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  • Student Council
  • Posted: 11-05-2009 16:30:06 UTC By Tina-Maree Hooper
  • Hello.

    I thought you might be interested in my rights and responsibilities journey.

    We have just established a student council at my school. Each year level elected a representative and to develop our leadership capacity we have 2 for for year 5 and 2 for year 6. We have had one meeting to elect positions and to create a rationale. Our next meeting (tomorrow) is where I will introduce the students to rights and responsibilities, which is the next step of our CARE programme (Citizenship, Achievement, Responsibility and Effort). I am planning on using some of the photos and resources that I collected on my visit to Hampshire UK last year.

    I will let you know how it goes! I'd welcome any suggestions or comments from anyone on the forum..
    Bye for now,

    Tina-Maree
  • Re: Student Council
  • Posted: 18-05-2009 09:35:44 UTC By Marieann Keenan
  • Tina-Maree

    I was interested in your plan to incorporate HR into your Student Council. I work with our Student Council in a secondary school and we have been working on HR protocols through students and vertical form classes. Our students are starting to use the language but we haven't got enough visual or other reminders around the school to really reinforce the HR message.

    I was interested in how you came up with the CARE notion and your visit to Hampshire in the UK.

    Could you explain further?

    Thanks

    Marieann
  • Re: Re: Student Council
  • Posted: 19-05-2009 09:56:37 UTC By Ced Simpson
  • Some thoughts about reminders:
    - Ask art/graphic design/English classes to develop appropriate poster reminders
    - Ask Student Council organise appropriate labelling of facilities (sports area=rights to health & rest and leisure, library=right to information...)
    - acknowledge human rights significant days through daily/weekly school notices or assemblies.
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