Winters High School Student Council is a group of volunteer students working together with an adult advisor to provide a means for student expression and assistance in school affairs and activities. Student Council gives opportunities for student experience in leadership and encourages student/faculty/community relations.
Through projects and activities, WHS Student Council works to:
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Promote Citizenship
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By involving students in meaningful, purpose-oriented activities
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By leading each individual in developing a sense of personal responsibility and earned self respect
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By encouraging desirable attitudes and continuous upward development of valued patterns and good citizenship
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By providing a forum for student opinions, interests and desires so these may be understood by the entire student body, faculty, administration and community
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Promote Scholarship
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By providing experience in genuine problem-solving procedures
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By providing training and experiences in the skills and techniques of good citizenship and leadership to prepare articulate citizens and leaders for a progressing society
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Promote Leadership
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By providing young people with the power and right to speak and, especially, the power, right and privilege of being heard by those in authority
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By promoting opportunities for leadership among student body members
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By utilizing the ideas and support of students in solving relevant school problems
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Promote Human Relations
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By helping create harmonious relationships among faculty, administration, student body and the community
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By providing organized services to the school in the interest of the general welfare
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By helping young people further realize the genius and dignity of each individual
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Promote Cultural Values
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By sparking school loyalty, pride, patriotism and individual student development
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By giving young people deeper reasons for attending school and the stimulus for developing commitments to worthy goals
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By helping each student reach maximum educational growth and development