Student Council

The Role of Student Council To represent students before School’s Staff Board To be the spokesman of all the students in school To represent the school in relation with other Student Councils To promote Children’s Rights

Structure President Vicepresident from among the students Secretary A representative for each class (grades 4th- 8th) Representatives of teachers (Staff) A Co-ordinator Teacher

Main Responsabilities To approve of its own functioning regulations To establish and decides upon the set of activities to be developed by the Student Council To present the report on the activities held in the previous year To organize and support the activities suggested in the programme

A) International Contacts Participation in the international Reunion of Children Councils in Lamoura, France, April 200 Participation in the International Session of Scientific Communications for Children – Lugoj, Romania, October 2005

B) Humanitarian Activities Fund-raising for “Hope Telemarathon” Fund-raising for victims of natural calamities “Red Glasses Day”

The children wore glasses during breaks and throughout classes…

The collected funds made it possible for some financially disadvantaged children to go on several Council trips .

C) Involvement in the projects: a) Discipline Days in our school (students were on duty in the school corridors together with teachers) b) Spring Day in Europe (all kinds of activities connected to the adherence of Romania to the European Union)

c) Citizen - Identifying certain community issues (e.g.: domestic violence, homeless people etc.) - Seeking alternative solutions to a certain problem - Presenting the solution (by the implied group of children) - Developing a plan of action

d) Earth Week – organizing “The Green Days”

- Ecological activities in the nearby park in the schoolyard

- Organizing an exhibition of objects made of recyclable materials (“Greeen Spot”)

- Acting out a scene from “Little Green Riding Hood”, performed by the Student Council Theatre Group “Seven”

e) International Water Day - Organizing a photography contest and an exhibition on the topic “Water”

From all the organized activities within the Student Council two have become tradition: - Student Council Day and - Children’s symposium

Student Council Day Took place in collaboration with the volunteers from “Save the Children”...

and at the same time with launching the Comenius Multilateral School Partnership for an Active European Citizenship: The European Charter of Student Council…

or simply held in the form of funny games among the Council Members

The Children’s Symposium A complex activity that reached its 7th edition in 2009.

Throughout the seventh editions, the organizers had in view to get schoolmates to be aware of a series of general issues concerning children’s life and activities . Here are the titles of the last five editions:

The children and the European Union 2005

Who Saves the Earth? 2007

Say, NO to violence! 2008

Students’ involvement in School Life 2009

The themes of all the editions were suggested by children and the large number of participants (between 130 and 240) shows the students’ great interest in activities which provide them the opportunity to gather specific information, to voice their opinions and even to adopt a certain attitude towards the discussed issues.

The direct beneficiaries of the activities carried out within the Student Council are the students themselves, then the school and the local community.