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School council
1st Vrontados Primary SchoolChios-Greece
How to organize a school council• We got ideas from the
British site www.involver.org.uk and a seminar in Prague on how to make school councils organised by the Czech partner school with CEDU the centre for democracy in education.
Preparation• Brainstorm with the
word “rights”. • Discussion on the rights
and ways to stand up for them.
• Conclusion:students’ representation is the best way to get involved and defend your rights.
• The idea of a school council came up.
Orientation
• The students divided in small groups walked around the school and wrote down the problems of their school which could be solved without money.
Students followed the following steps
•Promote
•Campaign
•Voting
•Evaluate
Promote
• In order to understand what a good school council is, the students took part in several games and activities in classes aiming to realize the importance of their role and the criteria on which they should choose their representatives.
Campaign• Students, who wanted
to nominate,wrote their manifestos and made speeches to persuade their audience.
Voting
• Students of all classed voted for their represenatives
• The school council would have 11 members and four deputies.
• Elections • Results
3rd December 2014
Evaluation
• The students were asked their opinion on the procedure and if they had enough time to prepare.
• Those who didn’t want to stand,were asked what had stopped them.
School Planning• Signing the contract of a
school council member.• Council meetings every
two weeks.• Preparation for the
school Christmas bazaar.• Donating the money
raised to local charity.• Games,competitions and
prizes on carnival day.
School Council Planning
• Recycling of paper and plastic.
• Organizing a drama team.
• Organizing the school library.
• Games,competitions and prizes on carnival day.
The biggest event: Carnival Day
We are proud of our first school council