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Minutes 15.06.17

June 15, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Agenda

Reporting on meeting

Lethaniel’s concerns

 

Apologies

Dewi- has an exam

Jamal- has to revise

 

Reporting on meetings

History: set up for Monday or Tuesday

Music is set up for Thursday breaktime

Geography has already taken place

 

Richard and Kian are not here to arrange maths.

 

Geography Report

Asked Ms O’Connor about her plans. Boys listed the topic names for new KS3 curriculum, topics include many countries across the world. She is going to try to add religions, urban change and how it affects religion. She will try to involve age, gender and sexuality by looking at prevalence of disease, death rates and working ages etc. Happy include terrorism and earning a living.

Miss was happy and pleased with what we had done.

 

Miss C will email a thank you letter.

 

Miss Critchley’s Science meeting with Eden, Casper, Ryan

 

Nethaniel Freddy, Adam to do maths.

 

History KC and Caleb.

 

Lethaniel’s Concerns

Numbers are too low- we need recruitment drive.

Assembly- YES! We can report back on the hard work of the team and all the changes we’ve promoted int he curriculum.

 

KC: we must celebrate though- our work and Mr Waugh’s work and all the teachers we’ve been speaking too have finally listened. PSHE will be a subject taught next year!

Pride

Sadly we didn’t get a place but KC still intends to take us for a party and picnic. More next week. She will bring letters.

Actions:

 

Keep going with meetings. Science, Maths, Music and History all booked in for next week.

Minutes 11th May

May 15, 2017 / / 3 Comments

Apologies: Dewi, Mathew

Agenda: planning for Curriculum meetings

The team spent thier penultimate session prepping to meet HODs about their curricula. Geography, Science, Maths, English, History all underway.

Plans for next week:

Finish our planning and assign teams to each department. Discuss how we approach teachers and when.

Minutes 27th April

May 4, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Apologies:

Mathew, Mr North

Agenda:

A diverse curriculum which promotes equality. We have already decided to team up with all HODs willing to help us build into thier curriculum moments which celebrate diversity.

Ms Critchley produced several copies of a document which contained points for discussion around how, why and with what we could improve subject curricula. We split into three groups and started to note our ideas so that we can approach relevant HODs with our ideas. Photos of these completed documents to follow!

 

 

 

Minutes 5th January

January 12, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Many members were missing today as we had a rooming issue. We were joined by a new member, Tyrese Flectcher who contributes to our discussion on how to ensure our cause is adequately represented in PSHE lessons.

Halal food

Mr North had to postpone a meeting due to illness so this is still I. Progress. Obai and Mr North are on this.

Ms C and Jamal discussed increasing the profile of equalities group at school but also teaming up with other schools perhaps through Lambeth youth council.

We discussed the need for better education about our causes and that pshe lessons should be better and include some of our work.

The meeting concluded abruptly due to new lining up procedures. We'”” plan better next week.

Minutes 12th January 2017

January 12, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Apologies

Mr North- he has an ear infection

Matthew- has a meeting

Caleb- private matter

Dewi- Jamal is sure he’s sorry but doesn’t actually know where he is

Mr North and Mr Bull

Discussion postponed until Mr North’s return

PSHE curriculum

Many memebrs who were misinformed about the location of last week’s meeting discussed what PSHE is. They concluded that they had not experience this at LNS.

Ms C proposed speaking to Mr Goldsmith about his plans for PSHE since he made some progress when Y9 had an assembly by Brook on sexting and the law this week.

Jamal is working on a PSHE curriculum with Lambeth Youth Council and would like us to help him understand what students need and want from this.

Next week we will name some topics we’d like to see included from our equalities group position. Obai proposed we help develop approaches to these topics too and the year sevens said we could plan tutor time lessons.

Ms C explained what Y9 have been up to and will share their Year plan with the group who also think Mr Goldmsith should see it.

