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

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)