Sydney Boys High Student Representative Council (SRC)
The Sydney Boys High SRC unit is a peer elected group which represents the students of Sydney Boys. Key issues concerning students’ welfare and concerns are debated and then put into motion if required. 2008 promises to be an active year with Nam and Ms Branigan leading the six leaders from each year. The SRC aims to:
- Take action to improve the quality of school life for all students through student leadership programs
- Promote public education and its values
- Foster future leaders through the program
- Allow the students to have a voice in the way the school functions through their SRC
- Act on the goals set by the SRC governing body
- And represent the school at the national SRC meetings
The SRC Constitution
1. NAME
a) The name of this organization is Sydney Boys High School Student Representative Council. Hereafter it will be referred to as the ‘SRC’, and Sydney Boys High School as ‘School’.
2. AIMS AND FUNCTIONS
a) The SRC seeks to above all represent efficiently and effectively the student body. To ensure that all requests by students for change, improvement or innovation be carried out to the best of the ability of all those representatives elected by the school.
b) It is the area of responsibility that encompasses all those fields great and small where students seek representation and action
c) We draw our limitations to the students’ interest and we find ourselves no longer typifying what it means to be student representatives.
d) Most essentially we are the “student’s voice” in all school’s bodies and decision making processes
3. COMPOSITION OF THE SRC
a) From years 7 to 8 one representative from each roll call class.
b) From years 9 to 12 a minimum of 6 to a maximum of 8 representatives from each grade
c) The Executive Committee will have the administrative role in the SRC. This group will be comprised of one representative elect from each grade except year 10 and 11. The president who will chair the executive committee and the SRC meetings will be a year 11 representative. The vice president of SRC and the executive committee will also be a year 11 representative. The secretary of SRC and the executive committee will be a year 10 representative. Therefore a total of 7 members will be elected from within the elected SRC representatives at the beginning of the year to determine the Executive Committee within the SRC
d) One District SRC representative will be elected from year 10. This representative will be responsible for himself attending all district SRC meetings and reporting back to the SRC.
e) A Student Advisor from the school staff will act as mentor and supervisor of SRC meetings and proceedings. The Student Advisor will have no voting power.
4. ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES
a) The election process for years 7 to 8 will be a majority vote; one representative will be elected from each roll call class
b) Students from years 9 to 12 wishing to nominate themselves as potential SRC candidates may collect, complete and hand in their nomination forms before the proposed date of election. The nomination form will require the students to:
- outline the changes he intends to lobby for as a representative
- outline his attributes, character that would make him a suitable SRC representative
- obtain a signature of both year advisor and another teacher
- produce his own signature on the nomination form
c) The election process for years 9 to 12 will be a preferential election. If there are more than 6 students who are willing to nominate themselves as SRC candidates, upon the approval of the year advisor, SRC teacher-advisor and the principal a preferential election will be conducted. From this election the top 6 to 8 students with the most votes will be elected as SRC representatives.
d) The list of successful SRC candidates will be published and announced to the school through the HIGH NOTES within a week of the election (process).
e) If a student wishes to be a member of the SRC but was not elected by either his roll class or the students of his grade, he may attend the meetings but will not be allowed voting power.
5. MEETINGS
a) There will be a combined SRC meeting every two weeks, at a place and time designated and announced by the secretary. All SRC members will be required to attend the meeting. Those who are not present at the meeting, a total of three times will be asked to leave the SRC
b) In the case of absence, a note must be handed in to the secretary detailing the reason for absences confirmed by a parent signature.
c) In the week that SRC does not have a collective meeting of all the committees and its representatives, each committee will have a meeting of their own. The time and place of the committee meetings will be organized and announced to each committee member by the elected “Chair” of each committee
d) The President of SRC will act as chair-person over the fortnightly SRC meetings; assisted by the Vice-President and Secretary.
e) The meeting will be conducted in the following order:
- The President declares the meeting open
- Today’s Agenda
- Minutes from the previous meeting read, discussed and if necessary altered
- Motions to be voted on from the previous meeting
- General Business, priority given to the items listed on the agenda
- Other issues to be presented by committees
f) The President may change the proceedings of the meeting at his discretion
g) Any motion that is brought up during the meeting and seconded must be voted upon by all the representatives.
6. COMMITTEES
a) All SRC members will be obliged to join one committee within the SRC. The SRC is free to form committees that are constructed to deal with specific issues as it sees fit. The committees must have a minimum of three representatives from the SRC. The committees are not restricted purely to the SRC but are open to the students of the school who wish to participate and help out in SRC operations and projects within the school.
b) By deciding to establish a new committee within the SRC, the representatives must decide:
- The purpose and mission of the committee
- The period over which the committee will reside; temporary, permanent.
- The number of students and SRC members to be appointed into the committee
- The powers of the committee
c) As the SRC sees fit, a temporary committee may be dissolved at any time by the Executive Committee. A permanent committee may be dissolved by a two-thirds majority vote from the SRC
d) Each committee will be required to produce a report of progress and meeting minutes that is to be handed to the secretary on the day of the combined SRC meeting.
e) Each committee must elect one SRC representative from the committee to briefly report to the whole SRC of the progress and news.
f) The vice president will be required to monitor all the committees on progress and accomplishments.
7. RULES OF DEBATE
a) The President will officially open and close the meeting.
b) Any member may express their opinion, as long as it is done democratically and politely
c) A member wishing for the SRC to vote on a matter, he must announce the phrase “I call for a vote on the matter”. In response, the President calls for a show of hands, a majority will make the matter legitimate and the President will declare “The motion to ________ has been moved”. However if majority is not found, the matter will be defeated.
d) If the number of votes for or against a particular motion is equal, the vote is lost.
e) If any representative is disruptive and rude, he may be issued a warning by the student-advisor. If however he is caught the second time, he may be asked to leave the meeting
f) The Secretary is responsible for recording all movements throughout the meeting; whether the motions are defeated, passed or differed.
g) No member of staff or other person who is not an SRC representative has voting power.
8. AMENDMENTS
a) If any part of the SRC Constitution needs to be changed or added to, a vote should be taken, in which a majority vote will make the change or addition legitimate.
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