The student council in BBETNS was set up in 2021.

Hello, we are the student council. We will be telling you about the student council in BBETNS.

What is the student council? 

The student council is a group of students who help to  make the school a better place. We get ideas from our classes and when we go to the meetings we bring the ideas we gathered! The aim of the student council is to unite the students in working together with the Principal, staff and the Board of Management!

How were we elected as student council? 

Around the beginning of October we hold an election week. People get elected to the student council by making  posters, doing speeches [what I did]  and, partner up with other candidates.

How does the voting work?

Everyone gets a ballet card with the names of the candidates running for election. Everyone can cast two votes but you can’t vote for the same person twice. The votes are counted and the top two people are elected for the student council for that year. If you were elected for student council last year you can’t run for it again the following year.

What does the student council do?

The student council takes on different projects every year.

Every year the student council organises the giving tree. This is  a tree in the entrance of our school, where people could leave gifts under. We hung up tinsel with tags on them. There were ages on the tags .People would take a tag with the age and buy a gift for that selected age. All the presents got sent to a charity called St. Vincent De Paul and were given to families around our community. 

We set up an initiative called the student council postbox! The aim of the student council postbox was to hear  the fabulous ideas that might not be heard without it. We read these ideas at a meeting  and choose our projects for the year.

Now think to yourself when you go out to the yard and wonder… Who thought of the buddy bench? That was our doing! What about the student council postbox? That was also our doing! You name it! We have thought about it,decided on it,and  made it a real thing! Thank you all for reading this article! 

If you have an idea or suggestion for making our school an even better place, go to your student council representative or post your sticky note in your post box. 

Yours Sincerely… 

THE STUDENT COUNCIL!