A GROUP of young leaders have combined forces to represent their Reidy Park Primary School peers.
The newly-selected school leaders have large plans for the new year, with a number of ideas already in discussion.
2019 female school captain Amity said she could not believe she was selected for the role.
“I have been involved in the student representative council (SRC) for four consecutive years now and have always looked to be a school captain,” she said.
“I just wanted to be one of those people and put my application in to give it a go.
“When I found out I got through I was shocked and happy.”
2019 male school captain Mackye said he always wanted to be an inspiring role model for both young and old students.
“I have been at Reidy Park Primary School since reception and have been part of the SRC twice,” he said.
“There was a couple of other people I thought would get it over me but I just hoped I would be picked.
“Personally I would like to see some more hands-on learning involvement in the classroom and some outside class activities.”
As a team, the 2019 SRC said they can not wait to combine their skills and bounce plans off one another.
“I think we are very excited to host school assemblies and organise school events,” Year 7 student leader Lara said.
“At the moment we have plans for Clean Up Australia Day and Harmony Day, but hope to organise more.
“Our main aim is to involve more of the school community and gain higher participation from students.”
Lara said she is also excited to be involved in the Anzac Day dawn service.
“We all look forward to going as a group and representing the school,” she said.
“We just want to be good roll models for students.”
Year 7 student leader Bree said the team had planned more fundraisers with several falling at the end of the school year.
“We want to raise more funds through school events for the community,” she said.
“I think a lot of them will be larger than last year with majority held in Term 3 and 4.
“Usually we are only allowed to do two fundraisers each term but we have stretched the boundaries to fit more in.”
Bree said each week there was a structured schedule the leaders have to follow.
“Every week there is a long process involving weekly meetings every Thursday, checklists, rosters and schedules which all have to completed,” she said.
“We just hope everything runs smoothly.”
Year 7 student leader Taylor said the team had thought about elaborating on past fundraising ideas.
“We have held pyjama day in the past raising money for the Mount Gambier Hospital,” Taylor said.
“We also made cards to gift the patients which was a good way of making someone’s day.
“I hope we can try these ideas again.”
Year 7 student leader Leila said everything the group achieves will be revisted at the end of the year.
“We will get to teach the new student leaders the skills we learnt during the year,” she said.
“We had this experience last year and it was very handy.”
School student leader coordinator Renae Perryman said the school had high expectations of the leadership team.
“They will now lead our school for the better so we want to make sure they live out the school values of care, courage and respect,” she said.
“As the leaders were peer selected we believe they are already roll models for students.
“The process is quite stressful for both the staff and students but we are all excited to see what they can do.”
