Student Council

• Student Council is an active and important part of each school day at Our Lady of Grace!
• Once an academic year begins, new officers prepare a Student Council activity calendar for the entire school year together.
• All student activities are planned with permission from the moderator and principal.
• Each of the fifteen officers are responsible for various important school duties designated for each Student Council position.  
• The council officers meet once a week during lunch time to discuss and review student activities.
• The class representatives meet once a month with the officers and report back to their classes about all upcoming activities.
• The council plans, promotes, and presents a variety of fundraising activities throughout the entire school year.
• These activities include monthly bake sales, a candy cane sale, Christmas raffle, Valentine grams sale, Easter raffle, and more.
• Officers stand alongside school administrators to help present weekly Monday morning assemblies to students and their parents.   
• Officers broadcast daily important announcements to the entire school each morning via the public address system.   
• The four main officers are often called upon to be masters of ceremonies at important assemblies and several other school events.
• After leaving Our Lady of Grace School, many former Student Council officers go on to become leaders in high school and beyond!

 A summary of the Student Council election process: 

• Students are eligible to become Class Representatives beginning in grade 1, continuing through grade 8.
• Classroom Representative elections are held at the beginning of each school year.
• Two students from each class (grades 1 through 8) are elected by their fellow classmates to become class representatives.
• Students may run for student body offices while they are in grades 6 or 7 (to become officers for grades 7 and 8).
• Students must be in grade 7 to run for the four main Student Council officer positions and will hold those offices in grade 8.
• The four main officer positions are president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer.
• Students request to run for office by submitting a "Petition to Run for Student Council Officer" form to Mrs. Baker.
• Student Council officer elections are held in May of each year (to take office the following September). 
• There is a one week campaign period for all students running for office.  Campaign week at Our Lady of Grace School is a very exciting time!
• Students running for office create colorful and inventive campaign posters to display in the hallways and select "managers" to help campaign.
• Students running for office must present a one to three minute speech at a special election assembly at the end of campaign week in May.
• All students in grades 1 through 8 cast their ballots in their classrooms directly after the election assembly. 
• The new Student Council officers are announced in the afternoon on election day. 
• A special inauguration assembly is held the week after the new student council officers are elected. 
• All newly elected main officers give inaugural speeches and the outgoing officers present farewell addresses at the assembly. 
• A reception is held immediately after the inauguration to honor our outgoing student council officers and welcome our new ones.