Student Parliament
The Student Parliament will be the main vehicle for student feedback and student voice across the CLF. It will enhance the work of the Student Councils and Student Voice groups in the individual schools. The Parliament meets five times per year.
It will operate in a similar way to Westminster! Each year group from year 7 to 11 in each Academy will have an elected member of parliament and each will be partnered with a post 16 student or “parliament buddy”. The MPs will bring ideas to the parliament and take discussion points back to their year groups. There will be a student advocate councillor on each Academy Council to support this process.
The terms of reference of the parliament are focused on the development of projects that will benefit young people in Bristol, raise funds for local, national and international charities and plan and deliver community based projects with pre-school and primary age children and older community members.
The first project is “A day in the Life” where students will be working in threes to experience life in the other Academies as well as show casing the good that they see in their own Academy. The result will be a report that they will take back into their own Academy via the Academy council and ultimately feed back to the senior leadership team.
Our second project is in the planning stages and we will work with Annie Hudson – Director of Children’s Services for Bristol, to help create the ‘Vision for Education in Bristol’.
The student parliament will be a very real opportunity for students from all three Academies to play a vital role in developing the work that we do.
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See also: Student Development page
