Our Pastoral Care and Behaviour Management
Student Leadership
A significant mechanism to ensure student leadership at Marist College is the committee known as the Student Representative Council. Heads of House and the College Leadership Team attend these regular meetings to ascertain student opinions on various issues and to facilitate the organizing of various annual activities e.g. fundraising, the Marist Race Day and House Sports.
Heads of House help facilitate the Student Representative Council which meets approximately 2 or 3 times a term.
Student Leadership Positions
Heads of House help facilitate the Student Representative Council which meets approximately 2 or 3 times a term.
Student Leadership Positions
Student Representative Council
The SRC aims to:
Student Council Constitution
The Student Council is an elected body of students whose aims are as follows:
(a) to represent students’ views in discussion with the college administration and the P & F Association;
(b) to work for improved educational opportunities and facilities at Marist College;
(c) to organise educational, social and recreational activities for students;
(d) to raise funds to achieve the above;
(e) to provide members with experience in leadership, meeting procedure and communication.
Membership
The Student Representative Council (SRC) is designed to represent the views of the total student body and will consist of:
College Captains and College Vice-captains, House Captains and House Vice-captains, Home Room Representatives, Heads of House, and the College Leadership Team.
The SRC aims to:
- Be an organisational body to attend to College and House matters
- Provide a forum for students
- Help solve problems in our College
- Promote better communication
- Foster College spirit
- Create interest and encourage community involvement
Student Council Constitution
The Student Council is an elected body of students whose aims are as follows:
(a) to represent students’ views in discussion with the college administration and the P & F Association;
(b) to work for improved educational opportunities and facilities at Marist College;
(c) to organise educational, social and recreational activities for students;
(d) to raise funds to achieve the above;
(e) to provide members with experience in leadership, meeting procedure and communication.
Membership
The Student Representative Council (SRC) is designed to represent the views of the total student body and will consist of:
College Captains and College Vice-captains, House Captains and House Vice-captains, Home Room Representatives, Heads of House, and the College Leadership Team.
‘The spirit of a Brother’s school ought to be family spirit. Now, in a good family, a well-run family, sentiments of respect, love and mutual trust predominate, and not fear of punishments’
(Life of Champagnat)
‘Discipline in the Marist tradition – to be worthwhile, they (punishments) should only be used rarely and with a great deal of discretion. The first duty of teachers in maintaining discipline is therefore to anticipate by means of watchfulness and irreproachable conduct on their own part, breaches of rules, and lapses in behaviour. The pupils are seldom themselves fully to blame. Teachers are to maintain their own equanimity, to be always composed and at the same time to have a prepossessing appearance. What soils everything in school is a fickle teacher, who is sometimes joyful and other times sad, whose expectations and oversights vary from one moment to the next. Teachers should give students advice when required, to teach them their lessons in a benevolent way to reproach them gently and firmly, never provoking them beyond endurance when they are obviously in bad humour or ready to flare up, and never putting together in one group, children who would be unable to keep themselves from chattering’
(Marist Teachers’ Guide, 1853)
(Life of Champagnat)
‘Discipline in the Marist tradition – to be worthwhile, they (punishments) should only be used rarely and with a great deal of discretion. The first duty of teachers in maintaining discipline is therefore to anticipate by means of watchfulness and irreproachable conduct on their own part, breaches of rules, and lapses in behaviour. The pupils are seldom themselves fully to blame. Teachers are to maintain their own equanimity, to be always composed and at the same time to have a prepossessing appearance. What soils everything in school is a fickle teacher, who is sometimes joyful and other times sad, whose expectations and oversights vary from one moment to the next. Teachers should give students advice when required, to teach them their lessons in a benevolent way to reproach them gently and firmly, never provoking them beyond endurance when they are obviously in bad humour or ready to flare up, and never putting together in one group, children who would be unable to keep themselves from chattering’
(Marist Teachers’ Guide, 1853)