Senior Council

Students on Senior Council

President: Kiera Foster

Vice President: Julie Allmers

Treasurer: Aiden Ward

Secretary: Bridget Coyle

Representatives: Thomas Dewitt, Ava Devincenzo, Elise Schicker, Evan Murad, Talian Dian

Minutes

April 6th, 2021

1:00- 1:30

• Scavenger Hunt 
  • Amount for winners for scavenger hunt ($10 per person) 
  • Julie will pick them up from Dunkin/ email or text them it 
• Commitment Day 
  • May 1st – Saturday 
  • Monday and Tuesday for Cohort A and B 
  • Google Form for winners of car decorating contest 
  • Teachers dress up for decision day 
• Panther Stickers 
  • Next week- send out email
  • Price: $1 for one 
  • Jerome keeps them in her room and then people pick them up 
• Lanyards 
  • Talk to Sarah Urrea about selling them to juniors 
• Senior Class Gift/ activities 
  • Movie Night 
  • Senior Sunrise (rvsp with a number) 
  • Leaving behind something as the Panthers 
• Panther Mural in the school 
• Panther Poster on Track or in Gym 

March 23rd, 2021

1:00- 1:30

• Scavenger Hunt List Completed
  • Pick 20 for desmos 
  • Disclaimer: If you violate covid guidelines, then the picture doesn’t count 
  • Monday-Friday 
  • One picture per prompt
    • Each prompt has a point value 
    • Whoever finishes the fastest 
  • 5 or less per team 
    • $5 per player (1-3 people)
    • $15 per group (4-5 people)
• PSA 
• Panther Merch 
  • Tshirt
    • Stefan completed design/ Ariella has not finished 
    • Regular Logo through committee could take a while
    •  Generic panther Merch with paw 
  • Sticker 
    • Lettering and wait for regular logo 
  • Lanyards
    • PV Panthers in fun font 

March 16th, 2021

1:00- 1:30

• Promposal Account 
  • Initial post to kick off account
  • Pro pic using Picsart 

•  Yearbook Pictures to Taha
• Mascot Tshirt Designs 
  • Has to be approved by Demarris 
  • Designs by Stefan and Ariella 
• Class Cause Week (Scavenger Hunt)
  • Google Form: max of 10 pics and file size limit 
  • Desmos: Mrs. C
    • Upload pictures to slide 
    • Cannot see each others posts 
    • Can organize with group names
    • Ability to pause when game is over 
    • Google Doc with ideas for the scavenger hunt 
• PSA 
  • Council films individual part and then Kyle will put it all together 
  • Thomas Betsy, Kirsten Kiernan (email or text for involvement/ feature in video) 
• Sticker Mascot 
  • Evan has idea for design 
• March Madness Bracket 
  • Whole grade gets involved in bracket 
  • Pay $3 to get 
  • Evan email DM for approval 
• Valley Cup Event Pop Culture
  • Jess Evans 
  • Tyler Toledo
  • Maddi Miller 
  • Ellie Schaumberger
  • Natalia Chinchilla 
  • Niko Degruccio 

March 9th, 2021

1:00- 1:30

• Instagram Takeovers 
  • Softball: Evan 
  • Lacrosse: Julie 
  • Gymnastics: Bridget
  • Robotics: Thomas 
• Promposal Instagram Account 
  • prom insta username: valleypromposals 
• Class Cause Week (April 5th- April 9th)
  • Fundraiser: 
    • Submit pictures of people doing each thing
    • Race to submit form by the end of the week 
    • Kens sandwich, picture with principal
    • Thomas: form (organize on spreadsheet)
    • Mrs C: organize Desmos 
  • PSA (due before spring break)
    • Kyle Commerford 
  • Give portion of profits from stickers to JDRF
• Graduation/ Commitment Day Drive By 
• Senior Panthers Tshirt 
  • Ask Stefan/ Ariella Alfonso 
  • Use Tshirt to get people excited about new mascot 
• Mascot 
  • Artwork around building
  • Banner in front of school 
  • Stickers for laptops 
  • Bumper stickers 
  • Locker design 
  • Mural design
  • Panther paws around building
  • Paw wall with each graduating class 
    • Each class designs their own paw
    • In hallway going to cafeteria (or in cafeteria)
    • Create a committee of students to design it and then talk to art teacher 
  • Slogan: Panther Pride 
• Senior Class Gifts at the end of the year 

