Primary Student Council

What is your role as Student Council Members?

To be the voice of our class and help make the school a fun place.

We are voted to help and stand up for our class and get good ideas and make the school a better place.

We need to organise things.

Our most important job is that we are a link between our schoolmates and the school.

What do you find challenging being in the student council?

It’s tricky remembering that we have a meeting and remembering to wear our Student Council badge.

It is tricky to get people on board with our ideas, like if they need to give money for something.

Sometimes, if a friend is doing something they are not supposed to do, it is hard to know what I should do because they are my friend but I am on the student council.

How does the election work?

We write a letter to the class telling them how we would make the school a better place and the teacher reads them out. They are anonymous so that friends do not just vote for someone because they are their friend but because they think the ideas are good. Then we close our eyes and vote by a show of hands, which the teacher counts.

What are you working on at the moment?

We are helping to raise money for the Grade 12 graduation ball. Primary organised a Boys and Girls Night – it is where there are different rooms, for example a games room, a beauty room, a movie room.

We are working on Christmas Themes. We are organising an Elf Post so students can write each other letters for Christmas, put them in a collective post box. We dress up as elves to deliver them.

Wichteln and bakes sales and a costume contest organisieren wir auch.

We organise things to raise money for charities. This year we have decided to help the school more as a community.

We want to make the school fun, if people have fun we learn more and enjoy being here more.

Have any of you been in the Student Council repeatedly?

Yes, but we have to be elected anew each year. And we can only take part from Grade 3 to Grade 5.

What do you like most about being part of the student council?

It is nice to do things that help people and its fun raising money that leads to something.

It also gives you a feeling of independence.

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