Student Council 2008!

In comparison to the previous years when the Student Council was only conformed by fifth formes, our school’s student council 2008 has changed a lot .The main objective is to make all the students at school take part in it in all aspects-from taking decisions to collaborating in activities.It is also important to create a new atmosphere at school,in which we all know each other and have a great time together-what in my opinion is essential considering we spend seven and a half hours each day at school.And as Ignacio Veron one of the authors of this change who is also the ex president says:
”There’s no change if a few people believe in something different,but if there is a group of people with different opinions and way of thinking working together for something they believe is possible.When this happens we can say that the Project begins...
Why begins?because this Project was thought without an ending.The principal objective is that all the people who take part in it can reach it.For making it possible we need constant renovation of ideas,activities,etc.
We must be protagonists of this change.What this proyect needs is that all the people that take part in it be able to give their personal opinion and have the ability to make these ideas come true.While doing this we can say the project is growing and later as a result we have the project which belongs to everyone...”
He talks about the neccesity of constant renovation and we can see this is happening,Ignacio used to be the president and now Eli is doing that job the same as Guillermo Cáceres who wasn’t part of the Counsil and took Tomás Casanova’s place as publicity secretary.And like this there are more changes taking part all the time.
Last year the school council 2008 organized some great activities for the holidays so we all enjoyed some time together with teachers acting as students and students acting as teachers,games,conversations and dancing. The same as Columbus Day in which a competition of different country stands was organized and we decorated classrooms representing the culture and students acted as native people.And the final activity was the overnight camping at school,close to the end of school to which all the students were invited and atended at least eighty .We stayed up late that night we spent the time acting in skits,chatting and playing games.We all had a great time.In my opinión,these activities were very useful to meet students from all the grades,to show we are all students of the same school and we can have a lot of fun together.
In lots of schools students know each other from the first to the last form only because of the fact of studying in the same institution and this makes the school change a lot,which you can see just by talking to children.And this is what we are looking foward to, we want every student to have a good time atending Saint Patrick’s School.Continuing with activities like the ones we did last year would in my opinion help the Project a lot.The school is also helping-may be without knowing it-by the change they did whith the gym classes that used to be one for each form and now all polimodal has classes together in three different groups acording to the sport each student wants to learn.This new methodology is great because at the same time of having class you can meet students from other forms and the classes are better too!
Talking to Eli Chaila and Javier Merlini they told me how excited they are whith their new jobs as president and vice-president respectively...
"We are really happy because of the great challenge we have in front of us.It is a great responsability but at the same time we now we are not alone in this,there is a lot of people working at this and this makes everything easyer.And other thing that helps us a lot is the fact that we can notice every day,in every reces, all the changes at school since last year when the project began"
This year the Council has set the bar higher.Ignacio emphasized the team spirit of the group.”As we all work together students of all grades will be in charge of organizing Internal Week.This way we want to have a Week in which everybody has a great time”.In my opinion this change of the Student Council was a great idea and it is going very well,we can see lots of changes and huge ones!.We must continue with all the energy we have put in so far!
What do you think about it?Do you have any idea?Let us know!Get involved.Your contribution is important!