Parent Council
September 20th, 2011
Attendance:
Julie Drapeau Herron
Brian Herron
Scott Blythe
Jeff Ross – Rossj1@algonquincollege.com
Rebecca Tibbits – aiken_rebecca@yahoo.ca
Amy Direienzo – mickeymouse13@rogers.com
Deb Hickey
Paul Warner – glebite@rogers.com
Pat Furlong
Tracey Ahern
Skipping of the reading of minutes from last year.
We went around the table introducing each other.
Message from the Principal:
- Pat talked about the meet the teacher night,
- enrollment numbers have dropped
- Jeff will be talking about the ARC
- Pat talked about the EQAO results:
- Pat mentioned how the results were skewed
- But factoring out the Special and General students:
- Grade 3:
- 60% Reading
- 67 % Writing
- 67% Math
- Grade 6:
- 71% Reading
- 65% Writing
- 59% Math
- first fire drill was held – the first of three
- we did a really good job
- there are two lockdown drills in the future
- Monarch release on Friday
- Sept 28th – Terry Fox
- Sept 27th – School Photos
- Hep B shots – Sept 22
- First Assembly – Sept 30
- there haven’t been any votes yet but the 7/8 model is being suggested
- an architect said that the building improvements would be impossible to upgrade water fountains, etc...
- MFI – this could add 200 students to Glen Cairn
- There was a suggestion of John Young run as a K-3 English/French Immersion, Glen Cairn would become a 4-8 English/French Immersion.
Pat expanded upon this with a description of the problem: too many students for the buildings in Kanata North and just right numbers for Kanata South (with some shuffling).
The public meeting will be in October – Pat will include it in the newsletter.
The message is to get parents involved with ARC as well as their input
The ARC recommendations are supposed to be implemented in 2012
New Business:
Brian walked through the positions:
Chair;
Secretary;
Treasurer;
OCASC Rep;
OCDSB Rep;
Fund Raising Coordinator;
Picnic Coordinator.
Election of officers:
- Pat indicated that Gwen could not attend the meetings but might help.
- Paul volunteer for OCASC;
- acclamation
- Brian for OCDSB;
- acclamation
- Rebecca for Treasurer;
- acclamation
- Julie will chair;
- acclamation.
- Assign secretary – that way everybody gets to share the joy;
- Holding off on Picnic Coordinator – going to circulate that one for a bit via email just in case someone in the email list who'd like to join in
- Cupcakes in February (Valentine's Day)
- Picnic in June
- McDonald's Night(s)
- Home Hardware needs to be advertised more!!!!
- Starbucks Day???? or contributions from them???
- Hawberry Farms - Fall
- McMillans - are we going to bring them back?
- Possibly Regal or Innisbrook?
- Scott brought up Cards By Me again - he'd be happy to look into it.
- Amy discussed Sendoutcards.com - huge selection of cards, regular cards, gifts, and everything is done online
- Amy will get us more information
- Cheese sales is an option
- Pizza!!!
- Pat is going to look into continuing with Pizza Pizza
- Tracey says that 1 for 1 pizza meets the guidelines
- Pat will follow up with the pizza.
Rebecca, Brian, Pat, Tracey
Long term goals:
- - Play structure - Pat wants to see what the outcome from the ARC decision until February
- - Julie was asking about the larger play structure - apparently it's been worked on by the school despite being owned by the city
- - it is inspected every day because it is being used by the school
- - Scott suggested a day trip to the NAC as he received a portfolio for it
- - HipHop did quite well - perhaps another couple of events this year
- - Square Dancing did okay
- - We'll ask Jill to fire up the HipHop people coming in
- - Media Cart is one thing that could be brought in to help
- - Pat will come up with prices for Document Camera and the Media Cart
- - Parent involvement fund...
- - put our meetings in the newspaper
- - $500 grant from the school board - we should use it
- - Deb suggested using google groups to email out to restrict email advertising and gets past the 100 email limit imposed by yahoo.ca
- - Rebecca needs to be a signing authority
- - Gwen
- - Brian
- Julie
- - cross graded group
- - nothing from the Ministry
- - a lot of studies and links provided by Pat:
- http://www.mun.ca/educ/faculty/mwatch/win2000/mulcahy.html
- http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9221/teaching.htm
- http://php.scripts.psu.edou/dept/jrre/articles/v3,n3,p111-115,Pratt.pdf
Meeting Adjourned at 20:30.