March 2nd, 2021

1:00- 1:30

• Special Senior Activity 
  • Field at Mark Lane 
  • Six Flags
  • Yearbook Signing Day 
    • Yearbook in August
  • Commitment Day 
    • Decorating Cars 
      • Contest on Instagram? 
      • Amazon gift card for winner 
    • Social Media Tik Tok 
    • Chalk in Parking Spot/ Sidewalk
• PV Panthers Tshirt for Seniors 
• Elementary School Videos 
  • Add videos and upload to drive to send to Smith/ Meadowbrook
• Class Cause Week (April 5th- April 9th)
  • PSA
  • Virtual Event if we want to (scavenger hunt)
    • Pay to join scavenger hunt 
    • Goose Chase app 
    • Someone creates an account and then options for points and then people create teams and enter teams into Goose Chase then the teams have all week to complete and then the team with the most points wins a prize 
  • Decorate the front and back of school
• Instagram Takeovers with Different Sports 
• Flowers for Mothers Day 

February 23th, 2021

1:00- 1:30

• Instagram Compliments 
  • Try to get it ready for Thursday 
  • Julie is doing compliments and Evan is making the graphic to explain how it will work
• Yearbook 
  • Mask photos 
  • Essential workers – can be any grade 
• Valley Cup Event Ideas 
  • Virtual events
    • Trivia – kahoot
    • Virtual scavenger hunt (maybe a bitmoji classroom scavenger hunt) 
  • In person 
    • Goose Chase app – in person scavenger hunt 
    • Ping pong tournament 
    • Cornhole, frisbee, some type of outside activity when it gets warmer 
  • Gift card as a prize and portion of the gift card will go to JDRF 
• Commitment Day 
  • Students wear their school apparel on May 1st 
• Special Senior Activity 
  • Mascot Day- free t shirts 
  • Food Truck 
  • Outdoor Activities Day 
  • Breakfast
• Class Gift Idea 
  • Time Capsule 
• Reunion 
  • FB or other social media group chat to update classmates in the future 

February 18th, 2021

1:00- 1:30

• DJ
  • Mrs. C in contact with DJ- nothing left to do 
• Prom Dress GC
  • Make GC not council related- all details not confirmed 
• Yearbook 
  • Mask 
  • Tik tok
  • Spirit Days from last year 
  • Jersey pictures from first day 
  • Disposable pictures 
  • Essential Workers picture
• Instagram Compliments 
  • Question and answer box/ submit message 
  • Anonymously send compliment 
  • Evan makes good picture to explain 
  • Julie will upload each one 
• Elementary School Reading 
  • Pick up in jerome’s room
  • Schedule reading time with teacher 
  • Return book back to jerome’s room 
• Pascack Valley Olympics 
  • Talk to Delia Sutnick as a Valley Cup idea
  • 10 events 
    • Stack cup
    • Mario Kart

• St Patrick’s Day Valley Cup Idea 
  • last 10 minutes look for Mr Kennedy 
• Class Cause Week
  • Tentative Date for week 
    • PSA 
    • Fundraiser not required 
  • Decorate the halls for each color 
• Bulletin Board 
  • Send pictures to Elise 

February 9th, 2021

1:00- 1:30

• Prom
  • Prom FB gc for girls?
  • Covid tested Friday before? Permission slip to ensure people don’t go out the weekend before
  • Out of District Students?
    • Jerome emailing administrators for more info
• Yearbook Themes 
  • Matching color masks
  • Senior quote 
  • Pictures of cardboard cutouts fan section
  • What you did in quarantine 
  • Snow Day activities (skiing, sledding)
  • Halloween
  • Talent Shows 
  • Virtual Valley Cup 
  • People who went viral on tik tok
• DJ
  • Evan: DJ asked for more info 
  • Kiera: recommendations from IHA girls (DJ Magic Moments, DJ Kenny Fiesta)
• Cutouts
  • Sell again and send email to parents 
  • Group cutouts (split the costs)
  • Sign up for setup and cleanup
• Bulletin Board 
  • Order Walgreens: Elise 
  • Pick up and bring to school: Bridget 

