News from the School
CCHSG Student Voice
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Student Voice (right) have had to adapt to not having our face-to-face Friday meetings during registration, moving
instead to online Microsoft Teams meetings. All the same, we’ve been working to help with the running of the school, even in these very odd times.
Our biggest achievement this year is our rearrangement of the awards system, prompted by general dissatisfaction in upper years about not receiving merits or R awards. Unsurprisingly, when asked what they considered a suitable reward, the student body decided on food. We also decided to change the basis
awards are given on; instead of just rewarding academic achievement, we came up with the acronym AWARD, which stands for Academic achievement, Wider life in the community, Attendance, Respect, and Determination.
We also reassessed the student planner, mainly providing feedback on how often some of the extra pages are really used by students. We also decided on new formatting and cover art for next year.
There’s been ups and downs regarding lockdown. Unfortunately, like a lot of things, some of our plans for events and changes had to be put on hold. One of these ideas that we were still discussing was the possibility of a clothes swap for charity that upper years could perhaps participate in, which is obviously not possible now. However, student voice have been helping coordinate the uncharted territory of home-learning. We were also the first students to see what the reopened school looked like, and how the social distancing guidelines would be implemented. After our initial horror (“What?! No vending machine?!”) we decided how to present this information to the rest of the school, with a pre-recorded presentation and explanation from Mrs Daniels.
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Of course, the majority of our meeting time is spent discussing rather ordinary arrangements like hand dryers not working, clocks being late, or pegs in the changing rooms being broken. I can safely say that almost all of the matters raised with Student Voice have been mentioned in meetings and then addressed by the Site Team. Though rather uninteresting to say that we have put up new clocks and fixed the changing room benches, it does make daily life at CCHSG much easier and is greatly appreciated by my fellow students.
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Emily Chen, Year 12
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