Each year the student body of Sydney Boys High School are given the opportunity to apply for an important leadership position on the school Student Representative Council. Applications involve students vowing that they will commit to the position and work hard throughout the year to represent their peers. Names of applicants from each year are submitted to an online voting site on the SBHS SRC website. Voting is preferential and not compulsory. As a result, six students are elected from each year to represent their peer/year group. These students are required to join committees on the council and attend regular Friday lunchtime meetings. If students fulfil their role satisfactorily with the committees they are part of throughout the year, they are honoured with a badge and may purchase an SRC tie.

In Term 4 2009, the SRC elected an executive (President, Vice President and Secretary) to run the meetings and give direction in 2010. The students elected online in Term 1 as committee members from Years 7-12 have recently been announced at the Junior and Senior Assemblies and printed by Dr Jaggar in the High Notes.

For a second year, the SRC together with the leaders of the Community Service committee will be part of a training day at the Outterside centre March 19th lead by a group named Rising Generations. A thank-you to Mr Walker (Head of Welfare), Mr Coan (Leadership Co-ordinator), Mr Cipolla (Careers Advisor) and Ms Kaye (Community Service facilitator) for helping me make this day possible for the boys.

The SRC gives students the opportunity to learn about group work, running meetings, working on committees, responsibility, commitment and leadership. SRC members get the opportunity to go to regional and state SRC meetings as well as a range of leadership development and motivational seminars. It is a council voted in by the students, run by the students for the students of Sydney Boys High. Mrs Collignon, Teacher facilitator, works alongside the SRC to help with elections, excursions, meetings and getting ideas off the ground.

Mrs Collignon