PupilCouncilOnline

Keep your posts coming - we need to know

Mr MacKinnon here. We have taken a great interest in what you, the pupils, have been saying in the Pupil Council Online. Tonight I was at a meeting talking about some of the issues with cashless catering, for example, and I was able to use the information you provided to get them working on all the problems we've had.

Keep the comments coming. Keep on letting us know what needs improved and changed. Nearly 4000 visits to this part of mgsOnline have been made so far. Tell your friends about it and get them telling us EVERYTHING they think about school.

Many thanks to all MGS pupils.
S MacKinnon

Activities Days - What do YOU want to do?

At the end of May you will have the chance to take part in many activities that you wouldn't normally have a chance to do: surfing, climbing, recording a band... Have you got other suggestions, though, about things you would love to do? If so, comment now and teachers will do their best to make your dreams come true.

Pupil Poll: What do you think of Cashless Catering?

Pupil Council meeting: What should be discussed?

What should they be discussing in Wednesday's Pupil Council meeting? Everything that goes on here in Pupil Council Online does have an impact. Let us know NOW what the hottest topics are around MGS.

Also, do you fancy giving your strongest views on the mgsPodcast, the new online radio station in school? If so, contact Mr McIntosh now.

Ringing in the changes!

Well, the thing that seems to have caused the most upset seems to be the new bell, or is it a buzzer or a hum..?

What do you think of the latest work that's taken place around the school? Any points you think the builders should be fixing before they head off? Let us know by clicking comment below.

How does PupilCouncil Online work?

Read through the subjects on this site and click 'Comment' on any of them to make your view known. Any comments that are inappropriate or make references to specific individuals are likely to be removed (only a handful of comments have ever had to be removed!).

Many people have been asking recently for Mr Summers or one of the Depute Head Teachers to respond to comments made on this part of the mgsOnline site. Issues raised in the Pupil Council Online do make it onto the table at the actual Pupil Council, and Mr MacKinnon does respond to questions raised at this meeting. For example:

Getting healthy food into the canteen

Getting more choice of non-fizzy drinks, not just water, in the fending machines

Letting senior pupils wear variations from their school uniform of white shirts.

All the issues raised do get considered. We will now try to arrange for a 'live' feedback from Mr Summers and the Senior Management team on a regular basis. Keep logging on to find out more!

Exercising that brain... literally?

Many of you have expressed concern about your exams taking place in uniform and in the gym hall, instead of the usual assembly hall:

how would certain teachers and members of the senior management like to do their prelims in a P.E. hall? i don't think they would like it at all. be honest, it's bad and you wouldn't put up with it.
therefore, as seniors, we are putting our outrage across and in return told to "focus on academic achievement."
for once, listen to us please.

What do you think? Does it make a huge difference? Are exams only about revision or does the environment have an effect, too?

Feeling uniformly good about things?

Some interesting points have been made on other parts of the Pupil Council Online this month about uniform. Most have begun as senior pupils were told to wear uniform during S4 prelim exams last month. Also, this point from the Scarlet Pimpernel:

Why can't the teachers have a dress code??? It's not fair to be sent home by a teacher when they're wearing tracky bottoms and trainers!!! Maybe all the younger pupils would wear Uniform if all the teachers had to as well. The teachers always go on about prefects being the example to follow but surely teachers are as well! Why don't they practise what they preach and were a uniform! They all used to have to and now don't. So if they don't have to we shouldn't either!!!

What are your opinions on uniform? Should senior pupils have to wear it during examinations? Surely it's not all that bad? Let us know by clicking in your comments below.

School Clubs

The school concert is approaching.....Thursday 16th Dec! Why don't you join in?
Come along to choir after school on a Tuesday- until 4.30. It's great fun, no audition and everyone is very welcome.
Orchestra is well underway.... please come and join in, esp recorder players- after school on a Wednesday until 4.30. It's really good, you'll enjoy it so much.
Hope to see you there! x

New School Building

After a week of hard labour the school reopened this week with lots of new areas for pupils, staff and visitors.

What do you think of the new areas in your school?
Is there anything you think needs added straight away?
Is there anything you're less happy about?

Put your comments below.