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Student Council
Student Council Members 2024 -2025
Student Council Members 2024 -2025
Background
At St Paul’s we recognise the importance of knowing how our students are experiencing life here at school, so that we do what we can to preserve the parts of school life that are working well and, where possible, make changes to address areas which require improvement.
We check in with students through regular surveys, for example, as that gives us a clear general impression across a year group. Each year group also has its Student Council representatives and they play an invaluable role here at school.
The Student Council has been having a very busy year as they provided invaluable assistance at our schools 60th anniversary celebration and on our annual Open Night. More recently they were an exceptional help to Mr Carr as they supported him in the organisation of his annual Christmas Quiz. Very soon they will be active again as our school show will take place during the final week of this half-term.
We would like to thank them very sincerely for all they have done so far this year and wish them all the best for the remainder of the year. In recent years our Student Council has been supported in their work by Ms Monaghan, and we are very grateful to her for the time and care she takes with this important group in our school community.
Photo credit: Rynes Walker (past pupil of St Paul’s Secondary School)
St Paul’s Secondary School strongly promotes leadership and student voice. The Student Council is one such example of this in our school.
The Student Council is made up of three representatives from each year group together with the Student Council liaison teacher Ms Monaghan.
The qualities of a class representative are very important when electing a council member and we strongly believe our students uphold these qualities. They include:
- Responsible and reliable
- Punctual
- Trustworthy
- Good listener
- Able to relate well to the whole class
- Articulate
- Understand that confidentiality of issues is important
- Able and willing to take on a leadership role in the school
- Influential in upholding rules and standards in the school
- Having the interests of the whole school at heart
- Proud of his/her school
- Well presented in uniform
The Student Council have contributed to both the school community and the wider community of Oughterard. Within the school they are responsible for reviewing school policies, attending open night where they carry out tours to prospective students, organising and running initiatives such as mental health week, wellness week and a yoga wellness day.
Over the past number of years, the Student Council has run a St. Vincent de Paul Christmas Food Drive. It was an event which encouraged students to consider those people for whom Christmas may be a very difficult time, and to work together with the wider school community to help those people. Through their spirited enthusiasm, the council members promoted the event in a variety of effective ways, including making a promotional video which was shown to the entire student body, and also posted on the St. Paul’s Facebook page. This drummed up a huge amount of support within the school community and beyond, and we managed to donate an astounding amount of food to the SVP Food Appeal.
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