Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf. Student Parliament Members and Summary

"Student Parliament"

Prime Minister- Marnie Lynne

Deputy Prime Minister- Mellissa Ann

Secretary- Carey Kaufmann

Sports/Social Director- Adam Matthew and Alexis Christina

Grade 12/OAC Representative- Darren James

Grade 11 Representative- Eric

Grade 10 Representative- Adam

Grade 9 Representative- Nakia and Chantal Love

Prep Year Representative- Max

Teacher Advisor- Kerry Ann

Residence Advisor- Ann Kathleen

Prime Minister’s Message

Greetings!

The past two years as Prime Minister have been a great experience for me. This year with few new members, we’ve succeeded with all of the events that we’ve hosted such as Hallowe’en and Christmas Dances, and our theme "Opposite Sex" Day, when the girls dressed up as boys, and the boys dressed up as girls. We’ve also donated $110.00 to the Christmas Sharing Program.

Our Hallowe’en Dance was hosted on Thursday, October 31^st. Just before the dance, there was a haunted house in the basement of Sir James Whitney main building with great decorations, scary looking characters and lights effects which was arranged by the Grade 12/OAC Leadership Class. After the high school students went through the haunted house, the dance, traditionally, took place in the auditorium with great disco lights, coloured lights, and two enormous speakers for us to feel the music. During the dance we had some games, prizes, free snacks such as chips, juices, vegetables with dip and cake. We also sold pop during the dance.

On Thursday, December 5^th, we hosted the Christmas Dance in the auditorium like the Hallowe’en Dance, but we had a whole town of Christmas lights filling the auditorium, and great handmade decorations filled the auditorium with Christmas Spirit. At the end of the dance we gave out free stuffed animals to everyone. A VERY SPECIAL thanks to Max’s grandfather for donating the stuffed animals.

With our fund raising from the Christmas Dance we donated $110.00 to two poor families in the Belleville area for Christmas Sharing Program. With the money we brought presents such as Christmas stockings, shampoos, soap, body lotion, face wash, shaving cream, shaving razors, gift certificates from the Quite Mall, candles, potpourri and lots of toys for the little ones in the families.

We, the Student Parliament members, tend to host spirit days/weeks, host dances on most of the holiday events, and help the school to make it to be a healthy happy family. All of those events we’ve hosted since Fall were very successful and we are looking toward to many other events in the future such as Winter Carnival, more fund raising and dances! Have a great year!

Marnie Lynne