Date: April 8, 2019

Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm

Parent Council Attendees: 

Parent Attendees:

Staff Attendees: Scott Chin, Vivienne Baines, Myka Hang

1)   Welcome & Acceptance of Current Agenda (Amanda)

-all were in favour of the agenda

2)   Acceptance of February 2019 Meeting Minutes (Amanda)

-Kelly accepted the minutes and Nilu seconded the motion

3)   Treasurer’s Report (Kelly)

-the vendor hasn’t been paid yet for the spirit wear

-gingerbread sales profit is $1,151.96

-the gross amount for hot lunches is $14,665 (Profit should be approx. $5,000 for the year)

-movie nights have raised $2,326.40 (just over $1,000 each, one more in April)

-Cornell-A-Thon raised $4,048.72 plus $2,700 in donations online (not reflected on Report yet)

Allocation of Funds

-request was made by school for approximately $5,000 towards technology

-request was made by school for approximately $2,500 for a water filling station on the second floor of school

-an email will be sent out by Amanda to vote on spending funds for the technology and water filling stations requests

4)   Committee Updates and Upcoming Events:

Upcoming Events:

·         Movie Night- Monday, April 29, 2019 – Spiderman, Into the Spider-Verse

·         Silent Auction/ Fun Fair- Thursday, June 13, 2019

a)   Fundraising Update (Amanda)

-see notes in Treasurer’s Report section for amounts raised

-the older students assisted with being leaders for the younger students at the Cornell-A-

Thon

-will have another movie night in April

-silent auction will occur at Fun Fair; more items are needed for the auction

-food trucks are booked, a lot of vendors will be doing demonstrations / offering

memberships or free classes

-will still reach out to a few more vendors

-will have obstacle course

-Council will sell freezies in June

b)   Parent Engagement (Haafid)

-pro grant funds will be utilized at the Me to We Night

c)    Healthy Schools (Marie)

-will have a walk to school day on April 24, 2019; will serve hot chocolate in the morning

-nurse has offered to come in and do a workshop on the new Canadian Food Guide for

teachers or parents

-suggestion that this could be a Parent Engagement night?

d)   Yearbook (Karen/Myka)

-the files need to be given to the printing company by May 31^st

-on June 4, 2019 the printer will give a sample and the council/ school has one day to give feedback to the printing company

-delivery date of the yearbooks will be June 20, 2019

-yearbook will have 100 pages

-there is a price increase of $0.78 per book due to the increase in the price of paper

-Katherine will make collages for each class from the pictures that the teachers submit

5)   Update From School (Scott)

-purchased some coding technology (Bee Bot, Ozobots, Lego Mindstorms/ EV3’s, etc)

-Scott demonstrated some of the technology

-will implement music coding apps for kindergarten to grade four

-48 new chrome books purchased and in use

-will have Me to We Family Night this Wednesday, April 10^th and the Eco team will have a station

-there will be a coding station at the Me to We Night

-there will be several activities that are run by the students

-musical “Shrek” will be on April 24, 2019 and tickets are on sale

-approximately 200 tickets have already been sold

-grade 8 grad trip is May 1-3

-overnight trip for grade 6’s will be at Laurier University in June

-discussion took place about possibly offering the university trip to the older students in the future

-the school encourages all grade six students to attend the trip to the university

-planning for fun fair is underway

School clubs include, but not limited to:

-junior basketball, Ted Talks club, badminton club

-art club and science club for grade 3’s and then will introduce it to the grade 2’s

-intermediate coding club

-board game group

-the new school met with parents after March break

-portables will be closed for next year

-approximately 200 students will be going to the new school and leaving Cornell Village Public School

6)   New Business (All)

a)   Outdoor Classroom / gardens:

-will make schedule to water and care for the gardens and outdoor classroom during the summer

-the gardens need an edge/ trim so that the mulch and soil can remain in the garden and

 not spill outwards

-soil and mulch needs to be purchased

-next council meeting will be held on Monday, May 13, 2019

7)  Motion to Adjourn (Amanda)

-Nilu accepted motion to adjourn, Chris seconded the motion

Minutes taken by Sabina Khandaker

If there are any discrepancies in these minutes please contact:

Sabina Khandaker

sabina_email@yahoo.com​