BISAK Primary Student Council

The Purpose of the Primary Student Council
We, the children in the Primary School, want to make a difference in school.  The School Council will help us to do that.  We will involve all the children in the school by using their ideas.  We can help the adults to make the school even better than it is.  This constitution will help us to do that successfully.
 
The Primary Student Council

• Every September each class will vote for a class member to represent the class in the Council meetings.
• The Council will meet every 2 weeks (unless the business is not finished and we meet the following week, then 2 weeks after that).
• There will be a chairperson to lead the meeting and a secretary to write the minutes
• The secretary will send out the agenda before the meeting
• The Council will decide at the end of each meeting what they will discuss the next meeting.
• When we vote on an idea then the majority vote wins.
• The Chair and secretary of the meetings will rotate between Year 5 and Year 6 members.  (Younger members will be encouraged to take over when they feel confident.)

Rules of the Council

• All members of the Council will cooperate with each other
• We will take turns so that every class can give their ideas.
• All the members of the Council will get involved and feel part of the Council team .
• We will share our ideas and listen to each other.
• We will communicate our ideas and have conversations with our class mates.
• We will represent our class honestly and be polite and truthful.
• We will always bring ideas to the meetings.
• The ideas we bring will be our classes’ ideas not just our own.
• We will take action when we can.
• The secretary will write up the minutes and give a copy to the members of the Council.
   

Reporting Council Business

• Council members will report back to their classes.
• A council member will report the latest Council business in Assembly.
• School Council business will be reported in the BISAK weekly newsletter.
• The minutes of the meetings will be published on a School Council board.