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Student Council is a group of students who want to help their community. They help the school community, the neighbourhood community, and the world community. Student Council members are leaders in these communities. Students meet to create ideas and plan for fundraising activities as well as activities that promote school spirit. 


What the Student Council will do:

  • Meet on a regular basis
  • Learn about decision-making, how to hold meetings, understand different roles of officers, communication skills, minutes, agenda.
  • Liaise with their classmates – get feedback about the school to bring back to Management
  • Meet with the Principal to discuss matters that are important to the student body
  • Organise activities and events for the school
  • Have input into decisions made – e.g. fundraising, Health and Safety Statement, classroom resources.
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Student Council Election Week

November marks the start of a historic new beginning in St. Mary's National School with the formation of our very first Student Council. The Student Council will have representatives from 1st to 6th Classes with the voice of the pupil and Council led school change being at the top of their agenda. This week children in the classes are working had on electioneering, with speeches being written and delivered before polling day 

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on Friday. We are very excited about this new venture in the school and look forward to making great progress through active citizenship!

Student Councillors 2018 -2020

Meet Our Student Council:
 
  • Leo (2nd)
  • Lorna (2nd)
  • Hugo (3rd)
  • Julia (3rd)
  • Liam (4th)
    Eve (4th)

  • Sophie (4th)
  • Adam (4th)
  • Noah (5th)
  • Izabel (5th)
  • Molly (6th)

Leading Change in our School!


The Visit of Minister Shane Ross

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School Council Meeting: December 6/12/18

 We began by discussing the roles of the Student Council and what we stand for. 
  • We decided that we needed to appoint a chairperson, Secretary and meeting organiser.
  • The council voted and appointed Noah as the chairperson and Izabel as the secretary. 
  • The council established rules for the meeting which included:
1) No interruptions
2) Respect
3) Using a talking baton
4) Listening to others points of views
5) No Snap judgements 
6) Think of sensible ideas
  • We finished the meeting by noting that we needed to elect an organiser for the next student council meeting

Student Council Meeting With Architects: March 2019

The Student Council have been hard at work at creating a playground for Fernhill Park. St. Mary's have had the great privilege of being chosen to create, discuss and design the playground with Fernhill Architects. We spent 2 days creating numerous designs which hopefully will become part of the playground forever.

The Opening of the First Stage of Fernhill Playground

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