Student leaders taking charge

Contributed by Colleen Clothier

BEERWAH State School’s student council have been very busy over the last term with many projects coming to fruition.

Student leadership places an important role in school life because it promotes student agency and gives children an opportunity to develop communication, teamwork and leadership skills.

Over a period of four weeks, student council have undertaken a project to revitalise the outdoor seating at the school. They decided to paint the outdoor chairs and table in our undercover areas in the colours of our four school houses.

Many hours of work from the students went into this project and the results are very uplifting.

Student council have also decided to hold a Rubik’s Cube club!

This is on Monday and Friday in the library at second break.

We have students with a range of understanding (including those at the very start like Mr Deady!).

We see some excellent peer tutoring occurring as our Rubik’s ‘experts’ help to explain and demonstrate the steps to our beginners.  A ‘competition’ will be held on the Monday and Friday lunchtimes of week eight.