STUDENTS' COUNCIL OF TULLINGE GYMNASIUM

Today we had an interaction session with Mr.Johalles Yayo,the President of the student council of Tullinge Gymnasium.The students' council in Tulllinge Gymnasium consists of 50 members.These members are elected from the classes.Two students from each class are elected.The students' council here brings the information from the class to the Head of the school.So basically it works for the Headmaster.In Tullinge Gymnasium, the council has 7 students as the Head, namely:
(1)President
(2)Vice President
(3)Secretary
(4)Vice Secretary
(5)Financial pesrson
(6)Vice Financial person
(7)Member
Their responsibility is to perform all the actions and carry out the entire system.The elections for the council are conducted once in a year.They have a separate sports council which has its own head.But the student council does help it financially.They have meetings with the whole council to talk on issues like environment,teachers,classes,Principal,traditional activities.They have meetings with the Head of the council and with the Head of the school as well to discuss on major issues like smoking,selling coca cola etc.The council here has various departments like
(a)The Environment department.
(b)The Examination depatment.
These are independent departments which consists of students alone, no teachers are involved.The Examination department decides the exam dates, as in they are given the right to choose a date from the given dates.Here,all the programmes are decided by the Principal.An organisation named SEKU,supports the council by providing 40 Kr to each member of the council and the school provides 7000 Kr. Out of this entire money, one third is given to the Examination department and the remaining money is used to buy presents like stationery, to put up games in the cafeteria and for decorations.The types of events that are organised by the students' council here are:
(a)Haloween
(b)Hat day - on this day, every student brings his\her own hat or can buy it since they are sold by the council members especially on that day and wear it for the whole day.
(c)Hip hop trousers day-on this day the students wear the hip hop pants.
(d)Christmas
(e)Valentine's day
(f)Programme exchange day where in each student exchanges his\her subject with the other student.
The lectures are not called off during the events except for the Programme exchange day.Therefore they conduct events which do not let the students miss classes.