Date: September 16, 2019 Time: 7:00pm-8:45pm

Parent Council Attendees:

Parent Attendees: Geetha Kannanchath

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 June 2019 Meeting Minutes (Amanda)

-Marie accepted the minutes and Chris seconded the motion

3)   Introduction of School Admin and it’s Role (Scott/ Vivienne)

-Scott and Vivienne introduced themselves

-they have met with the leadership team to develop vision for this year

-will develop shared solutions with input from the community

-focus to create a welcoming community and receive input from parents and students

4)   Introduction of Council Members and Attendees (All)

-introduction of all attendees and council members

-20 individuals filled out the form to become a committee member

-last year the committee voted to have 19 council members

5)   Review of Council Protocols, Roles and Responsibilities (Amanda)

-the roles for each Executive Member were reviewed including the Chair, Vice-Chair, Past Chair Treasurer and Secretary

-reviewed that there are sub-committees which council members would need to sign up for

6)   Nomination of Executive Roles (All)

Nominations were put forth and voting took place, the results were as follows:

-Amanda Cartan was voted in as Chair

-Chris Zarras was voted in as Vice-Chair

-Susan Reid was voted in as Past- Chair

-Kristine Sabourin was voted in as Secretary

-Liz MacFarlane was voted in as Treasurer

7)   Treasurer’s Report 2018/ 2019 (Kelly)

-hot lunches raised $5000

-Cornell-A-Thon raised $ 6000

-Fun fair raised $3200

a.    Review of raised and allocated funds (Amanda/ Scott)

-funds allocated to water filling station upstairs which has been purchased and installed

-coding equipment was purchased as per school’s request

-there are some laptop and chromebook carts, two tech tubs; each class also has some technology in the room

-each kindergarten class has next generation Smart board

-3D printer purchased last year, located in library

-plan to take advantage of the board’s cost sharing technology program again this year

-will revisit an assessment and cost for the outdoor classroom which includes the building of a retaining wall so the soil doesn’t keep washing away

8)   Description and Sign Up For Committees (Amanda)

-a review was given of the sub-committees

-forms were circulated for members to sign up for sub-committees

9)   Update From School (Scott/ Vivienne)

- as of July 2019 CVPS became the holding school for Southeast 5

-plan to put ball catcher in kindergarten area

-there is interest in getting art and music technology for the school

-a new baritone was purchased

-the school owns all their instruments

-there is a student voice committee that will be doing a survey

-Me To We has started

-there will be a robotics YRDSB competition that CVPS will participate in

-house teams will be running this year; students have been given colours and work as a team; currently, the focus is on ‘kindness’

-there are 6 different trees associated with the different colours

-October 17th is tentative kick off day:  will develop cheers, team building activities; focus is on doing challenges together and developing a welcoming place

-having older kids as leaders and interacting with younger kids

-will create shirts for the house league teams that would be available for purchase; Chris will look into the order for the shirts and obtain a quote

-CVPS received Gold last year for being an eco-school; Myka explained how to obtain points to reach each level to receive recognition for being eco-friendly

-there is only one caretaker in the evenings

-whenever there are events, the caretaker requested that there be volunteers to cleanup afterwards

-in the main hallway near the school entrance doors, there will be one board dedicated to theme of the month and another board dedicated to Ontario Heritage Months

10)   New Business (All)

a.    Orientation Night

-will take place on September 25, 2019

-there will be food trucks and ice-cream from 5-6pm

-meet the teachers from 6-7pm