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)
- Sports starting
- 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
- Put people on Instagram Story and use Venmo to donate the money to a community organization
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
- Helping Hand Food Pantry
- 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
- Order and place around the school to light it up at night
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
- If virtual: maybe send a virtual email note
- 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
- Instagram Story Tournament:
- 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
- Use google form to be more organized
- 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)