Student Council 17th September

 

AGENDA

 

Wi-Fi survey

Computer Lab Opening

Letter

Student Led-Project week

John Walmsley’s email

Hacking of I.T. System

Student Council Communication

Dave and Coursework Calendar

Police

 

Wi-Fi Survey- IT reps will be sending a survey soon about your views on Wi-Fi at the college. Mike Manning will also circulate information from last year’s discussion and survey.

 

Computer Lab-  If the computer lab is closed during the weekend see the kitchen porter through the back door, next  to laundry, and ask for the key. If this is not possible you can call Nick Lush (whose phone number is always on the duty cover list).

Letter - Ricardo is meeting Nick Lush today (Tuesday) to set standards for letters sent home concerning sex.

 Student Led Projects- Second years this is mainly an opportunity for you. If you have any ideas or thoughts about projects you want to run talk to Mariana and/or Karl. The project submissions deadline will be October 15^th (subject to change).

 John Walmsley's email-We want to take action against unacceptable inappropriate and embarrassing drunken behaviour. Student Council will be writing a letter to the resident who complained recently expressing our deepest apologies plus indicating that we will be doing a litter pick this weekend. We would also like to send a separate letter/email to the Llantwit community to apologise again. Please be sensible for the rest of your time at AC and in the future where alcohol and the community is concerned.

 Hacking of IT System - Anyone with any information regarding this issue please go see David Hills or Nick Lush because the computers in the house are incredibly necessary.

 Student Council Communication-House reps will have more communication amongst themselves to ensure that all points from Student Council are covered in house meetings on Sundays.

 Coursework Calendar - The coursework calendar that Dave explained last assembly is an IB deadline calendar that may be flexible in only extreme cases.

 Police- Ricardo, Mariana and Karl will talk to senior management to clarify the situation with the police on campus last weekend.

 

Next Student Council: October 1st

Staff Student Council: 3^rd October

Student Council 15.08

AGENDA

General Discussion about:

Role of StuCo

Plans for this year

 Issues from ‘the Booker’:

Malpractice

Attendance System

Carrel Units

Role of Student Council- We are first and foremost a communicative measure between staff and students. We are not going down a ‘project route’ or ‘making more work for ourselves’ by encroaching on other people’s initiatives such as social events etc. Big issues should come to Student Council to be brought to staff while smaller problems should be directed to reps where possible.

Ethinical Diversity in Student Council - Someone suggested that perhaps Student Council wasn’t ethnically diverse or welcoming. It has been agreed that house reps are not people there to represent their country or ethnicity but are there to represent their house. In this way ethnicity is a non-issue. However, non-natives or the shyer people of the house should be encouraged by house reps to come to Student Council, to run for roles if they would be appropriate and to share their school related issues. Student Council is a place where students of all ethnicities and backgrounds are welcome and house reps and second years should ensure that everyone, especially first years coming in, are aware of this.

Malpractice- To limit malpractice Dave has instructed that a common formatting system is used for all future essays and coursework. The Chicago Manual of Style will be the shared citation and referencing method from now on to ensure consistency and accuracy.

Attendance System - This year attendance will be noted for all codes, activities and service sessions. Basically, just show up when and where you’re supposed to be and all will be well.

Carrel Units- This is an issue every single year. Our main points: Feel free to go and use any carrel unit space but be respectful if someone else’s books are on that desk.  Don’t kick someone out who is using a carrel unit space even if you have ‘claimed it’. Everyone is free to use every space because study areas are limited. The long term plan is to build a second year study unit but until this can happen please be fair and open. (Any Suggestion for fair Carrel Unit distribution is welcome).

Thanks for reading!  

Back to School - 15/08/2012

Hi everyone,
Back to school and enjoying August Period! But it's also back to work. Tonight is the first Student Council meeting of the new school year and I'll be updating asap about the changes, plans and general discussion that takes place.

Watch this space
(that rhymed...)

Student Council Minutes 30.01.12.

AGENDA.

Prom.

Constitution.

Yearbook photo.

Food Reps.

Printing credit update.

Coffee Lounge.

Laundry.

Elections.

Staff-Student Council agenda.

DISCUSSION.

