Regents Park State School encourages all students to be active participants in school life, demonstrating the school’s values of Safety, Teamwork, Achievement and Respect in their interactions with peers and the wider school community.
During Year 5, students are supported by their teachers through their HASS studies of Government and Democracy to develop and write a Student Leadership Speech. This process prepares students for nomination, public speaking and voting as they seek to take on a Student Leadership Position for the following year.
A formal Student Leadership Speech process is held in Term 4 each year. Students wishing to nominate for a leadership position have the opportunity to present their speech to their peers. Students in Years 4 and 5 then vote for their preferred representatives. Staff also have the opportunity to vote as part of the selection process for the Student Leadership Team.
The successful School Captains and School Vice-Captains are introduced to the school community and formally presented with their leadership badges at the end of the year during the Year 6 Graduation and Awards Ceremony. An official Student Leadership Induction is held in the following year to formally welcome and recognise all successful student leaders.
Student Leadership Positions are:
Two School Captains and Two School Vice-Captains
Student Council Executive: Chair; Treasurer; Secretary
Two First Nations Champions
Two Music Captains
Two Information Technology (IT) Captains
Two Environmental Champions
Two Sports House Captains and Two Sports House Vice-Captains per house
Our Sports Houses are named after the STAR Constellations of the Southern Cross:
Alpha House - named after Alpha Crucis (Acrux)
Beta House - named after Beta Crucis (Becrux)
Gamma House - named after Gamma Crucis (Gacrux)
Student Council:
The Student Council is run by the Student Council Executive and comprises of all of the Student Leadership Members.
Students in Year 3 - Year 5 are also nominated term by term to join the Student Council through a class election process. These Student Council members are pinned at a special award assembly each term.
Students in Prep - Year 2 are also nominated term by term to be Class Captains through a class election process. Students Council Members will visit the Class Captains to hear their student voice in decisions for the school.
The Student Council meets four times per term with the Year 6 teachers and Principal to discuss Student Voice in the operations of the School.