Captains Corner
Student Representative Council
We are the Year 7 and 8 Student Representative Council. Our names are Mookie, Nevaeh, Denzel and Armarni.
We meet with our school captains every second week to talk about improvements we can make to our school. We’ve put together a constitution and bring suggestions from our classmates to these meetings for the staff to discuss.
We also work with teachers to create our school wide positive behaviour matrix, and we share our ideas about what we want to learn.
A couple of weeks ago, we went on an excursion to the Leadership Summit with the school captains. One of the speakers, Lucy, shared how she created an app called “Her Help” to support young girls and remind them they’re not alone in the challenges they face. “It sounded like a great app and I was inspired,” Mookie.
“I loved hearing the speeches and meeting famous people and other student leaders from different schools. I enjoy the trips we get to go on.” Nevaeh
“I enjoyed meeting other students who are in leadership at different schools.” Mookie
By the SRC and Tash
Student Leader Profiles
The School Captains have been working on their leader profiles as part of their duties. There are some great insights below.
Name: Yalarna
Year Level: 8
Role: School Captain
1. Why did you want to become a student leader at our school? To make family proud.
2. Who is an Elder or role model in your community who inspires you? Heather Wilson.
3. What is your favourite way to celebrate your culture at school? Learning more about other tribe groups and languages.
4. What is one specific goal you have for our school this year? Focus and be more positive during school.
5. How do you want to help the younger students feel welcome and proud? Notice when they're feeling down.
6. What is your favourite subject or school activity, and why? HASS.
7. If you were Principal for one day, what is the first thing you would do? If it were to be one of the students birthdays, I'd like to take them out to get a milkshake.
8. Describe yourself in only three words: Fair, Organised and Firm.
Name: Tobias
Year Level: 8
Role: School Captain
1. Why did you want to become a student leader at our school? To make a change to MITS and make it a better place.
2. Who is an Elder or role model in your community who inspires you? My uncle Wando and Aunty Dotty.
3. What is your favourite way to celebrate your culture at school? Learning about culture and food and fishing and caring.
4. What is one specific goal you have for our school this year? Get through the year strong.
5. How do you want to help the younger students feel welcome and proud? Show them around, teach them the rules.
6. What is your favourite subject or school activity, and why? Music because it is fun and I love music.
7. What is a hobby or “secret skill” you have that most people don’t know about? I love riding and can ride in most places and I can ride for a long period of time.
8. If you were Principal for one day, what is the first thing you would do? Teach more culture and go on excursions, teach more of the students favourite subjects.
9. Describe yourself in only three words: Family person and funny.