Council Meeting October Minutes

RES Student Council Meeting

October 12, 2016

Attendance: Loni Sala, Jen Smith, Carmen Lowry, Mr.Hogg, Elaine Ross, Jamie Jensen,

Lindsey Baldry, Tasha Reeve, Connie Shurtz, Cheri Gilbert, Lyndsi Coppieters, Jessica Salmon, Rachel Miller.

Rachael: Thank you to all who have helped volunteer & fill spots when needed. We really appreciate the help with different activities.

Voting of Members;

·         Communications Director- Connie Shurtz

All in Favor- Majority Vote

·         Member at large- Christal Bevans

All in Favor- Majority Vote

Connie: Divisional School Council Meeting

·        Round table reports with other schools

·        Activities done at different schools & RES ; Back to school night, meet the teacher night , Christmas program & selling $1 raffle tickets, science fair, 1^st day of school breakfast

·        There is a strong focus on the First Nations ; SLA’s Gr. 3

·        Divisional Goals ; Literacy Blankets where given to all Gr. 1 students as well as a book.

The Division as a whole wants to have every student reading at their grade level & promote reading.

·         Communications to parents is very important.

·         Parent Council is there to provide administration & staff with support. We can offer suggestions & we are here to plan/follow through with activities

·         There is a Meeting Monday October 17, 2016 @ 7pm at the Public Library  on the

West Side of Lethbridge

Lindsey: Family School Dance Overview

·        Next year we would like a council member taking pictures

·        Volunteering & cake donations were wonderful! Thank you!

·        Everyone will need to have a specific job next time so all spots are covered

·        Entrance $612.00 ; Auction $1759.50 – Total Amount $2371.50

Expense $175; Money left for movement equipment is $2,196.50.

·         We will be buying bigger pieces for now & doing a classroom rotation of who uses them

·         $1,000 was committed to the S.O.S program from last year

·         Winners by division, DV 1 -Bohner      DV 2 -Fairbanks

·         Santa’s Gone Loonie- will help Magrath but we aren’t taking a big role in that this year

·         This year our school will be doing the Christmas Shoe Boxes & assignments will be handed out by class.

Loni: Alberta School Council Meeting

·        albertaschoolcouncils.ca

·        Alberta School Councils video

·        Provincial achievement test results

·        Focus on the lower division literacy effort

·         Communications – email, newsletters, etc. for parents

·         School Council newsletters

·         How do we feel RES is doing in communications? Improvements?

·         Do we have an effective school council?

·         We want to enhance student educations for all students

·         Purpose of Student Council is to be involved

Mr.Hogg & Elaine Ross: Literacy Project

·         Each Gr.1 student was given a blanket & book at an opening assembly

·         We are promoting an early love for reading & the blankets are meant to be with them when they doing their reading

·         We are doing continued education classes for our teachers to assist them in new learn techniques in teaching literacy

·         Robyn Bright has been a special teacher guest in running a class to promote new styles of teaching. She is coming for two hours every five weeks & each teacher has a book written by her to study out of.

·         We are looking at the idea in the future of having a link for parents to get some of the same training our teacher is receiving.

·         The new bookshelf by the front door of the school is the give a book/take a book

Each child in the school is allowed to take a book & return it with a new one or the same one they borrowed. We are wanting them to read as many new books as they can.

·         Student Council would love to have a teacher come & present for us some of the things that are being learned in the extra literacy classes.

·         We are encouraging family reading

·         We have some reading intervention programs that we are starting to enhance reading experiences

·          There is a new bulletin board by the office & it is a “get caught reading”.  Parents can send in pictures of their children reading a book wherever

·         Grade teams are meeting every 5 weeks to discuss students, concerns & reading levels of each child in the school

·         Would there be people on the council or community who would like to head up the reading blankets? It would be 100+ blankets to give to the next coming years of Gr.1 students

Dates:

·         Monday farm safety will start

·         October 18 & 19^th- book fair in the library

·         October 25^th -morning only picture retakes

·         October 31^st -Halloween & the parade @1:00

·         November 3^rd- Gr. 6 Play

·         November 10^th – Remembrance Day program @ 10am

Jen W. & Rachael: Healthy Snack Fridge

·        There is a letter being sent out to tell the purpose & rules of conduct with the fridge

·        We now have cutting lists & people from the committee will be calling to have people help them.

·        We would still LOVE to have people volunteer cutting & bagging items for the fridge

·        Petty Cash System?

Next Parent Council Meeting is Wednesday November 9, 2016 @ 9:00am