Student Council

At Portsmouth High School, we hold student voice in high regard. As such, we strongly encourage students to engage in the democratic processes associated with our School Council. The Student Council has a faculty advisor that is also designated as the Student Activities Coordinator. The advisor grants approval of all non-athletic student activities and is responsible for the overall supervision of such events.

Please note that students must arrive on time to school and be present for the entire scheduled school day in order to take part in practice sessions, games, activities, or attend any school functions on that day, and also weekend school sponsored events. Any extenuating circumstances will be reviewed by the building administration.

The general aims of the Student Council are:

To represent the students' views to the Administration.
To coordinate the recreational, social and school functions as they pertain to the Student Body.
To maintain a calendar of all school functions.
To coordinate class/student council elections.

Class Government Advisors

Each class shall have a faculty member who is responsible for the overall supervision of all class activities. Class officers include:

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

Student Council Officers

The Student Council shall have as its governing body the following officers:

President
Vice President
Secretary,
Treasurer

There will also be five representatives from each class. These representatives will be elected by the student body in their respective grade levels. Altogether there will be twenty members of the Student Council. The Student Council will meet, before or after school, once every other week at a time and place stated in the by-laws. Meetings will be open unless decided otherwise and voted on by the members of the Student Council.

Student Code of Conduct

We believe that efforts to encourage positive, confident and assertive student leadership can begin to change current social norms that encourage and support use. We believe student leadership can help create an environment that encourages and rewards chemically free social activity. Recent successes and advances in prevention efforts support the idea that helping students identify influences that encourage chemical use enables them to develop skills to resist those influences from their peers. Watching those peers demonstrate the skills to resist chemical use can provide the leadership that we believe is critical to reducing chemical use among students. Evaluation of school prevention efforts emphasizes the importance of peer led instruction in many curricula. Student leadership that helps students identify personal goals and values and then helps their peers identify how chemicals can either interfere with those goals or contradict those values can be an important component of our overall efforts to help students.

The Student Council believes that strong student leadership can help students set goals, resist influences to chemical use, and reward safe and healthy behavior.
The Student Council believes that students can play a powerful and positive role in helping to prevent chemical use problems among their classmates.
The Student Council believes that students can play a significant role in helping classmates who are experiencing chemical use problems to find professional and compassionate support and treatment.
The Student Council believes all student leaders can be encouraged and assisted to be chemically free role models for their peers, regardless of past choices and behavior.
The Student Council believes that positive student leadership is the key component of any school or community prevention effort.
The Student Council believes that school administrators are in a key role to influence policy development and provide support for student leadership to emerge.

Student leadership is a powerful and potentially positive influence for students to help create an environment in which it is acceptable and expected by peers to be chemically free.

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