The Parents’ Association at BG/BRG Klosterneuburg
The Parents’ Association represents the parents of all students in the School Community Committee (=SGA) and takes care of all their concerns. It also aims at encouraging an exchange between “new” and more experienced parents or between the parents of a cohort or class. The Parents’ Association also processes requests for financial support and grants monetary aid if justified.
All parents are sincerely invited to take on an active role in the association and to contribute to successful communication between parents and educators and to further an open and constructive conversation and cooperation between home and school. That way issues may be identified before they become too difficult to solve and conflicts might be resolved faster and more easily. The parent representatives will always have an open ear for problems related to school life.
Please find contact details and further information on the functions of the Parents’ Association here: link: http://evbgklosterneuburg.at
Board of Students‘ Representatives – briefly explained
The Students’ Representatives are a vital part of the school community who, as a democratically elected board of students (SchUG §58 Abs.1), represent the rights of the students. Austria stands out as the only country worldwide to have made student representation statutory.
The Board of Students’ Representatives comprises (SchUG §59a Abs.1 – 4):
- School Representative of the entire school and their deputies, who are elected by all higher grades’ students (Years 5 – 8)
- Representative of the Lower Grades – elected by all class representatives of the lower grades (Years 1 – 4)
- Representatives of the cohorts- elected by the students of the respective cohorts (not statutory)
- Class representative/head student – elected by all the students of the respective class
The elected representatives are the people to turn to for all students of our school while they also act as important communicators and mediators between students, parents and headteacher.
The School Representative and their two deputies are part of the School Community Committee (=Schulgemeinschaftsausschuss/SGA, SchUG §64 Abs.3) and are expected to represent the interests of the students there.
While in office our School Representative is entitled to vote in the election for Federal State of Lower Austria School Representative (=Landesschulsprecherwahl, SchUG §8) and that way also represents our school at state level.