Student Leadership/Council

At CNCS, we firmly believe in the power of the student voice. We provide students with a number of different Leadership opportunities whilst they are at school, ranging from Head Boy and Head Girl to Student Council Tutor Representatives. We believe that it is imperative to give students a voice and to take their opinions and views on board, looking to change and improve things where we can.

Head Boy and Head Girl

Year 12 have the opportunity at the end of the academic year to apply for the role of Head Boy and Head Girl. This is the pinnacle of student leadership and the role comes with a detailed job description which both challenges and develops the leadership skills of those students selected. The schools current Senior Student Leadership for 2023-24 are:

Head Boy	Edwin Barry
Head Girl	Emma Jackson
Deputy head boy	Andrew McElroy
Deputy head girl	Margret Donzo

Students in Year 13 also have the opportunity to apply to be part of our senior student leadership team. The following students take these roles for 2023-24:

Welfare	Sport	Education & Inclusion	Chaplaincy	Social
Zuzanna Murdek	Aisling Devlin	Kaylah Albright Tchine	Caitlin Friel	Ryan Collins
Rutendo Muteliso	Hendry Davies	Adrien Jean	Ciar Jones	Jayden Zion
Olivia Brook	Karsten James	Konrad Zeno		Judith Masih
	Adam Jackson	Dino O'Hara		Clive Sandaramu
	Harry Solomon	Rishe Sekar		Genithi Sri Baskaran
				Hammad Kasar

 

School Prefects

The Prefect System is highly respected by our students and they wear their green ties with pride. They are easily identified by the school as they are distinguished by their green ties. Our Prefects are positive role models and help to promote the ethos of the school by supporting both staff and students in everyday tasks, events and initiatives. Our students are eligible to apply for these positions at the end of year 10, if they meet the criteria relating to attendance, punctuality and behaviour, and have the qualities needed to be successful in the role.

Student leadership opportunities

We understand the importance of student leadership at Cardinal Newman Catholic School. It helps to develop students' resilience, leadership, confidence and many more skills. Students have the opportunity to be involved in the following leadership opportunities.

Students in Year 7-11 have the opportunity to apply to become part of our junior student leadership team. Roles that they can apply for are:

1. Form monitor (16 per tutor group)
2. Student council representative (2 per tutor group)
3. Junior student leaders (2 per year group)
4. Subject ambassadors.

The junior student leaders are the main student leader in each year group, working alongside their head of year to shape and make change in their year group. Our junior student leaders for 2023-24 are:

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9	Year 10	Year 11
	Adeife Solanke	Jack Tutchner	Taylor Dickinson	Faye Taylor
Amara Gill	Lottie Cowley	Kateryna Khomytska	Raee Wandji	Excauce Maula

 

Futher student leadership opportunities at Cardinal Newman School 

	Description of opportunity
Year 7	Tutor roles (talking points leader, chaplaincy rep, charity rep, sports leader, standards rep, pastoral book monitor)  Student council representative  Student librarian  Student assembly  Faith in Action Diocesan Award
Year 8	Tutor roles (talking points leader, chaplaincy rep, charity rep, sports leader, standards rep, pastoral book monitor)  Student council representative  Student librarian  Anti-bullying ambassador  Student assembly  Faith in Action Diocesan Award
Year 9	Tutor roles (talking points leader, chaplaincy rep, charity rep, sports leader, standards rep, pastoral book monitor)  Student council representative  Student librarian  Reading mentor  Cultural Diversity group  Anti-bullying ambassador  Student assembly  Faith in Action Diocesan Award
Year 10	Tutor roles (talking points leader, chaplaincy rep, charity rep, sports leader, standards rep, pastoral book monitor)  Student council representative  Student librarian  Cultural Diversity group  Anti-bullying ambassador  Faith in Action Diocesan Award  Lourdes
Year 11	Tutor roles (talking points leader, chaplaincy rep, charity rep, sports leader, standards rep, pastoral book monitor)  Student council representative  Anti-bullying ambassador  Student Prefects  Prom Committee  Pope John Paul II Award Diocesan Award
Year 12	Student council representative  KS3 mentor  Sports leader/coach  Cultural Diversity group  Pope John Paul II Award Diocesan Award  Lourdes
Year 13	Student council representative  Head Boy and Head Girl  Pope John Paul II Award Diocesan Award

 

Student Council

The Student Council is an integral part of our school community, as developing the student voice is paramount to promoting change. The purpose of the Student council is to communicate their ideas and suggestions about a wide variety of issues. Pupils are encouraged to develop skills to help them communicate, think about important issues, express and justify opinions and contribute to discussions and debates. Minutes of the meetings are taken and shared with staff and students. A list of actions is drawn up and then students are informed of any decisions made via tutor discussions and E-Briefings.