February 2nd, 2021

12:15- 12:40

• Reading to Elementary Schools
  • Smith: record using Screen Cast and send it to them 
    • Complete by next week 
    • Figure out who is reading which book
• Prom 
  • DJ needed for prom 
  • Bridget: reach out to Hunter Donne’s dad 
• Senior Citizen’s Call
  • Encourage friends to sign up between 3-4 pm 
  • 9,10, 11- assign students to senior citizens using Google sheets
  • Assign people on Friday and send out another email on Monday to senior students 
• Yearbook Idea Themes 
  • Ask students to submit pictures in the snow 
  • Send google form of possible themes? Or Instagram DM 
    • What is popular during our year (virtual school?)
    • Notorious teacher lines 
    • Tik Tok Trends 
    • Snow Day 
    • Senior Quotes 
• Cutouts 
  • 15 cutouts 

January 26, 2021

1:00 – 1:30 

• Cardboard Cutouts 
  • Game is too close so it won’t work out 
  • Maybe wait for a different game to start selling them 
• Senior Citizens Call 
  • Hillsdale House: management said they would email or call Elise but they did not follow up – call again
  • RV Jewish Center: Evan couldn’t reach the house and left voicemails – call again
  • American Legion: Thomas emailed and they want a list of questions – they have a lot of people that want to participate 
  • Thomas – making a doc of a list of questions to ask the senior citizens 
  • Julie – reaching out to RV home
• Elementary School Reading 
  • Want to get more students involved – maybe email other kids to see if they would want to be read a book 
  • Anne Blanch – Elise
    • Would love to participate 
    • Find list of books online
    • Make online bank – record us reading and they will give the videos to the teachers who would want them 
    • Elise – email if they want a video or audio recording 
  • Woodside – Talia
    • Need more info but they are interested 
    • Make a bank of books like we did for Anne Blanch 
  • Roberge – Julie 
    • Said they will be in contact with Julie 
    • See if they would want us to make a bank of books like we did for Anne Blanch 
• Senior Class Unity 
  • Try to plan an event or something to unite the senior class together 
    • Maybe before the end of the year 
      • Senior gives a gift to a senior → sign up 
      • Food trucks? 
      • Socially distanced with masks outside 
    • College commitment day event? 
  • Maybe make senior yearbook signing an event 
  • School spirit → teachers and students wear PV clothes

January 19th, 2021

1:00-1:20

• Senior Citizens Call
  • RV Jewish Center: Evan meet with them or call again
  • Hillsdale House: call again 
  • American Legion: they said they will get back to Thomas
  • Update spreadsheet with senior citizens- Keep in order of days 
  • Aiden create form for students for availability
• Elementary School Reading 
  • Smith: in contact with principal, set it up, teachers reply- follow up, or pre recorded video 
  • Roberge: specific book needed, students involved, number of classes 
  • Meadowbrook: in contact 

• Cardboard Cutouts 
  • Fan Night 
  • Send out Google Form- open up to parents, students, and faculty 
• MLK Day 
  •  Made over 100- venmo to Kiera to Venmo Jerome

January 12th, 2021

1:00-1:25

• Mascot 
  • Lions, hawks, vipers, jaspers
• Senior-to-Senior Phone Call
  • RV Jewish Center: waiting for approval 
  • American Legion: have a list by january 22nd
  • Hillsdale House: pass onto management, give call or email soon, have people come into to set up phone, figure out what residents want to be called 
  • Patty Hughes: getting a list of interested people 
    • Make a google form for students to sign up 
    • Create spreadsheet to organize which student is calling on which date 
    • Spreadsheet: Senior citizen, name, phone number, student assigned
    • Other classes are interested in participating 
• Cardboard Cut Out 
  • Sports starting
    • line the top row of bleachers
    • Fan Night?- choose one night for each sport to space them out 
    • Talk to Buchanan about the logistics 
  • $23 to make- charge $25
  • 5 business days to create them 
  • Honor essential workers in our class
    • Get list of kids who volunteer in healthcare, food store
  • Parents section and student section ($30 for parents, $25 for students)
• MLK Day 
  • Put people on Instagram Story and use Venmo to donate the money to a community organization
    • Organization/ Small Business
  • Read a book to elementary school kids over Zoom or Google Meet (guest reader)
    • Julie: Roberge 
    • Elise: Smith 
    • Talia: Woodside
    • Kiera: Meadowbrook
    • Evan: design Instagram story 

