Parent's Council Meeting Minutes: October 11th, 2011

Minutes

Glen Cairn PS

PARENT COUNCIL

October 11^th 2011

7:00pm – Attendance Brian Herron, Julie Drapeau, Pat Furlong, Scott Blythe, Paul Warner, Rebecca Tibbits, Tracy Ahern, Megan Alink

Regrets: Amy DiRienzo, Jamie Oakely, Gwen Allingham

Minutes of September 2011 meeting passed

REPORTS

Treasurer

-       Roughly $5,300 in spendable cash

-       Pizza orders are down this year (139 slices ordered), cost per slice to council has increased due to 8 instead of 10 slices per pizza.  Pizzas are also smaller this year.

-       There is a cap of 50 cheques depositable per month without paying a ($15?) bank surcharge

-       There is a 2 week window to deposit cheques based on a policy put in place in February, 2003.

-       Motion to repeal the “cheques must be cashed within 2 weeks policy” put forward by Julie Drapeau, seconded by Paul Warner.  Motion carried.

-       Media carts will cost $1600.

-       Whisper phones orders still on the books, but haven’t been re-imbursed.  Order to be stricken from the purchase requisitions list.

OCASC

-       Good turnout at the OCASC meeting, lots of people

-       Facebook group for OCASC

-       Air quality concerns should be forwarded to the school

-       2 speakers from the board:

o    Healthy food policy seems to be per event.  If a popcorn night was held in the evening, would cupcakes in the morning count as a separate mark towards the 10 healthy food guideline exclusion?  Debate is ongoing

o    WELL – Wellbeing Engagement Leadership Learning

o    Castlefrank Public School had its music room broken into twice.  They were cleaned out.

Principal

-       October is a busy time for paperwork

-       Principal profile is due

-       Kanata ARC:

o    4 possible options for Glen Cairn will be presented at public meeting October 18^th at AY Jackson.  Please voice your opinions in the Cafetorium at 6:30.

-       Progress reports to be going home Nov 10

-       We have started the SIP process for the year.  Our goal is:

o    Through the inquiry/questioning model, by December 2010, students will demonstrate 10% growth in their ability to respond to (Kindergarten and Grade 3) and evaluate (Grades 4-8)(1.8) the author’s point of view (1.9), through either fiction or non-fiction.  Additionally, there will be a 10% increase across all divisions, in their ability to communicate their understanding of math concepts.

-       Individual Education Plans will be going out to the board for October 18th

-       Terry Fox raised over $1,000, Pat to be pied as a result

-       Monthly Health & Safety inspections are going well

-       New student council has been elected.  Lots of fun events planned out already

-       Remembrance Day assembly on Nov 11

-       November 21^st is a PD Day for interviews

Fundraising

-       McDonalds night is a go, date to be determined.  End of November?

-       Hawberry Farms or McMillans will probably proceed this fall

-       Cards By Me: Teachers send in the art, company prints the cards.  Parents order sets of 13 for $20.  School gets $6.50 per order – minus shipping costs.  Not too much teacher involvement required for this fundraiser.

-       School photographer also does Christmas cards.  Timing (turnaround times) and pricing to be determined.

Old Business

-       Motion put forward to buy a new media cart at $1,600.  Taxes may be additional.  Motion passed to allow up to $1,850 to be spent on a new media cart.

-       GLP class would like a field trip to the Bill Mason Center (outdoor education program).   Renting a bus will cost $200.  Pat to discuss with Ms. Milks.

-       Does Mairin have any requests that council

New Business

-       Appreciation night for OCASC, Thursday October 20^th

-       Council End of year report has been submitted

-       February we will host a seminar on the Arts.  Motion to use $50 from PRO Grant to pay for refreshments at the seminar, passed.

-       There is a waste free lunch challenge.  Glen Cairn strives towards this goal, but isn’t necessarily registered as an official participant.

-       Healthy School 2020 workshops are being held by Champlain Cardiovascular Disease Prevention http://www.healthyschools2020.ca/ Glen Cairn is a healthy school, and is working towards these goals.

-       Pat to look into Sporty Kids for this school year

-       CHEO Connects - October 24^th, in partnership with OCDSB pertaining to the first year of your life.

-       Getting a Good IEP session being held as at Rideau High on Saturday October 21th 10:00-noon.

-       Ontario is one of the few places that has been able to sustain education growth.  Ontario is looked on favourably at the global educational level.

-       Secretary for next meeting: Megan Alink

Meeting adjourned 8:00 p.m.

Next meeting November 8^th, 7pm

September 20th, 2011 Meeting minutes.

Glen Cairn Public School
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

Jeff Ross reporting on ARC:

•  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
  Suggestions for the calendar this year:
  •  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.
    Pizza Sub Committee:
    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
    Paul had a question about the Cross Graded Class (3/4/5)
    
    • - 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
    We were then encouraged to eat cookies.
    Meeting Adjourned at 20:30.

