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Harbor Exchange-High School

2009 PASC District #3 Conference

North Allegheny Senior High School

Best Student Council Activity

✓ Dance-A-Thon-A six hour dance marathon where each hour is a different theme (50’s, disco, etc.) and all profits go to the PASC State Charity (North Allegheny Intermediate High School)

✓ Children’s Hospital Auction-auction things off in order to raise money for Children’s Hospital (Avonworth High School)

✓ Secret Santa for the teachers

✓ Breakfast with Santa for students in the elementary school

✓ Man of the Year Award

✓ Mr. Casanova-a “beauty pageant” for the males in the school (Kittanning High School)

✓ Stealing Hearts-girls will get paper hearts with their name on them. They are only allowed to talk to boys in class. If they talk to boys outside of the class, they must give them a heart. The guy with the most hearts at the end of the day wins. (Avonworth High School)

✓ Senior Auction-auction off people (Northgate High School)

✓ Senior Appreciation Day-Bethal Park

✓ Teacher versus Student sports games (baseball, dodgeball, volleyball)

✓ Battle of the Bands-invite all of the student led bands at your school to perform on a Friday night. The students that attend vote for their favorite band with money. The band that made the most money wins, and all of the money raised goes to a charity. (North Allegheny Intermediate)

✓ Mini-thon for 4 Diamonds Fund-hold mini dance marathons at your school to support Penn States’ 4 Diamonds Fund and the PASC State Charity

✓ Stop the Bop-play a certain song in between each period and at the lunches. In order for the music to stop playing, there must be a certain amount of money raised.

✓ Sumo Wrestling-Pine Richland

✓ Auction of a staff parking space for a week-students bid to get a teacher’s parking space for a week and the student who bids the most wins

✓ Cherry Blossom Festival-clubs and organizations at your school buy booth and sell food, games, or costumes. It is open to the community.

✓ Ice Cream Social on Halloween with costumes-Connellsville Area High School

✓ Mr. Wild Cat talent sow for boys-Kittanning High School

Best School Spirit Activity

✓ Write every student’s name on a snowman and hang throughout the halls (could use hearts for Valentine’s Day, pumpkins for Halloween)

✓ Spirit Busses to away football games (North Allegheny)

✓ Student Section at sporting events

✓ Dress like your favorite teacher day

✓ Ideas for spirit week:

• PJ Day

• Teacher Day

• Crazy Sock Day

• Bad Hair Day

• Hat Day

• Twin Day

• School color day

• Cross Dress Day

• Spirit Jeans

✓ Senior Slave Day-Bethal Park

✓ Student Versus Teacher competitions (softball, volleyball, dodgeball, kickball)

✓ Pickle Ball Tournament (Pine Richland)

✓ Frozen T-Shirt Contest-(South Fayette)

✓ Sweater Fest-everyone wears sweaters all week (North Allegheny)

✓ Pie in the face auction at sporting events-Bishop Canevin

✓ Door decorating contest between all homerooms or between all of the clubs and organizations

✓ Dress Down Days-for schools in uniform, allow students to wear clothes other than the school uniform

✓ 3 Day Event-bonfire/concert/carnival (Pine Richland)

✓ Musical Chairs in the cafeteria

✓ Food Drive leading up to a rival game

✓ Carnival after finals

✓ Mr. (Your School Name Here)-Mr. Pine Richland

✓ Data Match-North Allegheny

✓ Candy Cane Grams, hugs and kisses grams (West Mifflin)

Best Way to Recognize Students

✓ Post student and athlete of the month on school website-Elizabeth Forward School District

✓ Birthday board in school foyer

✓ Just Do it Awards-Avonworth High School

✓ Raffle for coming to school of time-Kittanning High School

✓ Post the names in the hall or on the website of students who have made the honor roll

✓ Leadership Breakfast-invite all student leaders to breakfast (Student Leadership Recognition Program)

✓ Bulletin board for seniors that shows the colleges that will be going the following year

✓ Locker Decorations

✓ Ceremony for scholarships at the end of the year/Achievement Assembly

✓ Culture Fashion Shows

✓ Student of the week/month/year

✓ Ideas for awards to give out:

