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Student Council

Back Row (L-R): Nicole Ezeudo, Ms Claire Reilly, Callum McGuigan, Megan Griffith Keane, Adam Chan, Carla Van Der Laan,
James Crosfield, Ms Davina Trenier, Michelle Ezeudo
Front Row (L-R): Matthew Murphy, Matthew Gilmore, Sophie Reilly, Obinna Nzewi, Rebecca Cherry

Student Council

The Student Council is a group of twelve pupils who work would like to do. We came up with ideas such as free fruit
alongside Ms.Reilly and Ms.Trenier. We work together to provided by student council, served at lunch time to
improve the facilities of the school and make it a more promote healthy eating. We also organised a tea morning
enjoyable environment. The twelve students are elected for all years so they could come together, chat and
by their year, one day pupil and one boarder. We come socialize. As third years and sixth years don’t have P.E we
together as a group every two weeks to plan upcoming decided to give them a P.E class to improve mental health
events and discuss issues that need to be resolved. We and help to destress coming up towards exams.
refer back to our classmates and ask them if there is We arranged a tag rugby match between senior students
anything they would like us to change or introduce e.g. a and teachers at lunchtime on the 22nd of April. On the
new sports team.
day we will have an extended lunchbreak to mix with
Over the past year we have introduced a number of other students.
things in the school such as hot lunches for day pupils We are currently planning a 5k run to fundraise money
and athletics. We also got a water fountain put in place for new furniture for our common room and to make
for all pupils to use during the day; this was funded by an outdoor area for students to eat and relax. This will
last year’s student council. Before Christmas we sent out also benefit future generations of students. We hope to
sponsorship cards to all students to fundraise for new emulate the success of last year’s 5K which raised over
posture chairs and new tables. The posture chairs help us €1,000 and make this into an annual event.
to sit upright in class so we can focus better.
We will be working to resolve other issues occurring in
During the year student council organised wellbeing the school for the rest of the year.
week, we brainstormed ideas that we and our classmates

By Michelle Ezeudo and Rebecca Cherry

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