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Pearl bracelet #1
Pearl bracelet #2

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Glen Cairn Parent Council March 8, 2011 Minutes

Glen Cairn Parent Council March 8, 2011 Minutes

In attendance: Paul Warner, Amy DiRienzo, Pat Furlong, Mike Hickey, Deb Hickey, Gwen Allingham, Brian Herron, Scott Blythe, Andrea Hoyt
Regrets: Julie Drapeau, Chris Mollison
Call to order 7:05 pm

Approval of minutes from last meeting

Reports

Treasurer (Deb)

•  cheques were ordered a few weeks ago and were supposedly sent to Deb's home address and wouldn't be there until the 16th of March, 2011. Deb hopes that they will come in before Friday to get them signed;
•  Deb didn't get the pizza information from Tracy until the time when the bank statement was going to be ready so all of the cheques except for council members in order to prevent an extra
• service charge – those will be put in for March 26;
•  We have nearly $5000 available for spending;
•  Sporty Life has been delayed as our contact is no longer associated with the association;
•  We now have a standard means to raise money for OCASC – the system will not allow this to be forgotten in the future;
•  Deb has a friend who is willing to count Campbell's Soup Labels;
•  John Young is performing a recycling fund-raiser

OCASC (Mike)

•  a couple of schools were asking about head lice and how to avoid events. There was a fair amount of feedback;
•  There are a 3 part discussion series regarding teenagers: March 10th at Merivale High School – no charge, Social Networks, May 5th Drugs, and Safe Young Drivers (May 24th);
•  April 18th, 19th - Aboriginal Conference – first come first serve;
•  Kindness Programme – 613 835 4201 – Jennifer Snell – she brings in a dog and talks about kindness towards animals and allows for the children to interact with the child;
•  Saturday April 2nd – there is a meeting coming up to discuss IPRC and IUP ;
•  The main meeting was about OCASC and PIC (Parent Involvement Committee) and how that there will be more involvement of PIC with OCASC or other arrangements;

Fundraising (Gwen)

•  Gwen looked into the Cards By Me programme – but would have to be started up in the Autumn;

Principal (Pat)

•  Student's survey is back on – there will be a letter coming home to discuss privacy concerns – this will be taking place April 13;
• The ARC committee is still meeting – please get involved!!!!!
• March 24th – information night;
• Fabulous Flag display – a huge thank you for Mr. Watts;
• Grade 8 Celebration Date on the 29 of June;
• Looking into Grad Photo retake days;
• Spirit Day coming this Friday – dress as a super hero;
• Shave for the Brave – rallying for a student – he is collecting money for charity and will have his head shaved;
•  LLI programme is working quite well for improving reading;
•  Marge Duncan has asked for juice boxes for Jump Rope – she also thanked us for the dress-up clothes for the Kindergarten students;
•  Marge Duncan has also asked to look into the Toyota Greening programme;


Business arising from last meeting

•  McMillan's update: 120 in profit so far, 40 units sold, 8 orders in as of Tuesday; there is going to be an award for top class/top student;
•  Sporty Kid's Status
•  Ebay Auctions: we have an account, we need to just set up a pay pal account; Brian will set up an account and use it in conjunction with the Treasurer for the next 12 months;
•  Helmets from Lowe's: there was some confusion over the donation; we may have to reimburse Pat for her purchase from the GC account; it was suggested that the fund be named after Steve;
•  Home Hardware (at Bridlewood) is set up. Just let the cashier know the purchaser is from GC

New Business

•  Cotton Candy – Amy has a contact for the machine and will confirm the price;
•  sold for $2.00 last year and $180.00 for supplies – got the machine for $50.00
•  Picnic

•  everything is lining up for the picnic;
•  Gwen presented bouncy castle like structures as a possibility;
•  the entertainment is lining up;
•  Paul has contact information and has been in contact with the Karaoke lady;
•  Paul will follow up with food possibilities in the next few months;
•  Volunteers will be lined in the month prior to the picnic.

Meeting adjourned 8:35 pm

Next meeting, April 12th, 7pm

Sad news...

Glen Cairn Public School Parent Council is sending condolences to the family of Roger McEwen, the father of Payton and Hailey, who passed away on Monday, March 21st in his 43rd year.  Friends may pay respects at the Kelly Funeral Home, 580 Eagleson Road Kanata, Thursday March 24, 2011 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.  A Service in Memory of Roger will be held Friday, March 25, 2011 in the Chapel at 11 a.m.

Additional Donation System for Glen Cairn

Thanks to the Manager and Owner of the Bridlewood Home Hardware we are eligible to receive donations based on a percentage of pre-tax tales.

Here's how it will work: when an employee or student family member from the school purchases products from Bridlewood Home Hardware, a percentage of their pre-tax sales will be donated back to the Glen Cairn Public School's Parent Council. 

It is important that at the time of purchase, that people participating mention that they are from Glen Cairn Public School.   A duplicate receipt will be printed out and saved for the fund.  Every two months a cheque will be sent for that time period.

Note that this program is exclusive between Glen Cairn Public School and Bridlewood Home Hardware 90 Michael Cowpland Drive (at Eagleson).

Here is the contact information for the Bridlewood Home Hardware store:

http://www.homehardware.ca/en/dealer-microsites/1435-0/contact-information.htm

Announcement regarding Little League registration.

In the spirit of keeping our children active and healthy with fun and games, the Kanata Little League Baseball Assoc. (KLLBA) has a couple of upcoming registration dates.

 

They normally hold registration at KRC which is just off of Terry Fox and the 3 dates are as follows:

 

Saturday March 5, from 10 am - 2 pm

Wednesday April 6, from 7 pm - 9 pm

Saturday April 9, from 10 am - 2 pm

 

For further information:

www.kllba.ca