We propose having Mr Goldmsith join us for a meeting when we are prepared to present our findings and requests

Actions

All- topics for page, proposed age group, resources ideas ready for next week

 

All- discuss page with friends to see what the rest of school wants and needs

Ms C and Jamal- meet to discuss helping out Lambeth youth council

 

Minutes 8th December

December 8, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Apologies

Mr North is unwell

Ms Lucking is doing art

Ms Dearden is in detention

Agenda

  • School Trips Funding
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Play on discrimination
  • Halal Food

Minutes

School Trips Funding

Meeting hasn’t yet taken place. Ms C will rearrange. Does it include trips to the theatre? Twelfth night. Dion will join the meeting because he’/ going on a trip with Mr Curran which he had to pay for. Aiming Tuesday lesson 3.

Disability Discrimination:

People refusing to sit next to an autistic student. Spam, retard, using special needs as an insult. Using the SENs someone has as an insult or telling them to go down a set when people get a question wrong. Paolo revealed a case of bullying of a boy who he knows has a condition or disability which people tease. Ms C will investigate the accusations here.

We discussed how this type of bullying could effect us. Lowers peoples confidence, boys getting quieter, feeling bullied, self confidence can be damaged very easily and shows in exams and in personality, it’s easier to believe negative things than positive things. Albion expressed his hope that he has made a difference to Y7 self confidence. Lethaniel would like to seek advice from Mr Durant on educating Mr Students. Paolo knows a lot about autism spectrum conditions as his mum works with students who have them and he’d like to educate or students about them.

We digressed here and moved onto bullying (particularly of year sevens) by older students.

Bullying from older students

Dion reflects that many of the kids in his year were bullied by older students from Y7 Y8 and Y9. Students lose confidence in the teacher capacity to do something about it when we don’t log things or make students feel like they aren’t important. Could we advise teachers on how to respond?

 

 

Minutes 24th November 2016

December 1, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Apologies

Ms Murphy (rolling apology until Christmas)

Ms Lucking

Agenda

  • Ms Dearden’s Resignation
    • Freddy Summarised Leon’s account of why Ms Dearden was resigning and his understanding of it
    • Leon explained that he felt it wasn’t fair which is why he brought it to the equalities group meeting. He wants posters or assemblies to send a message.
    • Ms Dearden explained that the reason for her resignation was that she felt the serious incident was dealt with inappropriately and not as seriously as Ms Dearden felt it needed to be taken.
    • Obai felt like the assemblies related to it were about attitude rather than condemning sexual harassment
    • Generally among the student members the feeling was that content of assemblies has been too vague
    • Several students worry about students protecting each other from consequences makes the schools culture worse
    • Some students expressed concern for female staff and all students
    • Things taking too long to be addressed and not repeating the messages consistently was Dewi’s concern
    • Ms Critchley expressed her feeling that it is not within the equalities group remit to deal with this incident directly but we can work on changing the school culture and attitude towards women and attitudes on physical boundaries in general. Mr North later seconded this when students felt passionately that they wanted to help.
    • Jamal has an essay on cat calling with some relevant statistics and will forward this to Ms Critchley for publication on the equalities group site. It will open peoples eyes and he feels the stats speak for themselves.
    • Ms Schuil feels like incidents of sexual harassment should be treated as harshly as theft. This needs to start with staff taking it seriously.
    • Albion proposed regular and repeated education on this issue and other issues.
    • Next week we will check how each of the equalities group roles can contribute to action here

We did not make it to further agenda points but Dewi did (hurriedly) call for action regarding an Assembly for Y9. Margaret would like boys input on instances of homophobic bullying.

  • Meeting with Mr Bull
  • Equalities Statement – Has been passed to Mr Durant by JN.
  • Y9 Assembly
  • Thabit’s Sexist Issue (Thabit was absent and so could not report on this.  JN will speak to Thabit about this issue).
  • School Trips Funding
  • Disability Discrimination

Minutes 13th October 2016

October 13, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Agenda

Apologies Matthew Searle and Ms Lucking

SIMS logs and meeting Mr Bull

Ms Wilberforce has not met with Mr Atherton, so the plan is now to meet with Mr Bull. Obai wil approach Ms Griffin and attempt to arrange a meeting.

Hair Issues – Ms Wilberforce has said that Mr Bull has not responded to her emails.

Alternative strategy regarding hari: we should invite Mr Bull to our meeting next week. Henry will do this.

