Jan 12, 2012
6:15-8:00 pm
To be held in a third floor classroom. All da Vinci School parents/guardians, teachers, staff and community welcome! Childcare provided in separate classroom.
School Council Executive Members: Beth Mills, School Principal/ Robin Holmes-Smith, School Vice-Principal, Richard Stewart, co-chair, Mary Ptucha, co-chair, Nicole Winston, secretary, Cheryl Hooper, treasurer, Cindy Waldman, member-at-large, Carolina Berinstein, member-at-large-
Chair’s address – a quick announcement
5 minutes (6:15-6:20)
- executive personnel announcement
- family dinners at council meetings – review of conditions/expectations
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Principal’s address – update from Beth on school/board, issues and events
5 minutes for a general address here, then Beth can speak to each specific issue as we go through the agenda below (6:20-6:25)
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Parent concerns – issues raised by parents to discuss with Beth:
10 minutes (6:25-6:35)
- Head Lice – the school sends out the head lice protocol notice each time they are told of a case, are parents clear on protocol to follow when they discover their child has lice?
What is the school’s internal protocol with respect to cleaning the classroom when there is a lice outbreak? - Classroom cleanliness – how is this monitored and maintained?
- Lord Lansdowne/da Vinci joint events/ongoing programs – are any planned for this term? How will they be communicated to parents? Any council involvement needed?
- Lunch Room behavior – any feedback from the lunchroom supervisors on the lunch room environment?
- Affordability of school events – what process is in place for subsidizing the cost of school events, such as trips, for families in need? Are parents aware of this option? How can the Council help?
- Head Lice – the school sends out the head lice protocol notice each time they are told of a case, are parents clear on protocol to follow when they discover their child has lice?
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Information Night – planning session to fine tune schedule for the evening, and define and plan parent involvement
30 minutes (6:35-7:05)
- What the staff have planned
- Parent involvement – could some parents speak to their experience as part of the evening? be available to answer questions?
- Classroom visits during school day
- Review of Parent application questionnaire used in past years – is it fulfilling it’s purpose? do we want to change anything?
- Flyers to advertise the event
- confirm any take away tasks – who is doing what, when?
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Executive Business – review of outstanding executive business from previous meetings, and future plans
30 minutes (7:05-7:35)
- Validate Meetings – confirm dates and times of this year’s planned meetings, discuss options to make the meetings workable for all families involved, but still inclusive for whole community
- School Profile – a review of the existing document, is there anything we want to change – anything that should be emphasized more, or spelled out more clearly?
- Code of Conduct – Mary to update on Safe and Caring School’s Committee set up, goal is for this committee to prepare a draft for the Code of Conduct to propose to council in March; executive to share thoughts on this, anyone want to be involved on the committee level?
- Treasurer’s Report
- CPR – review of where we are at in the process, where we go from here; reschedule the whole community CPR session for the next general council meeting?
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Parent Talks – formulate plan for parent talks with Marg
20 minutes (7:35-7:55)
- What are the issues and needs that parents would like Marg to speak to, as a school community?
- What came out of the CPR work that can be part of Marg’s work with us?
- Marg’s availability/scheduled time with teachers
- Confirm take away tasks – who is doing what, when?
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Miscellaneous – anything not covered, list of future action items
5 minutes (7:55-8:00)
- Website training session with Ian – Ian would like to set up a 45 minute training session for council executive and teachers, to show us all the basics of managing the website – how to upload pictures, post news and events, and edit the calendar – discussion of possible meeting date
- Parking – Cindy has done some legwork into the parking situation – future action?
- Setting agenda for next general council meeting
- List of future action items