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ELIZABETH SCHOOL School Community Council (SCC) Elizabeth School Community Council Minutes
Elizabeth School Community Council Minutes
October 11, 2011
Present: Geralyn Allen, Shannon Booth-Elliott, Chris Oscar (Principal), Kathy Friesen (Teacher Rep.), Cynthia Dales, Kelly Gray, Danita Olafson. Missing: Chelsea Reed, Michele Cote, Karen Resch.
Meeting called to order at 7:00pm
Agenda a) Adoption of minutes Motion to adopt minutes from last meeting made by Danita O. Seconded Kelly G. Carried. b) No additions to minutes c) Adoption of agenda Motion to adopt agenda by Danita O. Seconded: Kelly G. Carried.
Treasurer’s Report a) General Account $216.92 b) Playground Account $32,502.24
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School Initiatives Account $1007.60
Administration Agenda a) School Safety Patrol SCC Liaison Kelly G. has been appointed the SCC liaison for the School Safety Patrol. b) Community Use of School Facilities Requests have come from: Santa’s Hut (December 16&17), Klippers Hockey (October 12), Kindersley Minor Hockey (October 22), Playschool (December 6) Motion to approve all requests by Danita O. Seconded: Kelly G. Carried. c) Items for Fundraising Chris compiled a list of a few non curricular items that fundraised dollars could be used for. Agenda Books $3000, $2000 was received from McDonalds from McHappy Days. The Karate Club gave money for SMART Board. The SMART Board is already installed. d) Teacher Report CAT Tests and AFL Testing has started. School assembly was held to thank students for the fundraising for the school playground in Tanzania. This assembly kicked of the Fall Bottle Drive to raise money for food for our school in Tanzania.
Old Business a) Playground i) Addition Committee met on September 29th. Blue Imp is mapping plan and will present drawing and cost to the committee. b) Electronic Device Policy Committee met and drafted a survey for the School Division to upload. c) Monkey Survey Results The survey ends on Oct 14th. The results will be presented at the next meeting. d) Stencils It was decided in consultation with Westberry School that the stencils would not be shared with other schools e) Park Area Clean-Up The clean-up went well. Students noticed the improvement. It is recommend that for the Spring clean-up that it be advertised to all school families. f) Garbage Can Update Kelly talked to the Town of Kindersley regarding the garbage can by the four way stop. The town passed on the information for the can they purchased. The can is similar to the ones we are able to purchase from Blue Imp. The town has agreed to empty the can on Elizabeth School grounds. Kelly will contact the town to get specifics in writing (ie: will they empty it all year or only when school is not in session?) Motion to purchase three waste receptacles from Blue Imp by Danita O. Seconded Kelly G. Carried. g) Poinsettia Update Cynthia and Danita will start working on this fundraiser. Order forms will go out later in October. Orders will need to be in by November 17th. h) Emailing of School Information The SCC has requested that a database be set-up of all families email addresses similar to Kindersley Minor Sports. The database would be used to send reminders to families about upcoming events etc.. i) Update from SWSD by Ruth Ruth distributed a printed booklet that will be distributed to all families within the SWSD. The booklet was designed to make families more informed.
New Business a) Parent Orientation Meetings Concerns were brought to members of the SCC’s attention on the length of the GR 6/7 parent orientation meeting. The lengthy meeting resulted from discussions of the new reporting system that is not percentage based. b) Ball Diamond Update The agreement with Sun West School Division has now officially been signed. The contract came into effect for September. The town of Kindersley are currently in the process of re-evaluating the water tie in for the best possible placement. Public works will hopefully be completing the tie-in prior to snow fall. The engineering of the diamonds is complete. The town is hoping to complete groundwork and irrigation, but time is slipping away and it may not be complete until next season. The sod or seed needs to fully take prior to heavy traffic on the area. Sun West had stated they could partition the entire back end off, so the kids would only have use of the front and immediate back end (where play centre is). The town has requested a meeting with Elizabeth School it will be held October 26th at 7pm. c) Hot Lunches The idea of paying for all hot lunches at the beginning of the year as an option was suggested. The SCC liked the idea but was concerned that since September was a heavy month already with paying for back to school and getting kids outfitted for activities. Chris will talk to Tammy at Westberry about how it works at their school and come back to the committee with information. d) Fundraising Idea Chelsea discussed the idea of a Cookbook fundraiser. Information that was handed out made the fundraiser look quite profitable. It was decided that since the Catholic Church has recently done a cookbook that we would table this idea to a further date. e) Meeting with Safety Patrollers Criteria for the Safety Patroller of the Month was discussed at the meeting. Kelly will present at one of the meetings on how important the patrollers are to the safety of the students. f) November Book Fair It will be looked into to see if high school students could work the book fair for their volunteer hours. Another idea is Kindersley Klippers who need to do volunteer hours. g) Newspaper Inquiry The letter that F. Chandler wrote in the Clarion was directed towards the School Division. She would like the School Division to have a discussion about student safety on the school yard. The School Division will be sending a letter to F. Chandler. Discussion to take place at public meeting on October 25 to see if the board needs to look into it further. h) Teacher/School Account The SCC has requested to see the School Accounts to verify items that are being spent. Chris explained that he will find some time to explain where school decentralized money goes and present it to the SCC. i) 2011-2012 SCC at a Glance The school yard cleanup in the spring will be added to the calendar. Shannon will send out a list of Annual Days that are relevant to children and could be focuses of activities or writing projects that the students do throughout the year.
Adjournment a) Next meeting of SCC: November 8, 2011 at 7:00pm. b) Meeting adjourned by Geralyn A. |