Worked collaboratively with others: Service and Creativity (Student Council)

Student council has had much success since the beginning of the year. It has been rather an exhaustive job every week as co-president I probably have around 3 or 4 lunch time meetings. However it has been rewarding having been able to finally secure a budget for the student council!!! It will be of around 2,000chf for the student council, which I have been pushing since my time as Student council treasurer in 10^th grade.   

This has been a major milestone as student council has never openly managed to secure a budget and I hope to start a tradition of budget transparency with the student body as the year goes on. We have also managed to set up and run Events, Sports and Tech committees of which students can join to help develop different areas of their own personal interest. I am very proud of the participation levels and look forward to seeing them maintain momentum throughout the school year.

 After a difficult start to the year trying to hurry on the elections of each grade for their representatives we had our first full attendence meeting the week before break which was quite successful. I hope that throughout the year our representatives attend weekly.

I brought in the events committee to help me plan a halloween party for the 6th and 7th grade. It was particularly difficult to put on due to the fact there was also another event on for the primary school and so we had to split decorations. This was quite a headache for me as I wound up doing a lot of the preperation by myself. I have found since becoming president that I have a difficulty with delegating tasks, tending to take on the brunt of the work myself. I hope to improve on delegating throughout the rest of my presidency. 

Below are pictures of the budget report and the halloween dance for grades 6 and 7.

I had hoped that we would also be able to put on another Halloween event for the upper school however due to lack of interest in many of the ideas aired we couldn't get the project off the ground. Hopefully in the coming year we will be able to put on more dances as the 6th and 7th grade dance was such a success. Clean up took ages and I ended up being at school until 11pm but I am really pleased with the result of the dance. Hours of planning and worrying had paid off.