Sudbury Sec pupil sworn in as board's student trustee

Sloan Boyd, a Grade 12 student at Sudbury Secondary School, will serve as student trustee on the Rainbow District School Board for the 2010-2011 School Year.

She was sworn in at the board meeting Aug. 30.

“We are delighted to welcome Sloan Boyd as a student trustee,” Tyler Campbell, chair of the school board, said in a press release.

“Rainbow Schools are all about students and Sloan Boyd will bring the student perspective to the table. Her involvement will give us an opportunity to develop our future leaders and will give her an inside look at democracy in action.”

Boyd said she looks forward to fulfilling her role as a student trustee.

“I have had the privilege of being a member of the Rainbow District School Board’s Student Senate during the past school year,” Boyd said.

“As secretary of the Student Senate, I took on quite a few responsibilities and I am certainly ready to take on more. I am so proud to be the voice of students and I know I can make an important contribution as student trustee.”

Boyd is enrolled in the Arts Education Program at Sudbury Secondary School, where she is majoring in dance. She has been an active member of Sudbury Secondary School’s Student Parliament since Grade 9 and served as deputy prime minister during the past school year.

Boyd plans to pursue her postsecondary studies in law and political science at Laurentian University.