Head Boy Alex Aston and Deputy Head Girl Poppy Crawford (also School Council Members) were asked to attend a meeting of the Partners and the Community Teamwork (PACT) group on the 9th March.

PACT meetings, held four times a year here at school, are attended by representatives from the local police, various members of the public and a local member of the county council. The group have been keen to hear about the views of young people in the community.

The aim of PACT is to improve the local area by allowing the public to voice their concerns about their community to a local member of the county council. Topics discussed included improving the road surface at the Cross-road on Wetty Lane; whether the roundabout outside Waseley Hills High school should be engineered into a traffic calming measure; the parking bay at Beaconside Primary and Nursery School and a new property being built on Beacon Hill.

Waseley students can now look forward to adding their viewpoint on local issues by having a voice at the PACT meetings. As PACT spokesperson Jon Horwood stated, students of Waseley are “equally a part of the community as anyone else”.

Alex Aston