Junior School Council 

The school year has started and one of the first routines to be set into place is the election of the classroom representatives on the Junior School Council.

In the past this has only involved students in Grades 3 to 6. The exciting news this year is that each class from Foundation to Grade 6 will have Junior School Representatives. It has also been decided that each class will have 4 representatives. Two of the elected JSC Reps will be involved in Terms 1 and 2; then the other 2 JSC Reps will be involved in Terms 3 and 4.

The election process will begin next week. This involves students nominating themselves to be a classroom candidate and then, they will need to prepare a short speech as to why they should be considered to be one of the 4 JSC Representatives. After the speeches have all been held, each student will vote, making their own decisions, via a secret ballot.

The process will take a week and a half and the 2021 JSC Representatives will be announced at Assembly on Thursday 18th February.

Each classroom teacher will facilitate the process and will inform the students about what the JSC Rep will be involved in, the number of meetings they will need to attend at lunchtimes and reinforce that they need to demonstrate behaviour that is consistent and aligned with the schools core values of Care, Learn and Share.

Examples of events that the JSC Reps will be involved in are communicating and promoting whole school social service days as well as help coordinate whole school key education events like Harmony Day and NAIDOC Week. JSC Reps will also be good citizens in the school, demonstrating exemplary behaviour. They are role models for playing respectfully in the yard, they show empathy for others, they share and they are kind. 

Hopefully your child comes home excited about wanting to be a JSC Representative for their class this year. It will be a great year and many events have been pencilled in the calendar!

If they are excited, encourage them to have a go! If they are successfully elected by their class, fabulous! If they aren’t, we are sure they have learned a lot in the process and we look forward to them putting their hand up again in 2022.

Ray Owens and Julie Tainsh