School Council
The Student Council and The Big Question
At ACSC, we believe that providing our students with an opportunity to voice their opinions and concerns is vital. It not only allows them to make the changes they are passionate about, within our school, but also practise the use of the fundamental British Value of democracy.
Our School Council is made up of a wide range of stakeholders from across our school family. Each term, students spend an allocated form time discussing ‘The Big Question’. This question is chosen from key issues that have risen around school such as: how to improve the school extra-curricular timetable, what changes are needed to make school life more inclusive for all, and what improvements can be made to our school environment.
The Big Question provides an opportunity for all students to have a voice. Each form’s discussion points are then progressed to an official form captain meeting. This is a chance for each form captain to share their own forms opinions and discussion points with their own head of year.
A specific group of form captains then talk through all points raised in an intimate School Council meeting, that is chaired by our Head Boy or Head Girl. This allows our Head Boy or Head Girl to strategically highlight realistic and possible outcomes. These are then passed on to our school SLT team and Head Teacher.
Final decisions are made by SLT and the Head Teacher, which are stemmed from the input from students. The outcomes are then fed back to all students through feedback videos presented by our Senior Student Leaders.
Our overall School Council structure allows for issues to be discussed at all levels of our school and we ensure the discussion points, impact and outcomes go full circle.
Term 1A Big Question - ‘Do you feel safe at school?’
Term 1B Big Question - ‘How can we promote equality for all at ACSC?’
Term 2A Big Question - ‘How can we improve your time outside of the classroom?’
Term 2B’s Big Question - ‘How can we support you in achieving your ideal future career?’
Term 3ABig Question - ‘How can we promote World Cultural Diversity Day at ACSC?’
