Student Congress 2019
On Friday 1st November we got to attend the Student Congress in Stirling to represent the student’s voice for Ngunnawal Primary. Primary, High School and College students meet in the main hall for an introduction. We were introduced to this year’s topic which was ‘The Environment’. A visiting scientist Dr Sophie Lewis (Scientist of the Year 2019) spoke about what we can do to help the environment. Dr Lewis discussed her journey into the area of Science and went into detail about her passion of sustainability.
We broke up into small groups and completed 5 different activities. These activities included;
- Using sticky notes to define sustainability and what it looks like.
- A discussion around what schools can do to save the trees.
- Using a map, we plotted areas where bad things have happened to the environment.
- We had a template of a tree and questions we needed to answer. We wrote in the branches of the trees. The questions looked at what we are doing at school to help the environment.
- We looked at a big question ‘What could schools do that helps the environment now and, in the future,’ we wrote our responses in speech bubbles.
Morning tea and lunch was provided it was delicious, during this time we spoke with other students from different schools.
After lunch students nominated to be part of the student congress. These students gave a speech as to why they would be good for the role. We voted and 15-20 students were elected to be in the student congress.
At the end of the day we watched a funny environmental video and listened to an inspiring speech about what we can do within our school and as a community to assist our environment so it can be enjoyed by generations to come.
We had a really great day and meet a lot of other children from different schools, we discussed what they are currently doing within their school for the environment and what things they would like to see implemented or changed.
We now have lots of exciting new things we would like to discuss and strategies to implement within the school.
Your Year 6 representatives,
Tyler and Dalila