Three pupils at a school in Warminster have made history by becoming the school’s first student president and vice-presidents, respectively.

Rachel Cox, 18, has been appointed Kingdown Community School’s first student president with Year 12 students, Milly Cornish, 17, and Marcus Beer, 16, becoming vice-presidents.

In their new roles the teenagers will oversee the student councils and the schools’ five houses.

Rachel, who lives in the town and is studying French, philosophy and psychology, said: “I’m the first president of the school so it’s a bit daunting but we want to change small things within the school and make sure everyone is happy.”

And the teenagers have already started to make a difference by attending a senior management meeting at the school on Wednesday along with heads from the school councils and house captains.

The first change they want to make is to maximise the time tutor groups spend together each day.

Rachel said: “We have a vertical tutor group system which means tutor groups are made up pupils from different year groups.

“We want to make tutor times more productive to try and get the most out those twenty minutes every day.

“We want the sixth formers to get involved so the time can be run effectively.”

Marcus, who is studying science, art, physical education and business, said: “We want to continue to discuss current affairs in the tutor times. For example we were recently talking about the Australian floods.

“We want to make pupils aware of what is going on in the world,” Milly added.

Head of Sixth Form, Stuart Porter, wants the trio to have an active role in the school rather than just being figureheads.

He said: “We want our students to have a voice and I felt if we needed more of a structure. We needed people to oversee the councils and house system.

“I felt we were missing a link between the councils and houses and the staff.

“We want the president and vice presidents to get involved in assemblies and tutor periods, they won’t just be figureheads.

“We are already looking at starting up a student forum where pupils can talk about issues within the school.”