School Councils in Action Teams:
an example of a successful structure and process
There are six Action Teams and their aims for this year
include:
Team A: Improvements to school buildings,
grounds and facilities including improving the Rose Garden and Courtyards,
eliminating graffiti and providing safe ramps and storage sheds for
skateboards
Team B: To improve student safety and safety
of possessions including a clearer approach to bullying such as homophobic
abuse, which all staff and students understand and better supervision
of open rooms/corridors at lunchtime
Team C: Rewards, communications and Equal Rights including
scraping a merit system and replacing it, using electronic message
boards, digital cameras and a weekly student newspaper to display and
inform on student activities/successes and reward 'badly behaved students'
who change their behaviour as well as rewarding 'well behaved students'
Team D: To improve relationships with the Local
Community and activities for students and after school programmes including
working with local residents to improve relationships in the community
Team E: Raising awareness of and funds for a
local, national and international charity including making arrangements
for Non-Uniform Days and other fund raising and to visit and get to
know the charities which the school supports and share details with
Year groups through displays and briefings
"I'm part of the Equal Rights Action Team and we're organising
a big display about where we all come from to make everyone more
aware of our diversity and different backgrounds" Cotham School
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