Action Planning Form

School Councils UK – Agenda and Minutes Template

Please feel free to reproduce this resource with acknowledgement (non-commercial use only). © School Councils UK 2009. Delete the text in light blue and put in the real information for your meeting to create an agenda. To create your minutes you should first remove the names of any one who could not come from the list below. Next you should delete the text in green and replace it with the real information from your meeting. If you need to add another line:  Click into the line above where you want the new, blank line to be.  Open the ‘Table’ menu.  Select ‘Insert’ > ‘Rows below’.

Name of Write whether it is a class council, year council, sub-committee, Date Write on what day and date you meeting will be here. meeting or school council meeting here Location Write in which room your meeting will be here. Time Write the start and finish times of your meeting here. To do before Write anything that people should do or read before the meeting here. meeting To bring to Write anything people need to remember to bring with them to the meeting here. meeting Role Name Representing Initials Chair The name of the person who will run the meeting. In this column you should write who each of these people Use initials in represents: the people who chose or elected them. your minutes rather than writing full names. Secretary The name of the person taking notes. For some meetings people are just representing themselves, Put them in this so you can leave this column blank column as a reference. Teacher Write the names of all the people who should come to the meeting in this column. Time-keeper You might need to add more lines.

Representative

School Councils UK, The Old Dairy, Victoria Street, Felixstowe, IP11 7EW Tel 0845 456 9428 Fax 0845 456 9429 Email [email protected] www.schoolcouncils.org School Councils UK – Agenda and Minutes Template

Please feel free to reproduce this resource with acknowledgement (non-commercial use only). © School Councils UK 2009.

Time Item Person Discussion Action Who When 1 Apologies Sec. Who could not make the meeting and why. 3 Approval of last minutes Sec. Any mistakes made in minutes from last meeting.

Matters arising from last minutes In the area below, people report back on things that should have been done by the time the meeting happens. How Write what the issue is. Who is Write all proposals here and how the decision was Write the action plan for each Who When much bringing made in this column. You can also write any major thing you discuss in this column. will will time it up? objections people brought up. take they is charge? report allow back? ed for each item?

Agenda items The area below is where all the new things to discuss go. Write what the issue is. Who is bringing it up?

Any other business Any urgent issues that have come up since the agenda was sent out go in the area below. Write what the issue is. Who brought it up?

1 Date of next meeting Chair

School Councils UK, The Old Dairy, Victoria Street, Felixstowe, IP11 7EW Tel 0845 456 9428 Fax 0845 456 9429 Email [email protected] www.schoolcouncils.org