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STC COLLEGE COUNCIL REPORT 2011
Wow, what a year; intense to say the least. That's all I shall say about you-know-what.
A lot has gone on this year, so we'll start at the start. To begin with, the school lockers were sorted. I had never realized how many lockers our school had until it came to accounting for each off them and allocating them to members of the school. As promised by my predecessor, John Strang, two vans were bought this year and have been used frequently by sports teams. As there was no workday this year due to large amounts of school time being taken away, alternative fundraising was sought. A mufti day, cake raffle and jelly bean jar were attempted. Two jars and 1300 hundred jellybeans later, the prize was handed out and the student council collectively decided that jellybean jars were one of the more inefficient fundraising options available!
The ideas we generated were plentiful, but either undoable or quashed by 8934 interruptions. Some of the ideas were:
- Bruce Challenge ideas (given to house leaders)
- Extra cover for wet days (already covered by new building plans)
- New quad design (architect already drawing up plans, we contributed ideas)
- Interschool water fight between STC and CCC (awesome but too many issues)
- Bringing water to school for those without (already sorted)
- Changing school times (already considered by senior management, Josh Rich instrumental with petition drawn up and multiple ideas put forward)
- STC day fair and quiz ideas (STC Day greatly shortened due to having half a day available)...but watch out next year as the idea could hatch...
- After-school form activities (staff stretched to the max already due to lack of time)
The list was endless. School dances were organized by Jermaine Te Kawa, as he has the instinct required to organize a great night. One thing that did go ahead was the Interschool Mass, held at Villa Maria College. A huge thanks to all who helped out with that, organizing a mass is a bigger undertaking than one might think.
At the end of all of it, I have maximum respect to all the guys who gave up the only break of their days to contribute ideas to make a change, the majority of them weren't elected but rather chose themselves to give up their time and help out. With such great guys at school willing to make a change I can see that the school has a great future ahead of it.
To next year's students and change-instigators: Start early, work hard and don't try to fundraise using a jelly-bean jar.
To all staff: thank you, students are a lot more grateful than we may seem; you deserve much more gratitude than you are shown and your efforts this year were Herculean.
To parents: You are also all machines; I'm not going to pretend I understand how you do it.
Best of luck to next year's students, staff and teachers!
God Bless, Connor Eatwell