The Values Committee

Modern Language Assistants

Emma Leconte

French

Silvia Tanzini

Italian

Clara Normand

French

Maxim Skupsch

German

Abimaer Arias Guillen

Spanish Taking inspiration from last year’s pioneering Values Committee members, the 2022/23 Values Committee got off to a racing start at the end of the last academic term.

We, the new Values Committee, knew early on that we wanted to continue the legacy work of the previous committee in combating the behaviour exposed in the Everyone’s Invited campaign and promoting the respect of women and girls in Paulines.

To these ends, Values met with SPGS’s Consent and Respect committee (CAR) to discuss how best to engage younger years in our respective efforts. These discussions yielded a very successful programme of interschool PSHE sessions – with Values members talking to Year 10 Paulinas and vice-versa. It was quickly established that we wanted to take our roles one step beyond last year’s brief, and so set about testing the bounds of the committee’s seemingly infinitely broad remit. Among other things, we have so far explored St Paul’s compulsory PSHE Talks programme, pronoun policy and school trip policy.

We think that the Values Committee is an invaluable tool in both promoting greater pupil involvement in school policy creation and ensuring current policy transparency for the benefit of students and school alike. St Paul’s being as large an institution as it is, its complex inner workings can feel removed from day-to-day life on the grounds.

The Values Committee of 2022/23 aims to nurture a better school culture while keeping its work, and the work of other leadership groups, accessible to the Pauline masses. We’ve achieved a lot so far, but it’s not yet time to take our foot off the pedal. We look forward to a productive year working towards a brighter future – as generic as it sounds, it’s the truth. ❚