Equalities Statement – Obai has made a comment on the proposed equality statement.  Students were told that they should comment on the blog last week or arrange a meeting with JN or KC.  This did not happen – JN and KC will be meeting.

Do ask Ms Critchley for a log in for the Equalities Group.

This is England – Jamal and Dewi met last week to discuss this campaign further.

Who will take over this project when FS goes on Maternity Leave?

Are there any proposed actions for next week? Chosen students to be in pictures and have a much more secure idea. Can we change the title of this project to ‘This is LNS’?

Motion passed – unanimous.

Roles for the group

Curriculum Development – Mr North & Freddie

Workshops – Proposal of Ms Lucking to take on this job

Further Recruitment of staff and students – all would be responsible for this.

Promotion of Ideas – Jamal & Ms Critchley

Promotion of Group

Events

Minutes 6th October 2016

October 5, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Agenda

Equalities Statement- KC on behalf of Mr Durant

Hair- Henry

Report back on Halal Food- Obai
Report back on SIMS Categories- KC
Review Incident Report- Henry (POSTPONED)

This is England- Dewi?

Women’s group and Guerrilla Girls- on behalf of Ms Lucking

Apologies

Mathew Searle DOCKS

Ms Lucking

Pauline Murphy

Minutes

Equalities Statement- KC on behalf of Mr Durant

Proposed we go away and read and comment on the post. Obai, Mr North, Mr Hall, Lethaniel will meet in the week too.

Why is the equalities group site private. KC will speak to Mr Waugh about changes we could make to make it public. 

Hair- Henry

Obai spoke to JLT is is arranging a meeting with Mr Bull. Henry will attend  it but not arrange it!

Max got let back into lessons the day after he write the piece and that was pleasing. No clear place where the hair policy is displayed. Ms Schuil- It is not an unnatural colour so it seems an overreaction. Mathew Q had blonde tips and no one said anything. How does hair affect your education? It’s with you all week. We are concerned with inconsitancy. Why isn’t it said to staff.

Leon will comment on Henry’s post with his thoughts too.

Report back on Halal Food- Obai

Will arrange meeting with Mr Waugh or KC since he has spoken to Dean and they will meet on the matter.

Report back on SIMS Categories- KC

Leadership want to reduce the number of categories. We don’t believe it will allow us to analyse the behaviour trends effectively. Student member would like to pursue a meeting with Mr Bull. We will invite Mr Bull next week if CW cannot meet with Mr Atherton. Dewi will liase with Mr Bull on this.

Review Incident Report- Henry POSTPONED as KC did not get the report done in time. 

This is England- Dewi and Ms Schuil

United Colours of Benetton Advert featuring very diverse looking people.  Schuil proposes a campaign. A propaganda campaign. Schuil will oversee the start of the campaign and Obai will help.

JOBS- reminder to recruit people for next week.

Minutes 29th September 2016

September 29, 2016 / / 1 Comment

Agenda

  • Counter Culture Workshop
  • Hair issues
  • Actual Jobs
  • Halal Food
  • SIMS Categories
  • Incident Report
  • “This is England” campaign

Apologies

  • Mathew- Docks
  • Dewi- Nautical Things

Ms Lucking

  1. Tate Workshop: Exhibit of Guerrilla/Gorrilla Girls workshop and Complaints Department Workshop where we can make posters about things which affect us. Names to Ms Lucking by tomorrow please. Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday afternoon proposed. Freddy, Obai already signed up
  2. We can all read Henry’s Essay on his Student Journal. Action: we will all read it by next week. It has now been put on his student journal and Mr Waugh just uploaded to to the Equalities site too.
  3. Actual Jobs in the Equalities Group. We offered SIMS to Henry. Equalities group recruitment (Miss Schuil).

Mr North and Freddy- Curriculum

Workshops for the school- Possibly Kate

Ms Schuil, Obai- recruitment of staff and students

Promotion of equalities group ideas- Mel Lucking

Events- Kickstarted by Schuil.

Henry has concerns about assigning roles when group numbers are so low. The group agreed to put this on the agenda for two week’s time when we have more numbers.

Next Week’s Agenda

  • Halal Food
  • SIMS Categories
  • Incident Report
  • “This is England” campaign