Prom. The date for prom may be the 31^st March but is not yet set for sure.

Constitution. Bill emailed our proposed questions and changes to Nick Lush. We will finalise this at Staff-Student Council.

Yearbook photo. Yearbook photo next Monday for House Reps old and new.

Food Reps. Anantya, Frederik, Kiera, Amy, Einar and Siobhan are the new Food Reps. Gwynedd will have theirs next week.

Printing credit update. Nick Lush said the reason we don’t have as many credits this term is because several years ago students wanted more in third term instead of fourth.

Coffee Lounge. We will work the heads of Coffee Lounge about the possibility of selling school supplies there.

Laundry. If we have problems with the laundry machines, there is a poster behind the washing machines that say where we should call. It is a free number and we can make complaints directly. They will be renewing the contract with the machines next year. FIRST YEARS, DON’T LET THEM DO IT. GET GOOD ONES. Ollie has called the laundry company about the current problem with the dryers.

Elections. We accepted all of the candidates who applied to run for Chair and Vice-Chair.

Student Council Minutes 23.01.12.

ATTENDANCE.

PK – Andy, Maisie

Morg - Sara

Powys – Gerry

Gwynedd – Juan, Karl

Whitaker – Tim, Albert

Tice – Miriam, Emma

Sunley – Eliza, Theo

AGENDA.

* Calendar.

* Constitution.

* Alcohol review.

* Kitchen van etiquette.

DISCUSSION.

Calendar. We decided that the potential Chairs and Vice-Chairs will run on the 31^st January and be elected by the 6^th February, Peer Listeners by 18^th March, House Reps by 25^th March and the rest of the Reps by 1^st April.

Constitution. There’s a document that defines how Student Council is set up. Changing – Secretary to Vice Chair, coordination of various House Rep systems – more responsibility but if operating can save us time in future. VICE-CHAIR IS SPELLED WITH A HYPHEN. Can we extend Board of Governors’ student representative on Academics, Pastoral etc meetings?

Alcohol review. AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JTopics so far are alternative punishments, drunk dorm-mates, alternatives to drinking/ what non-drinkers do, origin of extreme cases, how the culture of it spreads to first years and where it takes place. Each group will produce a summary of what they have concluded so that everyone can know all of the results. BE THERE.

Kitchen van etiquette. IT IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE i.e. IF YOU ARE THERE LAST DO NOT JUMP ON THE VAN IN FRONT OF OTHERS. IT IS A PRIVILEGE NOT A RIGHT TO TAKE THE KITCHEN VAN. PLEASE BE POLITE. And enjoy your free rides.

First code free. Having to leave the house even if you have first code free, is not because of the cleaning ladies but  people skipping codes – Staff find people do it less with this rule.

Student Council Minutes 16.01.12.

AGENDA.

- Breakfast room TV

- Student Council efficiency

- CCTV camera

- Mocks and midterm reports

- Heating in the Carrel Units and History

- Maintenance

- University letters opened

DISCUSSION.

- Breakfast room TV. The TV is currently not working but we think it will be resolved soon.

- Student Council efficiency. We should be aware of bringing up topics that are not relevant to Staff-Student Council and to waste time repeating topics in both Student and Staff-Student Council. If we better organise tasks for individuals to do then we can solve this problem.

- CCTV camera. The camera the school intend to implement is only to film the outside gate to look at who is entering the school that shouldn’t be. It will probably only checked when police involved and is not to catch night-riders or monitor students. The other entrance to the school is locked at night.

- Mocks. Mocks are: the only occasion apart from the IB we can do every paper we will take; harder than the real IB as we have less time; so that we don’t get too confident and revise hard enough; in case we can’t enter the real exam (medical reasons etc.) the grades can be used to predict us a final grade. Midterm reports are: grades for third term, some teachers consider mock grades to be a part of these.

- Heating in the Carrel Units and History. It is cold. Frances will email Nick Lush.

- Maintenance. New suggestion (check last week’s minutes) to make maintenance jobs in houses more efficient. There will be a meeting for the Maintenance Reps on the 24^th at break in the Great Hall and houses should elect first year reps if the second year reps don’t want to be involved.

