Common Rooms
24 03 2007The vote which ran for the last two weeks attracted 909 votes, with 80% thinking that a common room for all year groups would be valuable. Current Sixth Form students certainly enjoy the privilege of their common room, but would also like more readily available study areas.
How could we get the most from additional common rooms? Should boys gather there for form periods every morning? Should lockers be located there for bags and coats? Will they serve as dining rooms as well?
It is very important that we get the most out of each space in school, so how can the common rooms be used outside of break times? Should they also be libraries / study areas, or be used as classrooms during lesson times?
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There should be a vending machine in each common room and some computers for finishing off work. Also a TV for each common room and a football and snooker table that you had to pay for.
How about a jukebox for each common room and you can add your CDs to it but you can’t get it back.
I think lockers in the common rooms i a good idea so thn you always know where your locker is. But i also think having form periods in the common rooms if we have seperate year common rooms is a bad idea because then the common rooms will always be crowded in the morning and the teachers will have to shout to be heard over the other teachers when doing their register
I agree Adam. I believe that having registration in the common room would be preposterous. It would no doubt create cha-os. Instead, we should retain individual form rooms and common rooms should be only used for the sudent’s free time at lunch and break.
I definatly agree with Adam and Dave - common rooms should be for finishing off work and socialising in.
Mark you are asking for things that ruin us. Football and snooker tables are great, but paying for them? With bus fares rising and canteen prices gradually getting 5p higher every few weeks, people do NOT have enough money. The tables would be pointless if people couldn’t afford them. It would also be unfair for some people who can’t afford them.
And the jukebox idea is NOT thought through. Would you put your CD’s into a jukebox to play a few songs, but not get them back?
It is a good idea
i like this idea
I think the common rooms should be a place to chill and have fun!!!
why cant we have a fingerprint scanner as our registration and upon entry to the common room we can automatically register
I think it is a rlly gud idea coz i am in yr8 and i want a place just for us
I feel that coomon rooms for each year is simply a bad idea.
This is because, the 6th Form Common Room has been a place to look up to and to something to work towards at the years of the college. Therefore the idea of having a common room for each year will take away this reward. I also feel that these rooms will be used more as playgrounds rather than a place of study and relaxation for the students. Finally, I do agree with having designated areas where boys can study but individual common rooms would be a waste of space. I feel that the boys in the lower school should use the sixth form and a common room as something to work towards throughout their school life as it is a huge privelige to a sixth former, a leader of the school
i went to this school a few years ago and all i can say is if there are separate common rooms they’ll all just get messy and then be withdrawn from use until “all boys can keep them tidy”. the plans do look wicked however.
I am in year nine and all though it would be a luxury to have a common room i think they should just stick to the upper school. I agree with Jay that they would get very untidy and they would be like a second playground for the younger years.
In theory common rooms are a great idea, but in practise they will be unmaintainable and become a noisy, crowded, messy places. Instead I suggest small spaces open to the corridors with built in seating clinging to two walls. There could be another wall for lockers. These spaces could be located throughout the school and would be useful as well as manageable for staff.