Student life

Student Council

Hills Road Student Council

The Student Council is a group of elected students who work as an executive team to improve the College community and represent the student body within Hills Road and the wider community.

Current Student Council officers (2025-26)

Meet this year's Student Council! (click each image to view name and role)

Roles on the Student Council

The Student Council is made up of executive officers in the following roles:

(Safi Al Majid, 2025-26)

Organises College fundraising activities, supports students with charity events, and plays a key role in deciding which charities we support as a community.

Who leads the Student Council?

Once students have been elected to each officer role, the Student Council internally select their Chair and Vice Chair for their cohort.

The Chair and Vice Chair are executive officers who chair meetings, attend College board meetings and take on extra leadership responsibilities. The Chair and Vice Chair are supported where needed by a senior staff member who is their point of contact (currently Vice Principal, Tim Lomas).

What does being on the Student Council involve?

We meet every Monday with a senior member of staff (as of 2025-26 this is Deputy Principal, Tim Lomas), where we discuss an agenda of items brought forward by individual members of the Student Council.

This often includes current events happening in College, issues raised by students and staff, and actions, feedback, and proposals focused on improving student life and communication across the College. We then spend the week working on these various points, implementing changes, and hosting events. In the process, we work with many College departments such as the Wellbeing Team, Estates, and Catering among others.

Representing College life

While each executive officer on the Council leads on their own elected area, everyone on the Council works as a team.

To help with this, there are five key strands of College life for which two Student Council members are paired up. This means that the Council always has two officers to represent the Hills Road student body in relevant meetings and decision-making.

Below, the 2025-26 Student Council representatives share more about their respective areas...

"Our job is to help manage all things environment-related at Hills Road to make it a greener school. We work with Chris Graham and the Environment Representatives (a group of students) to promote a culture of sustainability at Hills Road in hopes that we encourage students to be more invested in the environment as they pass through sixth form.

The Environment Representatives manage and take part in a variety of projects and events, such as building bat boxes or writing their very own newsletter on recent environment news which was published to the whole school. For example, we recently gave a talk/workshop to teachers on climate education on a teacher training day, and are setting up a trail camera for on-site wildlife in hopes that students will be more invested in the environment if they can see it first-hand.

All our projects work towards our main goal of encouraging a culture of sustainability at our school, an attitude that students leaving Hills Road can bring into the world!"

How to become a Student Council member

Stage 1: Initial Interest

First, you will register your initial interest in becoming a Student Council member, using a Microsoft Form to indicate your wish to campaign. The Council will choose candidates based on the answers to progress to the campaigning stage.

Stage 2: Campaigning

This period is our favourite! Here, you can do whatever it is (within reason) that you think will assure your peers that you are fit for the role and able to represent them. There will be a Code of Conduct and basic rules to ensure a safe, fair and fun experience. Campaigning usually includes social media campaigning, as well as in person campaigning through conversations with peers.

Stage 3: Hustings and Manifestos

As part of your campaign, you will be required to write a manifesto which sets the policies you wish to take into your time in the Student Council. Additionally, towards the end of the campaigning process, candidates will take part in a hustings, where you can present your policies to students in person, in front of a crowd.

Stage 4: Voting

At the end of the campaign period, Year 12s will have the chance to vote for their preferred candidate

Stage 5: Results!

Shortly after voting, candidates will be notified of the results. The successful candidates meet the current Student Council and start to integrate into our meetings.

Students will be regularly hearing from us via Microsoft Teams and on email. You will also often see us in the Student Briefings, which are also sent home to parents at the end of the week.

You can keep up with us externally via our Instagram page (@hillsroadcouncil).

We can also be contacted by email at studentcouncil@hillsroad.ac.uk

If you have any questions for us, want to collaborate, have a project or society you think will benefit the College, or just need a question answered, we would be more than happy to hear from you!