Sixth Form Prefect Body

The Prefect team form a vital part of life in the Sixth Form and of the whole school. Every January, Year 12 students apply to be prefects, and the new team then serve from Easter of Year 12 until Easter of Year 13. Below you can read a selection of some of the prefects summaries of their roles:

Charity Prefects
As Charity Events and Displays Prefects, it is our duty to take part in the organisation and preparation of any charity events. The event that was most fun was the Talent Show, where we auditioned any talented students and chose the best acts for the show. It was great fun to be involved in and feels like such an achievement as the show went fantastically. The ‘Displays’ part of our job involves creating notice boards to display various events, using photographs and writing captions. It is also our responsibility to keep the information board, about university Open Days, gap years and other opportunities, up to date, whilst being precise with the materials we use in our displays to help the recycling prefects.

Induction Pack – Coat Rack prefect role description

Hello! We are the Coat Rack – that is, we are the editors of the school’s student newspaper, available on line here.

As Coat Rack prefects, we attend the Year 7 reading club and maintain the school’s online newspaper – www.thecoatrack.net. At the end of last year, however, we created a paper edition to go on sale to the year 6s (who were about to start at Grey Coat the following September). Through doing this we managed to raise about £68 for the Vijay Foundation Trust, which supports girls in India who have been abandoned, sometimes at birth, by their parents.

As well as this, doing the Coat Rack has allowed us to work with a variety of people throughout and outside of the school – we interact with students of all ages, including those at the Reading and Creative Writing and Poetry clubs, as well as lazy sixth formers(!), but also, fortunately, in our last issue, we were lucky enough to publish an article from an actual artist, called Celia Pym.

Our current projects include uploading the next online edition and working collaboratively with the English department in a bid to boost the vocabulary of members of the Lower School through using the NGO Freerice.com.

Finally, running the Coat Rack is a good thing because it allows communication between all the awesome creative people, not just in terms of writing - people who are talented in any way.

New Students Prefects
Claire Harding & Natasha Macaulay

As New Students prefects we are in charge of helping new Students to settle down in the sixth form, helping to make the transition from year 11 to Year 12 that much bit easier. Over the past year we have organised, along with the 6^TH Form team, the Induction week (Freshers week) for the year 12’s at the beginning of the Academic year. This involved a day trip to Cambridge, which proved to be very successful with teachers and students alike,  and days of events which included a circus skills workshop.

Sixth formers are allocated one double or two single lessons (dependant on your options) a week.

During these times Sixth Form students can make appointments with Ms Heiskanen to be inducted on the use of machines in the Sixth Form Fitness Centre and a personal programme will be devised. Once qualified, Sixth Form students may use the Fitness Centre during Sixth Form P.E time and during free lessons (if the sports hall is free) with the permission of P.E staff: Ms Heiskanen, Ms Morrish, Ms Pickard. Sixth formers must sign in and out when using the Fitness Centre; the book is located in the St. Michael’s Fitness Centre.

1. Inter-School match/staff v Sixth Form - These will be organised depending on interest

2. Clubs (lunch time and after school);

3. Sixth Form students interested in assisting with a KS3 sports club are recommended to speak to Ms Heiskanen (Head of PE) for further information in September.
   
4. Community Sports Leader award will be offered. Details will be announced in September.

5. We currently have established boys’ football team and are now working towards creating an established girls’ basketball team so please let your interest be known to sport prefects.

My role is that of Senior Prefect in charge of events and charity. Through this role I help to organise events for not only the Sixth Form, but for the whole school. I aim to combine my two areas of responsibility, by creating events that not only benefit the school, but allow the school to contribute to charitable causes.  Furthermore, I believe that through the creation of the events I can contribute to an increasing sense of unity within the school and Sixth Form. The Bonfire party, for example, was a perfect way to welcome the new students to the school, and help them to integrate with the existing Grey Coat Student, both in Year 12 and 13.
Susannah Simms, Senior prefect of events and charity

Christian Union (CU) is a big part in our school - although not so well known it has a role in a lot of what we do as a whole school together. People from CU are involved in every school service we have and sometimes in assemblies. We read prayers or biblical extracts during services and sometimes do little skits. We have ran an assembly informing the school what we had been studying over the past few weeks. We meet on a Tuesday lunch time in the chapel and spend the time together discussing our faith. Outside speakers are sometimes brought in to give us a different perspective and a chance to ask questions that maybe we can’t answer as a group.  We also discuss large topics which are relevant today such as abortion, the death penalty, sex before marriage etc. These discussions have always been successful as it is a safe environment to express your views. The Christian Union is a great place to be as it is a real community which offers support and a place to share your faith, and we have fun while doing it.
Katie and Ellie