School Councils UK Resources – Agenda and Minutes Template

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Delete the text inlight blueand put in the real information for your meeting to create anagenda. To create yourminutesyou should first remove the names of any one who could not come from the list below. Next you should deletethe text ingreenand replace it with the real information from your meeting.

If you need to add another line:

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Click into the line above where you want the new, blank line to be.

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Open the ‘Table’ menu.

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Select ‘Insert’ > ‘Rows below’.

Name of meeting

Write whether it is a class council, year council, sub-committee,or school council meeting here

Date

Write on what day and date you meeting will be here.

Location

Write in which room your meeting will be here.

Time

Write the start and finish times of your meeting here.

To do beforemeeting

Write anything that people should do or read before the meeting here.

To bring tomeeting

Write anything people need to remember to bring with them to the meeting here.

RoleNameRepresentingInitials

Chair

The name of the person who will run the meeting.In this column you should write who each of these peoplerepresents: the people who chose or elected them.Use initials inyour minutesrather thanwriting fullnames.

Secretary

The name of the person taking notes.For some meetings people are just representing themselves,so you can leave this column blankPut them in thiscolumn as areference.TeacherWrite the names of all the people who should come to themeeting in this column.Time-keeperYou might need to add more lines.Representative

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