• Most outgoing

• Most helpful

• Most organized

Best Dance Theme

✓ Decades: 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

✓ Willy Wonka

✓ Jungle

✓ Halloween

✓ King of Heart/Sadie Hawkins/MORP

✓ Glow in the Dark Dance

✓ Marti Gras

✓ Black and White

✓ Candyland

✓ Monopoly

✓ Secret Garden

✓ Glow in the Snow

✓ Masquerade

✓ Beach

✓ Hollywood

✓ Luau

✓ Disney World Park Themes

✓ Red Carpet Night

✓ Circus

✓ Pittsburgh

✓ Barn Dance

✓ Casual

✓ Space Theme (moon, stars, planets)

✓ Freaky Friday

✓ Seasons (winter, spring, summer, fall)

✓ Titanic

✓ Blast from the Past

✓ Las Vegas

✓ Movies

✓ Under the Sea

✓ Around the World

Best Ways to Recognize the Staff

✓ Coffee House Night

✓ Students took the new principal out for lunch

✓ Apples for the teacher

✓ Teacher Appreciation Week

✓ Secret Santa with the teachers

✓ Teachers dress up for Halloween and the students vote for the best dressed teacher

✓ Teacher of the Month

✓ Car Wash Day

✓ Pep rally for a new principal

✓ Staff Barbecue

✓ Staff Dodgeball game

✓ Welcome luncheon to new staff members

✓ Carnations for teachers (Valentine’s Day Activity)

✓ Lucky Leprechauns-teachers dress up as leprechauns

Ideas to work with School Administration

✓ Student Advocacy groups and meetings with the principal-different students have lunch meetings and talk directly with staff and administrators

✓ Key Communicators (parents and students)

✓ Luncheons with the principal

✓ Suggestion boxes placed in high traffic areas (main office, library)

✓ Student Representatives to the School Board (North Allegheny)

✓ Principal’s Advisory Committee

✓ Council with members from all activities talk to administration

✓ Meetings/Luncheons/Breakfasts with the superintendent

✓ Student Council officer meeting with the principal

✓ Superintendent Key Communicators

Most successful fundraiser

✓ Data Match Survey-students are matched up with other students based on a compatibility survey

✓ Dance-A-Thon-North Allegheny Intermediate

✓ Mr. Casanova/Male Talent Shows

✓ Candy Grams-West Mifflin

✓ Coat Drives-Gateway High School

✓ Ducky Races-West Mifflin

✓ Student/Faculty Dodgeball Tournament

✓ Stop the Bop (music played over and over again and students and staff need to donate money to stop the music. Once the goal has been reached, the music is stopped)

✓ Out of Class events (movie in the auditorium, dodgeball tournaments)

✓ Talent Show

✓ Senior Auction

✓ Fashion Show

✓ Unicef

✓ Children’s Hospital Auction

✓ Facial Hair February

✓ Class T-Shirt Sales

✓ Halloween Haunted House

✓ Pickleball Tournament

✓ Penny Wars

✓ Parking lot auction

Most Rewarding Service Projects

✓ Trash pick up throughout the park

✓ Santa Stocking-donate gifts to needy children

✓ Camp Sunshine-help the older mentally challenged

✓ Harms Way 4 Kids-make bracelets for soldiers overseas (North Allegheny)

✓ Care packages for troops-Connellsville

✓ Salvation Army-Connellsville

✓ Special Olympics

✓ Coat Drive/back pack drive

✓ Canned food drive

✓ Walk-A-Thons

✓ Relay for life

✓ Recycling projects

✓ Christmas Caroling at nursing homes and hospitals

✓ Toys for Tots-project stuff a bus through 96.1 Kiss FM (Pine Richland)

✓ Amphitheater movie night for the entire community

Ideas to keep your council organized

✓ -register all student council members and cell phone numbers. Send text out for alerts for your meetings and events (Avonworth High School)

✓ Every committee chair must maintain a binder

✓ Email system

✓ Facebook groups

✓ Agendas

✓ Website

✓ Breakout sessions once or twice per month

✓ Student Council office

✓ Point system with incentives

✓ File cabinets

✓ Mailboxes

✓ Morning announcements

✓ Council homerooms

✓ Officer meeting the day before a council meeting

✓ Publicity committee

✓ Massive dry erase calendar

✓ Jump drive for each officer

✓ Newsletter

Icebreakers

✓ Screaming Ninjas

✓ Pony

✓ MILK

✓ WAHHHH

✓ Beaver Song

✓ People to People

✓ Shake Your Booty

✓ What do you feel?????

✓ We live in PASC and we live in a hut...

✓ Chop Chop Saw

✓ Gimme 1

✓ Zip Zap Zop

✓ Put paper on your back and write nice things about everyone

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