Your school has been given a grant of 10,000 from the govt. Of behalf of your year group, write a letter to your head-teacher to offer advice on how the school should spend it.

Your school has been given a grant of £10,000 from the govt. Of behalf of your year group, write a letter to your head-teacher to offer advice on how the school should spend it.

Dear Mr English,

I am writing to you, on behalf of Year Eleven, with the intention of offering advice on how best to spend the government grant. As students of the school, we play an intimate role in college life; I therefore believe our input will be most beneficial to you.

The most important issue is to outline factors that need to be addressed. They include: providing more advanced sporting equipment; installing interactive facilities in the classrooms; improving school meals and focussing on making our school more ‘environmentally friendly’.

Every child, whether they are a boy or girl, has an innate passion for sport; they enjoy kicking balls around the playground and exercising on treadmills. I therefore propose that the school spends a portion of the money on upgrading our fitness suite and providing more sport facilities in the school’s playground. Currently, only twenty students can benefit from using the fitness suite; providing more equipment will make the suite available to more students. This, I am sure, will please students; happy students are more likely to be co-operative in lessons and their behaviour is likely to improve, which comes as an added bonus! Adding new facilities to the playground will allow students to enjoy their break-time more effectively, which, akin to the previous factor, is likely to improve the behaviour of students.

Another factor I believe must be addressed, is installing interactive facilities in classrooms. Such facilities will certainly increase the involvement of students in the lessons; the outcomes of such events could be, for example, an increase in exam performance. I am not saying last years results of eighty percentage A’s and A*’s is anything to be ashamed of, on the contrary; I am suggesting that we could improve this accolade to eighty five or ninety percent – tell me this is not an advantage!

School meals. What a disaster. I am sure you remember last year’s complaints ...

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School meals. What a disaster. I am sure you remember last year’s complaints from the parents and students; the noisy protests that disrupted your meetings? A portion of this money could be spent on allowing our food to taste cooked; allowing our food to be served warm and allowing the fruit we eat to taste something other than mouldy. Cheap and practical solutions are available: employing cooks rather than allowing the chemistry teachers to cook our dinner might be a start! Installing ovens rather than using electric heaters to warm up the food would give us the benefit of hot meals. Storing fruit in the fridge overnight rather than leaving to the service of bugs and flies could prevent it from tasting like sludge! Food is a vital source of energy; energy is needed for students to function properly. If you want to eliminate the teenage ‘lip’ that is given to so many teachers, due to moody, undernourished students, I strongly advise you feed them with decent food!

A final factor I would like to address is the environment. This is the cheapest solution and I therefore urge you to comply with my suggestions. Our school disposes of about five tonnes of waste paper every year! However, we dispose of it using the rubbish bins, not recycling bins. It would cost perhaps twenty pounds to provide each classroom with its own recycling bin. Not only this, but you would successfully increase the schools pubic reputation if you were seen as playing an active role in the environment!

I would also like to advise how you divide the money between each cause, so that you don’t exceed the budget: I advise you spend about one and a half thousand pounds on the sport facilities; three thousand pounds on interactive classroom facilities; two thousand on supporting the new lunches scheme – some of this, however, will have to be funded by the school bill (not that this is not the case at the moment!). The cost of focussing on the environment is minimal, but it could have immense effects. The best thing about my scheme is that there is surplus money, leaving you with the opportunity to improve factors that suite you!

If you follow the advice I have given, you could: improve the student’s exam grades by five to ten percent; improve the schools reputation; prevent students from getting diarrhoea; provide your students with more enjoyable break-times and, possibly, improve the general behaviour of the pupils.

I hope you found my advice helpful and pray you don’t find my comments concerning the current lunch scheme too offensive.

Yours,

J. S