Student Action Team

Student Action Team

SAT

The aim of the Student Action Team (SAT) is to promote the vision and Mission Statement of the school. It provides a means of expression of student voice and agency, enabling students to raise issues concerning their involvement in life of Rochester Primary School. The SAT provides a forum for the wider school community to consult a representative body of students. Activities that the SAT are likely to be engaged in include:

Weekly meetings at the designated meeting room with all required materials;

Providing student feedback to surveys for the school;

Coordinating the gathering and presentation of student opinion and ideas on key decisions within the school community;

Encouraging greater understanding and communication between students, staff, parents and the School Leadership Team;

Providing a forum for student debate;

Initiate and provide student leadership within the school’s sporting, social, environmental, cultural and fundraising programs.

Structure

The Rochester Primary School Student Action Team is a student elected representative council. Students from years Grade 3 – Grade 6 nominate each year to be their class representative.
Students can only be elected biannually in order to allow different students the opportunity to represent their grade level. Classroom teachers discuss with the students what they believe an SAT representative should do, and the expected behaviours required from nominees. The interested students then independently write a letter about why they would be the ideal candidate to represent their class.

SAT Objective: To represent the students of Rochester Primary School

SAT Role:
- Attend SAT meetings weekly or more when we have a lot of work to do
- Wear our badges with pride
- Be willing to use recess and lunch times to work on posters or fundraisers
- Come to each meeting ready to share ideas
- Listen to others
- Make good choices

Every child has the potential to be a leader given the right set of circumstances and environment.

It is important then to put children in situations where they are supported and give them opportunities to be resourceful so they develop their personal leadership capabilities. Expectation, combined with a structured program that gives training, opportunity and built in recognition has a powerful effect on all of us.

Resilience, Respect and Responsibility

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