School Council Minutes - Monday, February 3, 2025

• Teacher recommendations for kindergarten playground upgrades were documented: 2 tables with bins, large cart, plastic toys.
• Request was made for $2000 in Feb 2025 with an additional $1000 in Spring 2025.
• Early education consultants will be involved in outdoor learning projects. $2000 has been approved by the council.

• Rehearsals are going in full swing.
• The Winter concert date has been finalized for Thursday, February 6, 2025.

• Student voices suggested locker decoration for birthdays.
• Their Goals are towards school, division, and community. Food drive was a successful community driven event hosted by student voices.
• ProGRANT- speaker recommendations were discussed. Parent council recommendations: Paul Davis. Alternative ideas are welcome- Math night, Trivia

• Culture day has been rescheduled to February 25th from 9 30 am to 4 30 pm. due to conflicting elections on February 27th. Parents are welcome to attend after school hours- 3 15- 4 30 pm.
• For effectiveness, culture day is to be considered for 2 half days next year - this will be discussed next year.

See below  for assignments and updated budgets.

The following items were purchased upon last meeting’s approval: 

• $3000- Music program- 3 clarinets ordered. - Purchased
• Wipebooks- 3x of previous request purchased due to demand. Purchased
• $220- KG- Grade 2 Blue Spruce Club- Purchased
• $500- Current events resource subscription for Jr students- IXL & What in the World - Purchased
• $500- Health & Wellbeing Snack program- no longer required. A public health grant of $500 has been received for the lunch program.
• $200- Karaoke machine and board games in the wellness room Purchased, 12 board games were donated from the community.
• Decodable texts- Pending.
• $800- Outdoor games- Sand and snow toys to be ordered.
• $600- Calming bins and fidgets
• Other supplies purchased through school council monies:
  • Culture day supplies- display boards and table clothes, flags.
  • Field day subsidy is in use.

• Number of registrants for Winter lunch time programs: Roma Crafts- 13; Allegro- 14; Chess- 15; Act One- 25.
• It has been decided that 4 classes may be too many programs due to conflict of other in school events like sports and board games- The winter programs should be targeted to juniors.
• The number of springtime programs (April-June) were discussed. It has been decided that Roma crafts and/or Chess may not work due to lower turnout. 1- 2 max programs would be ideal.
• Paid sports programs was voted down. Mad Science, Robotics, and JJB Futbolito were suggested. York Hills- Jr/ Intermediate- building self-esteem, social skills- supplementary social skills program was recommended.
• Time constraints between Culture club, Music, Basketball and Volleyball was mentioned.

• 529 orders were placed in the previous rotation.
• 5-week lunch options- March 17- April 18; April 21- May 23; May 26- June 20 ▪ Persian food- Shishlicks has been finalized. Beef $10-ground beef with rice. Chicken $11 with rice. Grilled veggie is $9 with rice + HST. Prices to be marked up by $1. However, it has been flagged that the restaurant does not add labels and hence there is a need for more volunteers.
• Yamato- Korean/ Japanese, Bar Burrito, Subway and Pizza- Korean/ Japanese will be renewed for next rotation.
• Lunches are to be opened on School cash online on Feb 24th and closed March 6 th.
• It has been flagged that Subway prices may go up.

Mehrak to confirm Labels + HST for Shishlicks asap.

Other options for next rotation: Indian lunches- Delhi spices- $10 for chicken, $9 for paneer or $7 for rice+ samosa. 

Cora’s will be cancelled.

• Valentines Ice cream will be distributed on Valentines Day for those who preordered.
• Coming soon- Purdys- Spring fundraiser has been confirmed.
• May 7- Krispy Crème fundraiser
• Grad trip is booked for the last week of the school year.

• Family fitness night will take place on Thursday, January 30th, 2025.
• Self defense (adult taekwondo) or family taekwondo- about 9 participants have signed up for each option for a Sunday workshop. Family Taekwondo has been voted. Date is TBD- Feb 23 or Mar 2 upon discussion with Tiger Kicks.