Date: September 17, 2018

Time: 7:00pm-8:45pm

Parent Council Attendees: 

Parent Attendees: Casandra Bryant

Staff Attendees: Scott Chin, Vivienne Baines, Myka Hang

1)      Welcome & Acceptance of Current Agenda (Amanda)

-all were in favour of the agenda

2)      Introduction of School Admin and It’s Role (Scott & Vivienne)

-introduction of new vice principal, Vivienne Baines

3)      Introduction of Council Members And Attendees (All)      

-introduction of past council members

-introduction of all other attendees

4)      Review of Council Protocol, Role & Responsibilities (Amanda)

-roles and responsibilities for each elected position of council were reviewed

5)      Nomination And Voting For Executive Roles (All)

-voting took place for elected positions and results are as follows:

Chair: Amanda Cartan

Vice-Chair: Chris Zarras

Treasurer: Kelly Sutherland

Secretary: Sabina Khandaker

Past Chair: Sue Reid

6)      Treasurer’s Report (Kelly)

-Treasurer’s report was presented to council

-$5000 still needs to be spent from last year

-$2000 is allocated towards operating budget

-$2800 was allocated towards school pod redesign but only $1500 was all spent, therefore, funds

are still available towards this project

-sports jerseys and ball catcher purchased

-fun fair silent auction raised approximately $1450

            -49 chromebooks were purchased last year and similar version of smartboards were purchased

            for kindergarten classes

            -school is constantly updating/ refreshing technology in the school

            -exploring Lego Mindstorm kits for coding

-Haafid motioned for $4000 to be spent this year towards technology cost sharing with the school and Chris seconded the motion (this was voted on by council last year)

7)      Description And Sign Up For Committees (Amanda)

-Amanda reviewed the different council committees

-comments were made about fundraising and how time consuming it can be so it was suggested that fundraising events should try to raise more than $1000

8)      Update From School (Scott)

-Scott reviewed school’s website

-the school blog is linked with the website

-the blog will include any tweets, community events, daily announcements, and newsletters

-Orientation Night is September 26^th from 5:00-7:30; there will be food trucks, music and then parents can visit classrooms/teachers

-4 pillars that are the focus for this year include:

-math, modern learning, mental health and Indigenous education & equity

-discussion about the ‘YES’ revolution- youth who are engaged and successful along with being happy

-focus on building collaborative relationship with students, parents, teachers; especially for those students who may be falling outside the “YES circle”

-CVPS will be a featured school at We Day; CVPS is one of two schools that have been

selected

-CVPS has an active Me To We team in the school

-Scott and Myka spoke about an exercise completed with the staff to create an inclusive and accepting environment

-the centre of the diagram is ‘We are a village growing together’ and has outer circles to include concepts of inclusion and real-life applications at school

-school wants to hear from students and parents about how the school can be more inclusive and how to implement changes to create a more accepting and inclusive environment

-Northern Karate registration has begun for sessions to occur at school in the gym

9)      New Business (All)

Spirit Wear (Chris)

-Chris feels that some of the spirit wear options should be reduced because each different item has a set up cost

-suggested only selling non-zip hoodies and short sleeve T shirts

-spirit wear will be sold in October

-will have spirit wear promoted at Orientation Night

Meeting Dates (Amanda)

            -Amanda reviewed the meeting dates and will email the dates to council members

            -council meeting dates are also posted on the outdoor school bulletin board and can be found on

            the school website calendar

Event Dates

-Orientation Night will take place on September 26th

-will survey parents at Orientation Night; survey may focus on how the school can be a more inclusive and accepting environment

Other

-role of Treasurer needs to be updated/ amended in constitution and review/ update all roles if necessary

-Vivienne will be sending out a communication newsletter weekly; school council can send her information about anything that the council wants communicated to parents

-healthy school liaison has a specialty in mental health

-discussion about another hot lunch option on Fridays with Mother’s Deli

-the lunch includes pasta or chicken and rice and costs $3.00; possibly increase the price to $5.00 and may include juice box and a cookie

-council needs to make sure that the vendor is board approved

-council will speak to vendor about doing this hot lunch weekly

10)  Motion to Adjourn (Amanda)

- Karen accepted motion to adjourn, Chris seconded the motion

Minutes taken by Sabina Khandaker

If any discrepancies in these minutes please contact:

Sabina Khandaker

sabina_email@yahoo.com​