| Minutes Council Attendee’s: Michael Beavington, Chair; Davina Lalonde, Vice Chair; Michelle Wright, Vice Chair; Ann Kurikshuk-Nemec, Secretary; Christine Anderson, Treasurer; Amy Harrington, OCASC. School Staff: Suzie Robertson, Vice Principal; Diane Lockhart, School Administrator Teachers: Genevieve Gauthier-King (Junior
Teacher Rep); Suzanne Denney (Primary Teacher Rep); Craig MacAulay 1. Last meeting’s minutes accepted and the current agenda was accepted. 2. Fund Raising Committee Report. a. Used Clothing and Toy Sale: Heather Smith reported a successful sale which raised $1,403.50: $510.35 goes to JYES School Council. b. Fall Fundraiser Status: Michelle Wright, filling in for Karen Holzhuter, reported that the fundraising kits are out and the campaign is underway. c. Cake Raffle: Michelle Wright informed the Council that the next cake raffle is 27 October 2005. d. Book Fair: Michael Beavington reported that the next book fair will take place in a classroom, due to complaints of the gym being too cold. The next Scholastic book fair will be Nov 30-Dec 2. Ms. Gauthier-King made the proposal for a French Book Fair and it was well received. The French Book Fair may take place in March 2006. e. Future events in the new year discussion: Another cake raffle will probably be held in the middle of February 2006. Michelle Wright is arranging for another Gingerbread Shop to be held in early December 2005, possibly December 7 & 8. 3. Treasurer’s Report. Christine Anderson reported the Council’s account to be $5,479.95, not including Toy Sale revenues. 4. Principal/Vice Principal’s Report. Ms. S. Robertson, VP, made a long report to Council covering the following topics: - 09 November is the photo re-take day; - Early dismissal days are set and have been communicated to parents; - School assembly dates will be 31 Oct, Remembrance Day 11 Nov, Nov assembly will be on the 30th; - Extra-curricular activities: soccer; cross-country; homework club; Mr. Shulman setting up Chess Club; and volleyball. - outside Board lunchtime programs such as ‘cartooning’ ($80/child), other classes for $40/child; is there interest from Council for these programs? - Field trips - Bully prevention: “Bully Buster Program”; “Half-Pints” basketball show (accepting differences); Kanata Resources Center, role playing. - Ottawa Police Services-coming to give a presentation on the law, drugs, crimes, shop-lifting, etc. - discussion about older kids coming onto the playground and trying to sell drugs to the younger kids: before or after school, on pathways, involve police not teachers. - Mr. Beavington asked Ms. Robertson to talk to Mr. Malek to get a idea of the plan of action for the kids. - Training of the teachers means teachers are away. Literacy coach coming to help the teachers, and support the ‘Learn to Read’ program. - Training on the EPI pen (for anaphylactic reaction); some teachers have had training, but the use is straight forward. - Mr. Beavington asked if all the teacher’s were Level ‘C’ CPR trained? Only a couple teachers are trained in the basics each year; course is at their own cost. - Nov 8, public health nurse coming. - A. Nemec asked if there were any First Aid’ers at the school; Ms. Gauthier-King replied that each classroom has a paper listing on the wall, showing who to contact for emergencies. - Teacher Performance Appraisal, every year. This year there are 11 teacher’s in the process. - Report cards going home on November 28: parent interviews will be offered at the same time.
5. Teacher’s Report. - Ms. Gauthier-King presented a request from Mr. Shulman for money to buy new chess sets for the Chess Club he is organizing: Council requires more information and will re-visit this request - G. Gauthier-King presented a request from Ms. Adele Hay regarding the recognition of Grade 6 Lunchtime Monitors with a couple rewards such as a pizza party or cookies, etc. ; requires money from Council: Council requires more information and will re-visit this request - Ms. Gauthier-King informed the Council that she understood that a Member of Parliament had donated trees to another school after they had lost trees to vandalism. - due to the destruction of trees in the Ricky Place Park and one on school property, she recommended that someone from Council contact the local MP and ask about this. M. Beavington said he would call Gordon O’Connor and inquire. - Suzanne Denney reported that she was starting a recorder group and anticipated 40 kids to be interested; she requires money from Council to purchase recorder sheet music; she is the Ontario Registrar for a recorder organization and is attending a conference in Huntsville in the near future. She would like to be able to purchase up to $100 of sheet music for this group. MOTION made by C. Anderson to allow this purchase and it was seconded by M. Beavington. 6. General Store Discussion a. Inventory overview: Carolyn Ouellette, Parent Volunteer, was asked to discuss the current status of inventory in the store. b. Discussion of options on future of the store: Ms. Ouellette was asked what she felt would be the appropriate future of the General Store and she recommended not buying any more items and just selling off what was there. A possible closure date could be early 2006, once the stocks were depleted. She recommended advertisement to clear stock and it was suggested that a flyer be sent home to indicate what was in the General Store at what price and how to order these items. M. Beavington indicated he would put something in the next school Newsletter as a ‘Did you know?’ item. 7. Ottawa Carleton Association of School Councils (OCASC) - Amy Harrington and M. Beavington attended the 20 Oct 2005 meeting. - topics discussed included: school liability insurance, bank fees, school fees, renaming of OCDSB to ‘Ottawa District School Board’; Kanata Inter-School meetings. Mr. Beavington wanted to know more information about the school liability insurance and asked Ms. Robertson to find out more. -“One School System” presentation by Leonard Baak. - proposal to add item to next month’s agenda to discuss the supporting of the ‘One School System’ organization proposal being put forth to the Ministry. Ontario and Saskatchewan were the only 2 Provinces with a split system. - Ms. Harrington reported that her personal observations of the sentiments towards the presentation were split. No obvious support or panning of the propositions put forth, however, she felt many people were offended by the presenter’s use of “Catholic” to represent the separate school system. - A discussion ensued about having a separate meeting for JY parents to air their views on the topic of whether or not they support the current Public/Separate school systems or want a change. - The idea to make a brief to send to parents was accepted. The purpose would be to stimulate interest and possibly have a tear-off section to report back to school whether they are interested in attending a meeting. - JY Council must send back their vote to OCASC on the proposal with Ms. Harrington in January 2006, thus the need for parents input. - proposed meeting of Mr. Beavington, Cathy Currie, the Chair, Jack Donahue and any other Chairs that want to get involved, will talk about what the impact is for Kanata; the school board, bussing; how does it impact our school? ”Are our kids missing something because of the existing school system?” - MOTION to have a separate meeting for this discussion, after sending a page brief to parents with a tear-off section for reporting attendance at the meeting was made by M. Beavington and seconded by C. Anderson. 8. New Business. a. Private email list for general council: Executive was polled and deemed that current e-mail addressing was OK. b. Web pages-status: S. Denney spoke about her role in updating the school’s web pages. She needs to find more time. M. Beavington asked about the process of updating the Council items c. Constitution changes next meeting-to review in accordance to regulation 612/00 and regulation 298: For next agenda, meeting to discuss to be set for a January Council meeting. 9. Adjournment and next meeting. -MOTION made by A. Harrington to accept 30 Nov 2005 as next meeting date and to adjourn. Seconded by M. Wright. Prepared by Ann Kurikshuk-Nemec |