- University letters. University letters have been found opened in pigeon holes. These are private letters. Frances will ask Sally if they can be kept in the ACO for us to collect instead.

- Alcohol review. This is not about attacking the Code of Conduct; it is about what we can do as students to change the social aspects of the drinking culture. There will be break-out groups similar to in the Conferences (small discussion groups led by voluntary student/staff leaders) and notes of the discussions will be taken to find what we can do to solve the issues. There may be some standardised questions for all groups and then all of the feedback will be put in one final document.

Currently the suggested break-out groups are:

Drunk dorm-mates – whether it is your responsibility to contact a member of staff if you are worried about a dorm-mate/friend.

Punishments – what alternative and more constructive punishments may be for those caught drinking and whether punishment for under and over-age drunkenness should be different and how so.

Alternatives to drinking – what the most successful alternatives would be which would be fun on the weekend. Could there be more sports events in particular, as these are good at bringing all of the school together.

Origin of extreme cases – Like hospitalisation and parties which get out of hand, why do they happen?

Geography – where does the drinking take place and what are the implications of this?

First year spread – what the impact of first years starting to drink is. Why and how it happens. What can be done to those who come to AC as drinkers and influence others? Why is drinking expected and why does it become a habit?

What do non-drinkers do at the weekends?

11.01.12 Staff-Student Council

AGENDA.

John Walmsley

Alcohol review

Alcohol alternative initiatives

Bikes

Light outside Bradenstoke

Face-to-Face activities

Printing credits

Maintenance

Night Staff contact

DISCUSSION.

John Walmsley. Is excited to work with us J

Alcohol review. The date for the Alcohol review is Thursday 26^th January 4:30 – 5:30pm in the Bradenstoke Hall. New suggestions of how this should be run were that we could have a plenary when the break-out groups come back together and that this could perhaps be on another day. IF YOU WANT TO LEAD A DISCUSSION (ANYONE IS WELCOME TO, ON ANYTHING) then come to Student Council on Monday, just for five minutes. WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK J

Alcohol alternative initiatives. The problem with having alternatives to alcohol at AC is that we tend to talk about them more than do them. Sarah Hamilton has come up with a Social Rep scheme 

- 2 Social Reps from each house

- Elected by the House Parents and next year with input by the current Social Reps

- They will be responsible for whole school events as opposed to the Entertainment Reps who are responsible mainly for in-house activities

- They will create a calendar of events to add to the diary to make sure there are always fun alternatives to the pub at the weekend.

Bikes. Students have had bikes/ bike parts stolen over break. We have four bike-sheds and we suggested putting gates with locks on them. The Staff suggested the crime was less during term time and that bikes be stored in the houses over breaks.

Light outside Bradenstoke. Will be sorted by the end of the week and there is also now one on the concrete path up from the seafront.

Face-to-Face Activities. We discussed whether more face-to-face activities would be possible. The problem is having enough transport. We suggested that Services focus on increasing the amount of face-to-face i.e. MEMS working Brownies and more one-off sessions like litterpicks, story reading etc. One of John’s aims was to have more contact with local schools . The netball team in Llantwit and Transition Llantwit – a sustainability project say that AC students are always welcome. Also, if students can organize events the school are happy to support them.

Printing credits clarification. Different amounts of printing credits are given depending on how much coursework the term has i.e. third term has most credits. IF STUDENTS NEED THINGS PRINTING FOR ACTIVITIES, STUDENTS SHOULD EMAIL ELECTRONIC COPIES OF THE DOCUMENT TO ADRIAN WHO WILL PRINT.

Maintenance. The ‘maintenance book’ idea or a similar system should be organised with the Maintenance Staff.

Night Staff contact. The Staff and Night Staff agree that Night Staff contact in an emergency is a problem and think a pager or a walky-talky linked to the main phone system is the most likely solution. The Senior Staff said that in a real emergency it is acceptable to contact any member of staff on campus.
There is no mobile coverage on 2/3 campus which is a problem in emergencies. Maintenance are looking at introducing walky - talkies which can be contacted from any internal phone and also at pagers similar to ILB have. In terms of ambulance and medical response, there is no way we can increase how outside people can get to us as we are so remote but the current response time is around 45 minutes and the Staff consider that to be fairly good.