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Ithaca Creek State School’s
Student Council
Ithaca Creek State School’s Student Council has been working together this year to support
student events and initiatives. The Student Council consists of two representatives from each
4/3 and 6/5 class, in addition to our Year 6 School Leaders and Miss Ramsden. The student
representatives were elected by their classes in Term 1 to take on this important position.
The role of the Student Council is to represent the voice of the students at Ithaca Creek State
School and to arrange student events such as fundraisers and discos. The council meets on
a Tuesday, at second break, to discuss various issues around the school or upcoming events.
During the year, Student Council has run three fundraisers, all raised lots of money and were
supported well by the students at Ithaca Creek. In first term the student council raised money
for the Australian Redcross Cyclone Pam Vanuatu appeal. We raised $604 for this worthy cause,
through a free dress day in which students were invited to dress as their favourite hobby. In
term two we held a pyjama day, in which students and teachers wore their pyjama’s to school,
to raise money for the Cancer Council. We raised $553. In term four, we participated in the ‘Day
for Daniel’ initiative, in which students wore red to school to raise awareness of child safety and
protection. The students of Ithaca raised $510 for the Daniel Morecombe Foundation.
Each fundraising event kept us very busy. We made posters to hang around the school, spoke
to all of the classes, prepared and presented messages to the student body on assembly and
organised the collection and counting of the money raised. The members of student council
are proud to have helped organise these fundraising events at school and hope that we have
made a difference in our community.
In addition, the Student Council also hosted
two student discos this year, in Terms 1 and
3, to raise money for student initiatives at
school. The Term 1 disco theme was “eras” in
which students dressed in clothes from their
favourite era, e.g. 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. The theme
for the Term 3 disco was “Crazy Science”. This
disco took place on the same night as our
school Art Soiree event, ARTology. Both disco
evenings were well supported, with students
coming dressed up and ready to have fun
with their friends!
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