Edenrose School Council Meeting
[Feb 3rd 2014]
Minutes
In Attendance:
-Linda Lennox (Principal)
-Kelly McTavish (Vice Principa)
-Sandra Pellerin (Teacher Rep)
-Falak Pasha (Secretary)
-Vineeta Abbott (Treasurer)
-Kelly Huang
-Daisy Miller
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Administration Report – Linda Lennox and Kelly McTavish
Boundary change
-It was determined that all older French Immersion students will remain at Edenrose as this was the choice indicated by the survey sent home to families.
Parent Numeracy Conference
-A parent numeracy conference is being held on April 18th and the flyers will be sent home with students along with their report cards.
-Edenrose is planning informative sessions during open house held during Education week. Parents will get a chance to see learning in action.
Swim to survive
-This is a safety initiative provided to each grade 3 classroom.
-Bussing and lessons provided at no extra charge to provide basic skills on how to be safe in the water.
-The sessions were held at River grove Community Center.
Skating
-Teachers are looking into a new program that would also provide instruction as well as skates and helmets to those students who don’t have them already.
-Students who already own skating gear can bring their own.
-This program is being planned for grade 3 to grade 5 and details are still being worked on.
Salvation Army Food Drive and Pals – Sandra Pellerin
-Salvation Army was a huge success, we had 2000 items boxed and the members from Salvation Army even came dressed as Santa and his elves.
-We are working on another training session for PALS. The goal is to encourage problem solving on the playground and reduce bullying.
-February was writing month so we have an Edenrose postal system. Students are encouraged to write, label and create stamps for their letters to other students/teachers in school.
-OFIP – Ontario Focus Intervention Program. This program is to support students that need extra help.
-The program is grant based and some teachers have signed up to tutor students for 30-40 mins during recess for a period of 15 weeks.
-Currently we have 6 groups of students working with teachers. Each group has 6 students each. This is being offered to grade 2 and grade 3 students only.
Pizza Day Update – Falak Pasha
-We had one very busy pizza day for our students.
-It turned out to be popular food day. Out of 895 students, 627 students placed orders.
-We ordered a total of 142 pizzas.
-Some parent concerns were lack of options. We offered cheese pizza only due to the volume of orders.
-Some hurdles we faced were due to the size of the school. All grades eat lunch at 12:10 pm and not all students eat in their classrooms.
-Distributing pizza to 627 students at the same time required a lot of man power. We had about 13-14 parents come out to volunteer. We even recruited some grade 5 helpers.
-Other hurdles were due to the fact that grade 3 and grade 4 students are split up all over the school for lunch. This added a layer of complexity in getting the pizza orders to the students in time.
-Pizza was ordered through Gino’s and they delivered pizza late. This goof up caused major issues on pizza day. Since this was really unsatisfactory, we got 30% off our bill. Money owed Gino’s was $696
-Total revenue was $2206. After payments our net profit was $1508.
-The net profit is a very good number and the committee decided to come up with other fundraising methods for our large school or have split pizza days.
-Council decided to support the music room updates with this money.
FDK Registration.
-Details of FDK registration were discussed.
-First week in June parent of new kindergarten students will be offered a “Welcome to Kindergarten” session.
Move a thon.
-Daisy Miller is the parent member helping out with this fundraiser.
-The dates decided are March 12 and 13th.
-This is a teacher initiated event and forms will be sent home Feb 20th.
-Parents will be asked to volunteer and the grades will be split between 2 days.
-We are still considering a Math Night event to tie into Education Week. This will give parents an opportunity to see student work.
-We are also still considering ways to spend the 500$ PRO grant. Some suggestions included having a talk by speaker on BYOD, online safety and digital citizenship.
-Linda agreed to send info on speakers to parents to decide this.
-Meetings gets adjourned.