Introduction:
During the month of February, Student Council plans a festival for students to hang out and play games. This festival is called the Palentine’s Festival. This festival is made for Valentine’s Day, but Student Council turns it into a festival to hang out with friends. The process of making this festival takes a while: Student Council starts planning a month ahead, making decorations, planning what games to use, and the whole set-up of it.
Planning:
A month ahead, Student Council starts making plans. They talk about the whole set-up of it and the things they use. Then after talking, Student Council starts making decorations while the teachers (Ms. Alamilla and Mr. Aleman) start drawing out the set-up and assigning student-jobs. After decorations, students are shown their jobs and what they are in charge of doing that day. Then, students prepare and do any final touches on the set-up or their decorations.
Festival day:
During the morning Student Council students attend their first class like normal. After class, students are instructed to go to the gym and wait there for everyone else to come out. When everyone is there, they go over the plan and set-up. That day it took an an hour and a half to set up and the rest of the time left (10 minutes) was spent going over how it will go and eating lunch. Students then come to the festival, one grade at a time.
Clean up:
After the whole event, Student Council stayed for between 30 minutes and an hour to clean up everything.
Feedback:
After the festival I interviewed some Student Council members about their jobs and some people about how they liked the festival.
Kimberly Pastor, an eighth grader, was asked how she felt about her job and how she felt setting up her game.
“My game was the dart game,” she said. “For my game it was difficult to set up because it required that dart board to be stuck to the brick wall and the tape wouldn’t stick to the wall. While helping the others was pretty easy. But we think we overdid the decoration because there wasn’t anywhere to put some of the decorations.”
Then I interviewed a student to get their feedback on the festival and what their favorite game was.
Melisa Almazan, an eighth grader, was asked to give feedback on the festival. “The festival overall was pretty nice. I liked the decorations and the theme. The prizes were also pretty fire,” she said. ”My favorite game was the Mario party one because it was super fun.”
