Written by: Year 3-4 Student Council Teachers
The Primary Student Council is a fantastic opportunity that provides students with the chance to develop their leadership skills, both within the group and across the school. Being a member of the Student Council helps you develop key skills that are important now and in the future. Some of those key skills are:
Confidence: Being trusted by your classmates to make good decisions;
Humility: Being able to make mistakes and learn from these;
Resilience: Learning from experience and using hard times as a way of embracing future challenges;
Communication: Being versatile in working with others and being open-minded. Being able to value the opinion of others and communicating in a positive way.
These are just some of the key skills necessary to become good leaders, which our Student Council members will have the opportunity to develop through this year.
Last year the Year 3 – 4 Student Council were lucky enough to be involved with hosting a competition for the design of new Helping Hand award certificates, designing and sharing Christmas cards to the YCIS community and supporting the Giving Tree and the Christmas tree lighting. On top of this, we started to think of new initiatives for improving the school community. These opportunities allowed the students to improve their communication and leadership skills as well as develop personal confidence and take responsibility for improving YCIS.
This year, the students appointed have shown that they are:
- Organised
- Prepared
- Responsible
- Good team players
- Want to improve leadership skills
- Have a passion to help others.
Last week, Students in Year 3 and 4 who were interested in joining Student Council delivered a variety of wonderful presentations,explaining why they wanted to be elected. We heard lots of innovative ideas about how Year 3 and 4 would support and develop the school, and each student showed us what would make them the perfect candidate for Student Council. After some very close voting, two students from each class were selected to represent their year level. The new Student Council will introduce themselves at our upcoming assembly.
We are really excited to begin our meetings and set in motion our plans for the upcoming year.