January 5th, 2021

1:00-1:25

• Music in hallways 
  • Lots of students and teachers loved it 
• Bulletin Board 
  • Waiting to see if we are remote or not
  • Need pictures and decorations 
• Martin Luther King Day 
• Valentine’s Day 
  • Carnation sales have been successful previously
  • Pick up or drive-thru as a way to give the carnations? 
  • Back up plan: if we don’t sell enough, we can make a bouquet and give them to parents, teachers, health care workers, or students who internship at a healthcare facility 
  • Cards for the senior community 

• “Seniors Adopt a Senior” phone call 
  • The week before Valentine’s Day (Feb 9,10, 11) between after 3-4 pm 
  • Sign up for interest and we give the name and number of a person
  • Ask for availability with a certain window of time 
  • Call Hillsdale House, Rivervale Jewish Home, or American Legion to ask for a connection with students
    • Thomas- American Legion
    • Evan- Rivervale Jewish Home 
    • Elise- Hillsdale House 
  • Pair up students who speak different languages to speak with seniors who don’t speak English 
  • Ask Buchanan for a Senior Citizen list 
  • Give the senior class a blurb of what to start with or a list of questions to go off of

• Class Cause Involvement 
  • Maybe do a JDRF fundraiser on Instagram 
• Senior Class Picture 
  • Send pictures in and make a collage 
• Time Capsule 
  • Each student gets a bag and you can fill it with pictures and a letter 
  • Open at a future high school reunion 

December 15th, 2020

1:00-1:25

• Candy Gram 
  • Buy supplies over the weekend and drop off at Kiera’s
  • Keep selling until Thursday  
  • Hand out in school next week
    • Kiera hand out during period 8 (Cohort A- Wednesday)
    • Aiden hand out during period 4 (Cohort B- Tuesday)
    • Julie deliver the remote 
• Hillsdale Food Pantry Donation 
  • Helping Hand Food Pantry 
    • Send check or Shoprite GC
    • Use venmo (Julie) or drop off at address 
• Instagram Contest
  • Exec. Valley Cup
  • Snowday: snowman contest 
    • Dunkin GC- $5 for the winner (Jerome will buy and email to the winner)
• Valley Committed 2020 Instagram 
  • Kiera and Evan 
• Promote Holiday Concert on Social Media 
  • Make Instagram story or Twitter post
• Music in Hallways 
  • Thursday and Friday (play the same 3-4 songs in between periods) 
  • Leave a few minutes before class and go to office to play the song 

December 8th, 2020

1:00-1:25

• Instagram Posts 
  • Canva app 
  • Voting on Winter Break 
  • Prize $5-10 Dunkin GC
    • Julie contacting Dunkin about donation
• Ugly Sweater Contest 
  • Entry is Venmo donation
  • People post and we tag them on insta story 
  • Challenge other grades to ugly sweater contest (choose a winner from one grade and vote)

• Candy Grams 
  • Swiss Miss and marshmallows package with little note
  • Elise made Google Form ($3 each) 
  • Donate the money to 
  • Collect orders until next tuesday/wednesday and then buy supplies 
    • Bridget: marshmallows
    • Talia: hot cocoa mix 
    • Elise: assembly 
    • Aiden: candy canes 
    • Kiera: send out google form 
  • If people received candy gram they pick up at certain time in front of school 
• Luminary Sale 
  • Order and place around the school to light it up at night 
    • Sand or rocks to weigh them down 
    • Organize and set up on December 23rd 
  • Donate the proceeds to PV hospital or sponsor lunch for teachers/custodial staff/ front line workers 
  • Get other grades on board and they would use their own venmos 

December 1st, 2020

1:00-1:25

• Hallway Decorations 
  • Exec planning on the fundraiser 

• Music over Loudspeaker 
  • Email GD with a more concise plan 
• Candy Grams 
  • Elise order candy canes 
  • 18th last day to order 
  • Hand out on the 22 and 23 of December 
    • If virtual: maybe send a virtual email note 
      • Or drop off at houses 
• Holiday 
  • Instagram Story Tournament: 
    • Favorite Holiday Movie
    • Holiday Decoration Challenge 
    • Pet Costume
    • Ugly Holiday Sweaters 
    • Gingerbread Houses  
    • Cookie Contest  
    • Snowman Building 
  • Countdown to Winter Break 
• Car Parade 
  • Drive-By with the Candy Grams (?)
  • Social Distanced gathering from car 
  • Julie asks GD for car parade 
  • Drive Through Donations for Holiday Season 
    • Venmo $5 to fund dinner for nurses 
• Hot Chocolate Kit Fundraiser 
  • Mason Jar

