Student Council Conference
On Thursday 19th October, King Edward VI Aston School hosted the first ever Student Council Conference event. Here, all nine King Edward Schools were invited to give presentations explaining the importance of their respective school councils, how their councils run and what they have achieved in the past few years.
The event started at 9:30am and ran till 3:00pm. Six representatives from our school: myself, Suraj Sanhi, Maryam Shafiq, David Akinfemiwa, Talbir Singh and Jack Griffiths attended the event representing our school to give a presentation. The purpose of the presentation was to highlight the impact of our school council’s hard work, hoping to inspire other schools to take onboard our actions and implement them into their own schools. Every presentation given by each school was unique, each school implementing different changes around their schools; ideas that would later on be discussed in an Action Plan activity later on in the day.
Just before the lunch break, myself, Maryam and Jack went up to present. Our presentation lasted approximately 15 minutes with a short Q&A session afterwards where other students were able to ask questions to gain a better understanding of the structure and efficiency of our council. Our presentation focused on our school council’s input to the Astroturf pitch on Baker St, Show My Homework, water fountains, new lockers and so on. King Edward VI Aston were fortunate enough to have the event sponsored by Subway, Domino’s and Morrison’s, allowing their lunch services to be catered for by Subway and Domino’s. The lunchtime break lasted an hour, allowing individuals to mingle and socialize with other schools.
Throughout the day, three discussions took place splitting everyone up so they were with students from other schools. A number of questions proposed by the main speaker enabled each individual in their groups to discuss possible answers to the proposed question e.g. “If your school had an unlimited amount of money, what would you buy?”
Finally, to end the day was the “Action Plan” activity where each school made a plan of what possible ideas could be proposed, taking onboard what other schools had said earlier in the day in their presentations.
Overall, the day was a success; socializing with others, watching presentations and taking into account other propositions from other schools. The vision of the event is for it to become an annual tradition, with different schools hosting each year, therefore formalizing an interaction between every council within the Schools of King Edward VI and incentivizing further achievement. An event like this is to motivate councils to push for greater changes so they have something impactful to report in the future.
Arran Bola
13BGE
