Over the past few months, Mrs Stanley and Ms Bickerstaffe have joined The Top 7 (Head Prefect, Deputy Head Prefect and House Captains) during our weekly meetings to ask for suggestions and support on issues needing to be resolved around the school.
Ms Bickerstaffe often says that the prefects, especially the Top 7, are “the connection or the bridge between the staff and the students.” As a House Captain, I can raise issues or concerns (whether my own or from other students) and get advice or assistance from both Mrs Stanley and Ms Bickerstaffe. It’s a way of being a student voice for students across the school.
Some issues around the school may not be obvious to staff, but students notice them, so our meetings are a great chance to bring these things up.
Some time ago, the PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) generously gifted the school some money.
One of the things we considered together was how to use this PTA money. Whatever we chose needed to benefit the whole school and all the students. As prefects we collaborated with other students from different year levels to come up with ideas for the money and unanimously decided between the seven of us that the money should go towards cold and filtered water fountains around the school that all students can use.
By Wairau House Captain, Leah Kim