The Student Voice: You Said We Did Week 3 – 5 

Thank you again to all of you who are using The Student Voice to tell us about your experiences at school. We have seen a real increase in use in the last three weeks and this has been brilliant as we are building a picture of areas of concern and issues which we can hopefully easily resolve to help make school safer and happier. Do keep them coming! 

Below are outlined key themes and actions taken/planned: 

  • Toilets 

Toilets have come up again and again as a space where people feel unsafe due to vaping, people in big groups, and older pupils eating lunch there etc. This issue is on the agenda for Pupil Action Committee and School Councils to consider how we might make toilets a safer space, perhaps through pupil monitors as well as increasing CCTV near toilet areas and having no door or glass doors on the front entrance so staff can see in more easily. I look forward to hearing your feedback through these channels.

  • Assembly and Chapel length 

Many thanks for feeding back on this. We are aware that both sometimes overrun and have been clear with staff that timings need to improve next term (including my own!).  

  • Gender in Sport 

Many thanks to those pupils who raised an issue with gender in Inter-Form netball. This was a mistake, but it absolutely shouldn’t have happened and how it did was looked into by the SpEx department to ensure that this doesn’t happen in future. As a school, we are committed to promoting equal opportunity to sports for pupils of all genders, so please co continue to feedback about this area.  

  • Heating and Sustainability 

The really good point was raised about heating being on a couple of weeks ago when it was very warm still outside. Thanks to the alert, the system was overridden and the heating was turned off immediately.  

  • Charity 

Thanks to the person who raised the importance of the Pakistan floods as a charitable cause and awareness issue. Hopefully the charity busking this week which has been dedicated to this cause will have helped garner support and raise awareness through discussion.