As our Student Council is all about developing the student voice, students take part in an Election Campaign to democratically vote on their tutor’s representative. Students are encouraged to write speeches or make promotional videos and deliver their speeches to their tutors. Each individual student is then provided with a polling card, which they then take to the polling stations and cast their votes in ballot boxes.

Student Council representatives meet formally once a half term and discuss issues raised from their tutor groups, with the Headteacher and Governors. All information is fed back to tutor groups and actions are discussed. Not only do the representatives have formal meetings, with the Headteacher and Chair of Governors, but they lead on pastoral sessions across each half term. This is to encourage students to speak up and raise awareness of issues within school and make a real change to their time at Cardinal Newman. The minutes of each meeting can be found at the bottom of this page.

Our student council representatives for 2023-24 are:

7EHS

7RAB

7APT

7APP

7OLT

7HCL

7JPR

7CTN

7CBE

Natalie Mhembere

Hannie O'Meara-Duffy

Coragh Fitzpatrick-Harkin

Nevayah Jones

Wiktoria Tymora

Scarlett Funnell

Jennorshan Kirupaiseelan

Ellie-May Cliford-Tranter

Harmony Falayi

Michael Webber

George Taplin

Cormac Dooley

Kanish Uthayasankar

Connor Murphy

Cillian Walsh

Leo Faulkner

Tadiwa Kufahakutane

Ezra Nyamekye

8HSE

8SNL

8EWB

8LNN

8CRN

8FBH

8JMH

8EMY

8SDS

Finan O'Brien

Lottie Cowley

Caleb Sandhi

Mattan Fernandes

Emmanuel Ahaneku

Jenna Thaker

Precious Fashina

Vincent Chikopa

Maita Naymusamba

Isabella Aluko

Joshua Hicks

Willow Jacobs

Gracie Watts

Daniel Mpobi

Orla Cafferty

Padraig Gallagher

Niamh Rynne

Dexter Cosby

9TGN

9LMR

9LHN

9AKY

9RDS

9ABI

9JGD

9AHR

9MUD

Victoria Tamakloe

Pawel Petrosyan

Suren Piratheepan

Kevin Okeke

James Keenan

Francessca Poleszak

Cortez Jamal

Christiano Gill

Eve Rodgers

Levi Agbaje

Erris Herbert

Demi Lea Wilson

Kasey North

Sienna Morgan

Olivia Suchanska

Arunjit Singh

Harriet Debling

Alan Simmons

10NSI

10SWN

10NOE

10ABK

10EBG

10CHT

10CPE

10AMY

10CML

Suraby Piratheepan

Ella Pearman

Libby Higgins

Katie Corcoran

Aoibheen Walsh

Olivia Warner

Clinton Solomon

Lexie Hudson

Raee Wandji

Gerard Gallagher

Ronan Edgar

Brolin Okechukwu

Mason Druse

Sadie Woods

Lola Peapall

moregbee-Obasuyi

Oluwatobi Obitoyinbo

Rolyn Kwele

11NMI

11ASW

11RCY

11ECM

11SRO

11TRD

11JCG

11NML

11OCO

Gabriel Kontor

Esther Shosola

Lacey laws

Keira Nee

Exauce Malula

Andre Rahman

Arak Banach

Annabel Nyamekye

Thomas Health

Paul Makavoure

Oliwia Regula

Laycie Monger-Thompson

Sean Mpofu

Alyssa Ellis

Bisma  Kashif

David Kazembe

Alethea Kiasungea

P16EDE

P16MCN

P16RMN

P16SES

P16SGL

P16SHE

P16SON

Charlotte Kells

Judith Masih

Sonny Mcgovern

Akilan Rahulan

Julia Skowronska

Kavan Maloney

Patrick Ruddy

Nithirsan Varatharajan

Aoife Kavanagh

Ashpreet Dehal

Antonia Poleszak

Abba Oladele

Valerija Safanova

Duncan Moynihan

 

 

 

 

Eco Committee

The Eco-Committee is run and lead by like-minded students from each year group who take the lead in introducing, running and developing the Eco-Schools programme. Currently, the school are completing the steps towards achieving the green flag award. This award embarks the school on a meaningful path towards improving the environment in both the school and the local community while at the same time having a life-long positive impact on the lives of young people and their families. The Eco-Schools Green Flag is an internationally recognised award for excellence in environmental action and learning and the Eco-Committee are working extremely hard within the school to ensure Cardinal Newman achieves the award.

Years 7 and 8 are invited to help keep our school environment clean and tidy as Eco Champions. This role involves litter picking sessions and promoting environmentally friendly techniques to their peers! Our Eco Champions are excellent role models for their peers and wear their badges with pride.
 

Student Leadership Video