Cornell Village School Advisory
Council
Date: October 30, 2017
Time: 7:00pm-8:45pm
Parent Council Attendees:
Marie
Scott
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Y
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Rick
Chen
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N
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Susan
Reid
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Y
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Katherine
Strain
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Y
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Kelly
Sutherland
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N
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Niruban ‘Chris’ Naparajah
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N
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Dolly
Theodore Latchman
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Y
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Kristin Vikse
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N
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Karen
Bradley
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Y
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Haafid Rahman
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Y
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Amanda
Cartan
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Y
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Casandra Bryant
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Y
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Sabina
Khandaker
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Y
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Jenn
Koppes
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N
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Chris
Zarras
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Y
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Nilu
Manji
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Y
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Parent
Attendees: Heidi Riley, Kelly Dunn, Yu Chen
Staff
Attendees:
Scott Chin, Nadia MacKinnon, Shelley Hobor
1) Welcome
& Acceptance of current agenda (Amanda)
-all were in favour of the agenda
2) Acceptance
of September’s minutes (Amanda)
-Marie accepted the minutes, Chris second the
motion
3) Update
from School (Scott & Nadia)
a)
Open
House Feedback and Results from Survey
-a lot of positive feedback
-appears that people liked the sense of
community
-parents enjoyed having the classrooms
open
-people liked the food trucks
-food trucks give a percentage of
revenue back to the school and the school made some money; enough money to feed
all the staff and also made an additional $400
-ice-cream truck made the most money
with regards to profit for the school
-reviewed survey results: 69% of people
wanted to become more involved in the school community, 83% satisfied with
communication between the school and home , (email is preferred), 51% of people
have participated in fundraising events at school and would like to see funds
spent on Arts & Music, Technology
-8 new parking spots created
-Kiss N’ Ride lines painted on pavement
-approximately 30-45 cars go through the
Kiss n’ Ride
-staggered morning entry has been
successful; traffic has improved
b) EQAO Results
-results are on the school website
-survey is also tracking student’s
attitudes along with achievement
-results for achievement are decreasing
in both grade 3 and 6
-school results are similar to
provincial results
-the school is focusing on improving
math results; 20 teachers have committed to learning the new comprehensive math
program and have it fully implemented this year
-supports for the teachers and
administration (resources, training) will continue which
develop skills in multiple areas of teaching
math
-many staff have implemented many of the
components of the math program
-there are guidelines around the
expectations of the math program
-discussion took place about
communicating the math program to parents in order to better understand the
changes in the math program and how to assist their child
-planning to have a math night to review
math program with parents
-members concerned about students not
having some focus on basic math skills in order to be able to problem solve
efficiently
-admin reiterated that teachers are in
the process of learning the comprehensive math
program and will be supplied with whatever
resources and training they need with hopes that this will result in better
teaching methods/ skills; admin stated that basic math skills are being taught
but it may be taught in a different manner
-in the future, suggestion made about possibly
surveying students attitudes more frequently
-Scott showed presentation of a session
with teachers to focus on why they are teaching and what they want to
accomplish; key goal is to provide a ‘yes’ environment to achieve goals
c)
Invest
in Student Letter
-the letter will be sent out this week
-last year’s funds purchased 40
Chromebooks and a Macbook
-suggestion made about recurring
donations from parents
d) Setting the 3 or 4 main fundraising
goals for the year (or possibly next 3 years)
-flexible learning spaces- $15, 000
-playground enhancements- $4000
-athletics $5000
-laptops/Ipads- $10,000
4) Committee
Updates
a) Fundraising Update & Event Dates
(Katherine)
-gingerbread house fundraiser;
announcement and order form will go out in November and due back November 24th;
3 options including gingerbread house with candy, without candy or gingerbread
cookies
-suggestion made about having the
gingerbread houses on sale at the parent-teacher interview night
-fun fair in the spring including a
silent auction; need to start looking for auction items now
-school will organize the ‘fun part’ of
the fair including food trucks, bouncy castles, etc. and committee will canvas
for silent auction items
b) Parent Engagement (Susan
& Shelley)
-family math night in February
-possible movie night in the winter or
spring
c) Healthy Schools
(Marie)
-play leaders met with health nurse and
will interact with kindergartens first; they will play Simon Says
-play leaders are in grade 5 and engage
kindergartens and primary students in organized play activities
d) Staff Appreciation
(Marie)
-November 23rd, for
parent-teacher night, committee will provide dinner for teachers
-there are 60 staff
e) Yearbook Committee (Marie & Chris)
-yearbook committee has about 15 members and the consent
form has been sent out
-a lot of money can be saved if the committee can manage
the template
f) Communication (Description and Chair to be decided)
-will discuss at next meeting
5)
Treasurer’s
Report (Casandra)
-$2000 is in account to
support fundraisers (operating budget)
-$50.81
cents above the operating budget
-Scott
and Cassandra will sign existing budget
-Kelly
created a summary template which will be used alongside the existing template
6)
New
Business
a. Principal’s Profile
-Scott will send it out to the committee
for review and feedback
b.
Other
items
-Me
to We has the largest amount of participants this year; school is observing a
shift in
empowering students
-Spirit
Wear will have a table on November 23rd at parent teacher interview night with
order forms, samples and sizes
7)
Motion to adjourn
-Nilu accepted motion to
adjourn, Marie second the motion
If
any discrepancies in these minutes please contact:
Sabina
Khandaker
sabina_email@yahoo.com