Today both students from KS3 (Lewis Peddie, Lindsey Hunneman and Martyn Still) and from KS4 (Corey Briffa, Dean Goodall, Nicol McMeekin, Sophie McShane and myself) along with Mrs Ballard attended a conference held at Wicksteed Park to consider what community means to us as a school.

We were also asked to bring an item to sum up our school community along with an item we could each bring to show what made us individually unique! So to represent our school community we brought a collage of pictures to show 'Ambition'.

To begin with, everyone was asked to draw/write about "10 things that makes you unique" on an A3 sheet of paper - which was stuck on the walls around us and then we circulated around the room to see if we shared anything in common with any of the other students.

Afterwards we were given questions to review the links we have with our community, thinking about what groups we have within school and outside of school, and what a member of the community would think of our school.

We were then put into groups, along with one student from each of the other schools. We were firstly set a task to see who could build the tallest free-standing structure out of six pieces of A3 paper, and the tiniest amount of sellotape.

When the task was over we had to think of questions we could ask someone who worked within the community to find more about their role and inspiration for doing so. Then to our surprise members who worked within the northamptonshire community sat at our tables and we had to move around the room interviewing them using the questions to find out more about them.

From our research we then had to as a group, think of ways that we can express our community and make a collage to present this. The collage presentation was in a form of a jigsaw puzzle, with every group having one piece of the puzzle each. Once we had finished our collage all of the pieces were fixed together to complete the jigsaw.

Finally, we evaluated the entire day and we were each presented a certificate by the Mayor of Wellingborough to congratulate us for our work and returned back to school!

Maisie McInnes

Hello! We're in Loughborough today, for an ICT conference. We are going to explain how technology has helped us to advance as a student council and connect with students, parents and any other concerned members of the public.

Nicole Devlin

Hello fellow students!
With mr york we discussed smoking and how we can help put a stop to it around school.
With Miss Ballard we decided that we need a Meeting with Mr Shearer before we can make any further choices.

This weeks discussion was very limited due to lack of attendees. As many of the year ten representatives were in Paris and the year eleven's had to be elsewhere it meant that we could not hold a full running meeting.

We have discussed some burning issues and personal suggestions we have thought of and we will be elaborating on this more in the next meeting.

- Nicole Devlin

The main areas for discussion this week were:

• Uniform (lower school and sixth form)
• Behaviour of students
• Use of music in lessons.

Uniform: This was discussed by all attendees, there were many advantages and disadvantages to having school uniform. There has been lots of discussion amoung students about blazers and business wear for the sixth form. Nothing has yet been confirmed and student concerns are being raised with Mrs Pendrill.

Behaviour: The council have discussed the behaviour of a small minority of KS4 students. There were lots of ideas put forward of how the student body can help.

Music: At present iPods are not used in lessons and the council feel that this should be open for discussion as it fits with learning styles. This is to be raised with Mrs Pendrill.

Nicole Devlin, Andrew Gray. 25th March 2009

We will be using this blog to write down what has been discussed in our meetings. every Wednesday, the KS4 student voice meet up to talk about how our school could be improved. In our meetings previously, we have been discussing, what could be done to improve the school toilet system. This is a subject we feel is very important. We have decided that change needs to happen, and action need to be taken, but first us as a student body need to prove that we can look after the toilets.

We will be talking about this more in tomorrow's meeting, and I will post more information as we discuss it

Nicole Devlin, 3/2/09