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		Breakfast Time

		Initiating and helping to organise breakfast clubs ensuring that all pupils have access to a healthy breakfast before they start the day. Involvement in promoting or helping to organise after school clubs in school, promoting a scheme to encourage students to take part in clubs or Youth groups in their local community. Campaign to improve, maintain and open sports facilities in your area. Developing and running Fruit Tuck Shops at break time


	Getting to School
		Could you be involved in a 'safe routes to school' project like a 'walking bus' scheme? Can you think of any other schemes that would cut down on pollution and provide a safe way to get to school? Can your school do anything to improve local transport services in your community and promote their use? Could you lobby the council for safer streets around the school, e.g traffic humps and crossings to slow down traffic?


		In the Playground

		Why do you think Sam's friend (see quiz) is being bullied? Can you think of any examples you might have experienced? Find newspaper cuttings and discuss the recent case of Damiola Taylor. Could this happen in your area? What can we do to prevent this tragedy in the future?How is bullying dealt with in your school? Could you start a 'Playground Buddies' or 'Playground Peacemakers' scheme? What are other ways that students can take responsibility for their own and each others behaviour? Think about bullying on a global scale. Do countries bully other countries and how might they do this and why? Is your School Council involved in helping your school to develop an anti-bullying campaign?


		In the Lesson

		Do you understand some of the issues that have led to an increase in the need for more supply staff in schools? What is the situation in your school? Could your school develop a student led induction for long term supply staff? Could your School Council be involved in ensuring students have a say in the effectiveness of supply teachers and voice any concerns they may have? Could your School Council be actively involved in developing a behaviour policy to encourage students to take responsibility for their own and each others' behaviour and learning?


		At Work

		Does your school use recycled paper? Does your school recycle paper or other materials? Could you introduce a recycling project in your school through your School Council and how? Do you have a local scrap scheme that may be able to help you as well as provide recycled resources to your school such as paper, wood and computer equipment? How can you campaign for everyone in your school to think about re-using resources in your school? Find out about recycling projects in other countries using the internet.


		On the Way Home

		Ask your teachers if they drink Fairtrade/organic tea and coffee in the Staff Room. Speak to your catering staff and find out whether there are any Fairtrade/organic products that could be introduced in your schools canteen. Make recommendations to staff about a Fairtrade policy e.g using Fairtrade tea, coffee and sugar in the staff room, Fairtrade bananas in your Fruit Tuck Shop. Could you introduce a Fairtrade/organic tuck-shop? Consider the following quote and find out where some of our daily food is produced. 'In the morning we drink coffee provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs we are already indebted to more than half the world'. Martin Luther King


		Free Time

		Can your school get involved in community led 'Out of Hours' schemes? Could your School Council collect a list of youth clubs, activity centres, sports and other clubs in your area and find a way of letting students know what's available to them? Could you establish a pupil mentor scheme so that more able/older students can share their knowledge and skills with others?

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Original project funded by EU and Dfid with support from Tower Hamlets LEA