Muritai School Leadership Roles for 2012

Head Boy/Girl and Deputies:

Duties:

• Give out student certificates at assembly
• Taking an important role in formal school events
• Greeting new visitors to the school and showing them around.
• Liaising with teachers on student matters
• Giving out house points to children in junior school
• Once a week on duty and give out playground certificate.
• Representing the school and official occasions e.g ANZAC day
• Writing and delivering end of year speeches at Year 8 formal.
• Possibly chairing school council meetings

Some of the Qualities required:

• Confident and articulate speaker
• Sound knowledge of Muritai School including practices, values and strengths
• Excellent Listener
• Well respected by peers, teachers and parents
• Excellent organization skills
• Friendly and approachable
• Honest with strong integrity
• Responsible and trust-worthy
• Strong leader

Class Representatives.

Duties:

• In charge when teacher is out of room.
• Assist students and teacher in class.
• Write out certificates for student of the week.
• Publish class updates on blog.
• Organizing class relays.
• Developing a class chant.
• Liaising with classroom teacher on student matters.

Some of the Qualities Required:

• Well respected by peers, teachers and parents
• Excellent organization skills
• Friendly and approachable
• Honest with strong integrity
• Consistently demonstrates strong school values
• Responsible and trust-worthy

House Captains

Duties:

• Shared responsibility of collecting and recording house points around the school.
• Organising house relays for sport events
• Announcing house points in assemblies
• Encouraging dress up for sports day
• Creating flyers or newsletter to ‘sell’ and ‘educate’ others on history of the house.

Some of the Qualities Required:

• Well respected by peers and teachers
• Excellent organization skills
• Confident in leading others, particularly younger children
• Creative
• Friendly and approachable
• Consistently demonstrates strong school values
• Responsible and trust-worthy
• Creating new house ‘chants’ for sports events

Assembly Hosts

Duties:

• Organise assembly script and agenda
• Run assembly
• Liase with Mr Devenport, Mrs Hooke and Mr Bird on assembly programme
• Practise!
• Liaise with other teachers if class is presenting work

Some of the Qualities required:

• Clear, Fluent, articulate and confident speaker and reader
• Excellent organisation skills
• Responsible and trust-worthy
• Friendly and approachable
• Good crowd control!

Assembly Set up / AV Support

Duties:

• Music (CD’s, Musical Instruments) organized and tested ready for assembly
• Setting up laptop and operating through assembly
• Operating Sound system through assembly
• Setting up chairs for assembly
• Setting up and testing microphones
• Setting up and operating projector screen
• Setting up cones for aisle
• Liaising with assembly hosts, Mr.

Devenport and Mrs. Hooke on assembly organisation

Some of the Qualities required:

• Excellent organization skills
• Responsible and trust-worthy
• Tech savvy with laptop, data projector and sound system
• Excellent communication skills

Charity Organisers

Duties:

• Selecting charities to support
• Liaising with teachers on charities
• Promoting charities to support to school community
• Collecting and counting the money
• Advertising charity days
• Contributing to birds eye view and blogs

Some of the Qualities required:

• Excellent organization skills
• Responsible and trust-worthy
• Friendly and approachable
• Creative!
• A strong appreciation of the value of charities in our community
• Strong communication skills

Enviro School Ambassadors

Duties:

• Tour guide for enviro visitors
• Promoting environmental awareness and practice throughout the school
• Managing class practice – goose boxes, recycling boxes.
• Introducing new enviro practice
• Managing enviro blog
• Organising school wide gardening club
• Liaising with Mrs. Berry and other teahers throughout the school

Some of the Qualities required:

• Strong knowledge of Muritai’s environmental journey
• A strong appreciation of the value of environmental education
• Strong communication skills
• Responsible and trust-worthy
• A keen gardener!

Muritai TV

Duties:

• Manage whole Muritai TV process (including, creating ideas, scripting hosting and editing)
• Liaising with Mr Bird
• Presenting Muritai TV items in assembly
• End of term news item – terms highlights for assembly
• Ensuring Room 10 – ‘Studio’ is kept clean and tidy
• Ensuring there prgramme caters for children with special needs.

Some of the Qualities required:

• Tech savvy - particularly in operating video cameras and using imovie
• Clear, Fluent, articulate and confident speaker and reader
• Excellent organization skills
• Responsible and trust-worthy
• Friendly and approachable
• Creative

Sports Ambassadors

Duties:

• Supporting Mr. McKay in the management of PE equipment throughout the school
• Assisting in organization of Inter- school events
• Taking leadership roles and assisting teachers in junior sports events
• Organising lunch time games
• Possible leadership role in Wednesday sport rotation
• Contribute to school newsletters
• Ensuring parent and teacher coaches are formally acknowledged and thanked for their time.

Some of Qualities Required:

• A strong appreciation of the value of physical education
• Excellent organization skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Responsible and trust worthy
• Demonstrating strength in a particular area of physical education would be an advantage.

Wet Weather Monitors

Duties:

• Supervise junior classrooms during wet lunchtimes
• Play with them!
• Organise games activities from junior children.
• Liaising with junior teachers

Some of the Qualities required:

• Responsible and trust-worthy
• Friendly and approachable
• Good communication skills
• Enjoy working with younger children
• Creative

Kapa Haka Leaders

Duties:

• Liaise with Mr. Chadwick
• Lead the Year 7/8 in Kapa Haka Practise
• Support Mr Chadwick in Kapa Haka organisation
• Take lead in Powhiri

Some of Qualities required:

• Strong knowledge of Te Reo and Kapa Haka processes
• A confident leader
• Enjoy working with younger children

Art Ambassadors

Duties:

• Liaise with Mrs. Berry, Mrs Hooke and Mrs Allen on art matters
• Assist with school production and wearable arts preparations
• Available for assisting with art in junior classes

Some of Qualities required:

• A passion for all things arty!
• Creative
• Responsible and trust-worthy

Junior Lunch Duty – Year 7

Duties

• Assisting duty teacher with crowd control during eating time
• Checking lunchboxes in junior school
• Giving house points
• Liaising with Mrs. Buckley
• Possible leader – to co-ordinate rosters etc

Some of Qualities Required:

• Responsible and trust-worthy
• Friendly and approachable
• Good communication skills
• Enjoy working with younger children

Assembly Buddies – Year 7

Duties:

•Sitting with junior classes during

assembly to help keep them focused.

• Meeting classes before hand and taking them to assembly.
• Liaising with junior teachers

Some of the Qualities required:

• Responsible and trust-worthy
• Friendly and approachable
• Good communication skills
• Enjoy working with younger children
• Good crowd control!

School Council

• This is a possibilities for establishing towards the end of Term 1.
• Made up of the school leader.
• Option of class captains from Year 5/6
• Meet at once or twice a term to express student voice.
• Liaise with Mr Devenport and Mr Bird.