an enormous amount of discussion
about this ranging from having a school based, unwritten honour code to a house
specific honour code. The final ideas that were decided upon for further debate
were; a house based code, a school wide code, a combination
of both house and school based codes or have the houses come up with their top
ten values for an honour code and create a school wide honour code based on the values which are the same for each house.
Student Police – David Lankes will be describing this idea
at 5pm in the Great Hall. Please attend to be
informed because there will be a vote on this next term. Isaac Urner will also
be there to talk about the Honour code.
Gwynedd Alarms – The pitch is ridiculously high and the
volume too loud. Students have complained and we will be bringing this to staff-student
council tomorrow.
Tice Door – Students argue that the back door to Tice should
be un-alarmed as it is the only house with apparent justification for this.
Nick Lush has already spoken to Tice house about this issue however the
students feel that the decision is unfair. It will be brought to staff-student.
Window Restrictors – After complaining that the window restrictors
did not allow enough air it has become clear that no course was taken to
relieve this discomfort relating to lack of air flow. Tim and Shanna will see
John Walmsley to get some action about this problem.
Pre-IB – Our response to this program and John’s information
email will be dealt with at a later date.
Attendance Records – Some students would like the attendance
records on reports to be more clear and state
exactly what code/activity/service session was missed. The arguments for this
are that we need to make sure teachers are completing the attendance records
correctly, there should be more transparency and parents should be aware of
what their children are missing. This will be brought to staff-student.
ICT Steering Committee – This body is formed with Dave
Booker, John Walmsley, Sally Norris, Margot McIntyre and David Hills. It deals
with technology issues around the school. The minutes are available on
mackerel, see Michael Manning’s email.
Finance and Fundraising Committee – Corinne and Mike spoke
to John about this idea. He outlined a committee of 12-14
members who would attend 2 meetings a term with
senior management. They would be trained by Nick Martin
to understand the necessary economic terms. The committee would discuss
finances, potential donors to the college and look to inform the student body
about what the money the college receives goes towards.
Pastoral Survey – There was a lot of confusion about what this survey would be used for, where it would
go, who would read it etc. Some students didn’t feel entirely comfortable
knowing their house parent may read their comments and therefore could not be
completely honest. Students also felt that we have the right to review the
survey to ensure it is not biased of looking for specific answers. We will ask
about this at staff student. It was also noted that the survey only happens every
two years and perhaps it should be more frequent. We would like to be informed
of the general results of the surveys e.g. are students happy with health
centre?
Staff-Student Council will be tomorrow at 9pm in the Great
Hall, anyone is free to attend.
Love,
Student Council xx
