Regents Park State School encourages all students to be active participants in school life, demonstrating a committment to Safety, Teamwork, Achievement and Respect with their peers.
During Year 5, students are supported by their Year 5 teachers, through the HASS studies of Government, to write a Student Leadership Speech in preparation for nomination, public speaking and voting to take on a Student Leadership Position for the following year.
A formal speech process is held in Term 4 each year where students wishing to nominate for a position can present their speech. Students in Year 5 and Year 4 vote for their chosen representative. Staff also have the opportunity to vote for the Student Leadership Team.
The successful School Captains and School Vice-Captains are introduced to the community and officially pinned at the end the same year, via a special invitation to the Year 6 Graduation and Awards Ceremony. An official Student Leadership Induction occurs in the following year for all successful nominees.
Student Leadership Positions are:
2 School Captains and 2 School Vice-Captains
Student Council Executive: Chair; Treasurer; Secretary
2 First Nations Champions
2 Music Captains
2 Information Technology (IT) Captains
2 Environmental Champions
2 Sports House Captains and 2 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.