CJMLC Student Council

Who are we?
We are the student council. We were all elected by the student body (our year groups specifically) to represent them when putting our ideas to the teachers.
We are representatives form Year 7-Year 13. We currently have sixteen members.

Student council members 2011

School council Reps 2009-2010	Tutor group	Role	Tutor
Jessica Kodove	7Mary		Mr McCann 203
Robin Gray	7Ruth		Ms O Brien 103
Kerry Ann Bryne	8 Lourdes		Mr Rebilliard 205
Ramzia Muna	8 Monserrat		Ms Cousins 207
Amara Barrett-Willett	9 Fouviere		Mr Quinn 11
Mary Muluge	9 Rabweh		Mr Murphy 215
Tianna Johnson	9 Gervasio	Secretary	Ms Anthony 305
Rhianne Crumlin	9 Gervasio		Ms Anthony 305
Gina Walker	10 Gianna	Secretary	Ms McMannamon 219
Kimberly Adiyia	10 Pio		Ms Williams 321
Rebecaa McDermid Lopez-	10 Edith	Chair	Mr Chodzko-Zajko 10
Irene Liamah	11David		Mr Moore 2
Joanne Aroda	11 Patrick		Mr C Foley 1
Alexa Mwanza	12 Claudine		Mrs Khawam 613
Mistura Dawodu	13 Julius	Head girl	Mr Grey 604
Cerise Clarke	12 Aristotle		Ms Juerakhan

How are we elected?
We are elected by the student body through hustings where students give a speech to their year group assembly.
We run a roll on roll off system so that each year we have some new members and some old members to help maintain consistency over time. Students are elected for two years.

When do we meet?
We meet on Fridays with Ms Rayner during the Pastoral period and usually the meeting goes through lunchtime as well.
We meet Mrs Freear on a fortnightly basis with Mrs Freear to discuss key issues that have emerged.
Once every half term we also meet with the Senior Leadership Team.
We also hold a Student Council Week every half term. This involves a consultation of the student body. 5 student are invited form each tutor group to voice their views and to hear about the work of the student council.

How can you hear about us?
We have a student council Notice board on the ground floor of Our Ladies Wing. We have also our own student council website.

How do we work?
We try to work on longer campaigns not just every day matters. Our current campaigns are:
Increasing social opportunities for students and teachers to work together to make leaning more fun and interesting.

What qualities do we possess?
We are confident, comfortable speakers. All of us are role model's to the school and we embrace our titles. We are popular throughout the school and have good relationships with all students. The student council are diverse and we all have good ideas to bring towards the school. We are currently working on improving our effectiveness.

Recent achievements

We have worked together and worked with teachers to implement a new style of Learning Review where Lead Learners and other students get to express their views and identify 2 action points for each department to work on.
Last year we worked with the Teachers’ International Working party to help support the Cultural Diversity Day. This was a great success and we are working on this again this year.
All members of our student council have worked with Creative Partners, a government funded programme that helps increase the effectiveness of student representatives in schools all over the country. Our student council have been very privileged to work with them for the past 3 years.
We have developed skills and created ourselves role e.g. Chairman and secretary, to help with organization and effectiveness. We have also developed personal relationships with each other outside of our meetings.
We are more organized and have developed consistency in showing up to meetings and putting hard work into them.
The student council have also become more student initiated and take all responsibilities for all of our campaigns to make them happen.
Last year we worked on our first formal campaign "Making Learning Fun & Interesting" by first identifying what we thought made a lesson fun and setting up structures to get the campaign across the school. We identified 9 key essential ingredients that we want teachers to incorporate into their lessons to make them more fun and interesting.
This year we are following this campaign up and have been working on "Social Opportunities" i.e. Educational trips etc. With the help of Creative Partnerships we are more than confident we shall succeed. One on the key parts of this campaign has involved our work planning a cross curricular day with teachers. A year 9 group is going to experience a Young Apprentice Day. This should be great fun especially as we are hoping to compete against a teacher’s team.