School Committees
Student Life Committee
The student life committee provides students with the opportunity to build leadership skills while promoting a positive school culture. Students can participate in any or all aspects of Student Life.
Leadership
Students have the opportunity to voice their concerns, opinions, and what they would like to see in their school. Those that have demonstrated great dedication and have a strong voice will present upcoming projects to staff council, be student representatives on Governing Board or serve the English Montreal Student Association Committee.
Ambassadorial Duties
These include greeting students, animating and giving tours at grade 7 orientation activities, speaking at elementary schools to promote Royal Vale, giving tours and greeting parents at Open House or Parent Teacher Interviews etc.
Fundraising
Fundraising events are planned in order to collect funds for local or international causes such as food banks, The Heart and Stroke Foundation, The Cure, etc. Greater fundraising endeavours have included raising funds to put the RVS sign in front of the school, purchasing the school mascot, buying a huge banner and stage lights for the auditorium.
Event Planning
Students participate in all aspects of planning and organizing school events such as school-wide BBQ’s or field day, haunted houses, dances, tubing trips, selecting and booking motivational speakers, etc.
Yearbook Committee
The yearbook committee is an association of students from all levels ( usually one student per homeroom) who meet on a regular basis ( 1 day per two cycles) in order to assist the yearbook editors in producing this year’s yearbook. Some of their tasks consist in choosing the colours associated with their homeroom classes, choosing their homeroom mascot, taking candid pictures of the students in their homeroom during different periods of the day (throughout the year), collecting artwork from their homeroom group and assisting the editors in any and all other tasks to ensure the success of this year’s yearbook.
Graduation Committee
Student members assume a variety of responsibilities to help support graduation activities and events.
School Volunteer Programs
Library Volunteer Program
What a wonderful place to offer your services than in your school library! This library is a place to foster student’s love for reading and to make sure that they can be provided with the resources that they need. You can actively participate to help keep your library tidy and organized and to assist our school librarian with some small tasks.
In-School Mentoring Program
Big Brother Big Sisters West Island collaborate with Royal Vale to match volunteer mentors who are fifteen years or older with children (mentees) from elementary. Volunteers meet with their mentees for one hour per week throughout the school year to talk, play games and have fun.
Student Exchange Program
Live, learn, discover, become a citizen of the world! We collaborate with Éducation Internationale to enroll students in an exchange program based on mutual sharing to allow students to live a cultural and linguistic immersion that is rich and unforgettable. Students will learn a new language by living in either France, Spain, Mexico or Germany! Students can go for either one month or three depending on the country of their choice and age/grade eligibility.
Peer Tutoring Program
The Peer Tutoring Program is a program that matches students from high school with students from the elementary level or of a lower grade in High School. Student tutors are chosen based on their academic standing and achievement and are usually referred by their teachers. Tutors have the opportunity to strengthen their personal leadership and communication skills.