Leadership
What We Do
We work together for an hour everyday to identify and discuss things that we as a group could help to improve in our school, or community. We have a group assigned to community service so we can have specific people help to identify things that we could do. We also have a group assigned to drives to help with the same thing for drives that we could do to help people.
Drives
We are hoping to have a drive every quarter. We were hoping to have a coat/blanket drive, a coin drive, a toy/food drive, and a book drive.
Current Events
Outdoor Classroom
The outdoor classroom is an area between the sixth and seventh grade halls. The area is going to be used for science classes to observe the plants and learn about nature, art for inspiration and also to learn about nature and be able to capture it in their artwork or even just for a calm surrounding, all teachers that want to go outdoors for their classroom learning experience, and even for the community who walks on the paths of WMS or parents and guests to come to watch a soccer game or for any outdoor activities at WMS . Leadership is helping to choose plant and layout design. We have gone on a field trip to The San Fransisco Street Bakery to observe the newly created garden area for inspiration and ideas. We have come up with a list of plants and are in the process of finding information on the different plants to see how they would do in our climate and classroom area. Mrs. Ruth, mother of Nelson Ruth, has been our guide through out our advancement in the planning process. She has shown us different designs, plants, and how to get started on creating our outdoor garden. Not to mention all of the other adults who have been helping the whole way through.
More recently, the class and any other students who volunteered have planted most of the plants that we ordered and were given to us. We took time from our weekends to come out and dig, plant, separate and mulch the areas. The garden has transformed so much in the past two weeks and it is close to being finished. Everyone helped greatly and we thank all of you who came out to make our garden one step closer to an outdoor classroom.
The outdoor garden is now full of plants and looking great!!!!!
Environmentally Friendly
Leadership class has been making a huge effort and spending lots of time talking about and doing different things to help make WMS a greener school. We have added recycle bins that students may put empty bottles in. We also have a large counter in our cafeteria that has separate bins that are there for cans, milk cartons, bottles, and a sink that you may pour your milk in if not finished. Recycle posters have been put up all around the school and recycling education is starting to be taught to students. We are working very hard to make sure students are aware of the issues and know about all the actions we as a school can take to make the world a better place starting with Washington Middle School.
This is a cool video that we watched in leadership breaking down the process of "stuff".
Planning The Year
We are currently working on proposals to be sent to the administration and the booster club. Some of our ideas include a movie night, a cook-off, and a spelling bee, the movie night is going to the booster club for approval for supplies and people. The spelling bee and cook-off are still in the Events Commitee.
Groups
We recently got groups to work in so that the jobs for each category are spread out. Our groups consist of:
- WMS Events
- Publicity
- Web Site
- Diversity
- Community Service
- Drives
Plans in Progress
New Dances
As you may know WMS has activity afternoons (dances). Before they were at night on Fridays. Now they take place right after school. Many students at WMS were unhappy about the new idea and wanted to know why they changed the time of the dances. Parks and Recreation funds out activity nights and all WMS does is provide the place. Since we have ASB funds, two ASB officers found out how to put on our own dances. They have come up with the prices and date. We hope to have more night dances this year.
We've been brainstorming ideas about dance themes.
WMS Blog or Student Area
Students in leadership class have come up with the idea to open a new WMS blog on the WMS website. We are hoping that this will be a forum where students can chat about school related issues. We are working on getting a filter for it so that the blog can not be used inappropriately. Kevin Hoonan is helping us with getting started. This will be the project of a group of the leadership students for the next couple of weeks and we will be notifying the students about the site as soon as we get it started up. We will informing them of the rules, uses and consequences if they do not follow the rules.
Contact Us
If you have ideas:
You can share ideas to your ASB representative to share with the officers at the ASB meetings.
Mrs Chandler:
(360)-596-3040
schandler@osd.wednet.edu