November 24th, 2020

1:00-1:25

• Council Bulletin Board 
• Apparel Pick-Up
  • When we come back 

• Hallway Decoration Contest 
  • Evan in contact with Delia Sutnick 

• Candy-Gram 
  • Holiday season- order off Amazon 
  • Venmo Kiera and fill out Google Form 
  • Fully-remote: drop off 
• 25 Days of Holiday Break 
  • Ginger-bread houses
  • Ugly Sweaters 
  • What are you doing over holiday break 
  • All on Instagram Story 
• Instagram Story Takeovers with showing other aspects of PV

• Dedicating songs to people over the loudspeaker 
• Unity across councils 
  • Support councils in their fundraising 
• Prom Update
  • June 8th at the Rockleigh outdoors

November 17th, 2020

1:00-1:30

• Thanksgiving Cards 
  • Due Date: Friday/ Cards Sent: Monday
  • Aiden made google form and Evan and Ava writing cards 
  • Julie writing an email to be sent to the school 
• Hallway Decorations 
  • Month of December- talk to exec 
  • Stay away from religions- Winter Wonderland theme
  • Assigned theme per grade- movie, cities (?)
  • Each team should submit a proposal to Pollinger before starting
  • Cohort A and B teams stay after school to work on it 
  • Bring in PVTV or Instagram Takeover 

• Wreath Fundraiser 
  • Buy in bulk and pick up 
  • Handling money- using gloves 
• Hot Chocolate 
  • Sell when people leave school 

• Candy Gram 
  • Candy Cane sale and hand out during the school day 
• Ice Skating Fundraiser (?)
  • Van Saun Winter Wonderland outside 

• Prom Update 
  • Still have Sheridan 
  • Rockleigh- June 8th or the 15th (outside) 
  • Still have to hear from then about Friday (11th)
  • Split the cost with the juniors
  • Try calling Pearl River Hilton or Marriot about Friday in June before June 16th or last Friday in May

November 10th, 2020

1:00-1:25

• 15 people with clothing leftover- Elise will send out emails to people 
• Rockleigh Prom Venue- Friday in June 
  • 300 people, outside, first 2 weeks of June, potential rain date (?)
  • Same deal with PV class of 2020
• Ways to promote school spirit at Valley Cup 
  • Some incentive for adults to dress up
• Friendsgiving Post Cards 
  • Use google form to be more organized
    • Then handwrite each one 
  • We have a stamp machine – don’t need to buy them 
    • Confirm with the office if we are sending from school 
  • Postcard stamp is 35 cents 
  • $3 per postcard 
  • Aiden making Google Form 
  • Kiera will order the postcards today 

• Buy tickets to play (Talia)
  • Promote on Instagram and Twitter 
• Hallway decorations (Julie)
  • Talk at big council meeting this Friday 

• Fundraiser- faces printed out on poster for in the crowd 
  • Winter sports
  • Logistics of who would set them up and put them away 

• Wreath Fundraiser 
• Week of thanksgiving- something to do in the building (megaphone about what we are grateful for)

November 3rd, 2020

7:45-8:20 

• Fundraisers with Venmo account 
  • Mr cupcakes or hold my knots
• Weekly Meetings on Tuesday mornings at 7:45
• Cohort A and B need to pick up clothes for one more day 
• Have a tentative date for indoor prom at Sheridan
  • Will get 100% refunded (possibly of non-refundable)
• Alternate idea: outdoor prom and rent everything- held at the school 
• Yearbook ideas (Christmas, other holidays)
• Candy gram for Thanksgiving (?)
  • Mailing it around town – make sure it goes out before the Friday before 
  • Blank postcards (decorate your own) or already made on Etsy 

• 12 Days of Christmas 
  • One day dress up
• Hallway decorating contest 
  • Lockers for Thanksgiving – give people a number (Thursday and Friday before Thanksgiving)
  • Whole Hallways for Holiday Season (competition with causes?)

• TEEEM Lakoda Clothing Drive and NHS Food Drive → promote on social media (tagging people)
• Promote wearing masks on social media (Instagram and Twitter)