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Study Room/Common Room
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When you were (or if you are) at school did you have a common room/study room?
My school has a Study Room for 6th years only but it's a constant battle between students and teachers to secure the room. Every time something goes wrong the room gets locked and the teachers squabble amongst themselves as to who gets the room.
For example. A while ago someone in the lower school came in and shredded a newspaper and scattered it all over the room. The door was locked and by the next day the learning support teacher had moved all her stuff in. Luckily we complained to the head of year and we were given back the room but the LS teacher wasn't too happy (she still hasn't moved her stuff)
Anyone have opinions on this?
P.S.
Since I was voted Chairman of the Senior School Council I wanted to pass a motion to give the 'study room' actual status and secure the room for future 6th years but I'm not sure how well that would go. I'd go as far as a strike but I'm not sure who would be with me on that one.
P.P.S
Should study rooms be compulsary?
My school has a Study Room for 6th years only but it's a constant battle between students and teachers to secure the room. Every time something goes wrong the room gets locked and the teachers squabble amongst themselves as to who gets the room.
For example. A while ago someone in the lower school came in and shredded a newspaper and scattered it all over the room. The door was locked and by the next day the learning support teacher had moved all her stuff in. Luckily we complained to the head of year and we were given back the room but the LS teacher wasn't too happy (she still hasn't moved her stuff)
Anyone have opinions on this?
P.S.
Since I was voted Chairman of the Senior School Council I wanted to pass a motion to give the 'study room' actual status and secure the room for future 6th years but I'm not sure how well that would go. I'd go as far as a strike but I'm not sure who would be with me on that one.
P.P.S
Should study rooms be compulsary?
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WE've had that problem on & off since the start of term and it's a right pain when the common room is locked...
Are younger students allowed in this room??? they were stricktly forbidden in ours, as it was a place to get away from them!
i think a stike is probably the wrong way to go about it as you would probably be the ones to loose out!
if i was you, i would structure a very formal (but polite) letter, outlining why you feel you need the space and the problem with it at the moment, then suggest how they could be ressolved as a compromise. As you are chairman you should present this letter to your head of year, or other member of staff you feel you can trust!
A strike might be radical but if the room is locked again I would consider it as an option.
The letter thing is a good idea though. Thanks.
I don't understand why the teachers would steal your space, even if you are not momentarily allowed to use it. It's just rudeness, but I guess they must be extremely lacking in the space for staff or something..
at the boys school where i went for a couple of subjects at a-level, they had their own 6th form block which basically had a canteen area, another area for sitting-just tables and chairs and stuff which was noisy at lunch but had to be quiet in the day for ppl to work. if you wanted quiet at lunch there was a room to use. so yeah... we were pretty well catered for.
i dont understand why teachers would want your space either.. ours would never have wanted to come near ours, not to use it anyway, they just came to check up on us occasionally. you need to do something to make sure you can keep the room just for yourselves, doesnt seem very fair otherwise. surely the teachers have enough places for themselves, i.e. the staffroom and their own classrooms?!
There's nowhere to go though, apart from the Concourse, which is almost always full and pretty boring at times. Oh well.
Unfortunatley there were a number of man-child types (you know, shaving since they were six, had to concentrate to remember to breath etc) who were allowed to stay on while doing no highers. Not even one. And like most evolutionary dead ends they were into professional wrestling. Ah, that joyous day when the biggest man-child began to put the smaller one through the tables while shouting "power bomb".
It took six weeks to clean up the common room after we left.
Anyway, the room was offically ours, with certain stipulations. The music wasn't to be too loud, The classes near the room weren't to be disturbed, it had to be kept reasonable clean etc. And it was our room. Teachers would knock before they came in and stuff.
The teachers seemed to dig it because they could just nip down to the common room grab a sixth year if they needed one.
We have a small common room, with bashed-up blue seats and a small kitchen area.
Then we have an adjoining small computer room - 6 computers and a couple of chairs.
When I finally grew up and decided to work I hung out upstairs with all the goth kids who used to give the evils to the trendy & indie kids on the other side of the room. the upstairs common room smelt of warm milk.
University, our halls have no common rooms, but we have a canteen and two bars on campus.