Prince Andrew Parent Council Meeting Minutes Date: November 15, 2011 Attendance: Mr. ONeil, Mr.

Palazzolo, Mr. Harris, Heather Dureno, Debbie Wall, Darlene Klingbile, Gina Gillen, Jen Gillen, Trish Hearn, Jen Saxton, Krista Fraser 1. Hot Food Day Pizza Day was very successful. $558.25 collected, $370.50 paid out for a profit of $187.75. Participation was 206 out of 365 students. Next Hot Food Day is Sub Day on November 25. Please let Deb know if you are interested in helping out. 2. Grade 8 Fundraising Bake Sale October 31 raised over $900.00 which was split evenly between each childs account. The grade 8s have asked to have the profits from their candle orders go directly to their fund for their graduation trip and graduation ceremony. Vote taken. Approved. The grade 8s have asked that they be given 1 food day next year (sub or pizza day) as well as a monthly draw for a basket or cake. A draw will also be held at the Christmas concert on December 15th. Clarification requested that the grade 8 (and parents) would be responsible for running the food day as well as the raffles. This would be the case. Vote taken. Approved. 3. Fundraiser Update Regal has made over $400.00 so far. This fundraiser closes December 31, 2011. 2 pottery orders have been received so far. Candle, pottery and magazine subscription information to follow after the order deadline has passed and orders can be totalled. 4. Treasurers Report $4031.36 in the bank. Agreed $3000.00 of that money should be set aside for the 50th anniversary fair as there will be start-up costs and payments due in advance of the event. Mr. Palazzolo to contact an Anderdon parent and request that she meet with Heather in regards to running the fair as she has some experience planning these types of events. Possible to get local businesses to sponsor booths at the fair and have senior students volunteer to work the booths. We could extend to in house businesses first. Current fundraising money is being raised for classroom libraries. 5. Principals Report Celebrations a) Progress Reports Mr. Palazzolo commented that when reviewing the progress reports the quality of reports really stood out. Expectations have been set at a high level and the teachers are meeting that high standard. Mr. ONeil added that our teachers really care and he is pleased to say that this caring translates into more care and time put into the reports .

b) Parent Library Applied for a grant last year for Bring your Parent to school day and also for a Parent Library. It has been put together and tracking is in place. Recently this library has been used by children as well as parents. It is proving to be a very valuable resource for our school community. The books are kept in a small room off of the office cool down room. Kept on a shelf and there is a tracking system in place. c) Bring your Parent to school day. Pleased that we had a bit of media attention in the LaSalle Post. d) Continue to work on Home School communication. There is a binder kept in the office to track the communication sent home to parents. Feedback is being given to teachers. e) Remembrance Day Celebration very nice assembly. Many Parents attended as well as the students. f) A group of students attended a leadership conference in Guelph a couple weeks ago. The plan is that they will come back and use these tools they have learned to run intermurals. g) Grades 7 and 8 students are using TIPS program in Math Heavily technology based and does not follow a text book. The point of TIPS is to engage them in the class with less emphasis on work sent home. There is more info available if anyone is interested. h) Focus on Writing in Primary, Reading in Junior and Math in Intermediate i) Recognizing understanding and using text forms features and stylistic elements. j) To be good writers our children need these skills. Our children tend to score lower in this area so this is something we continue to work on. Need Help with a) Technology in school Possibly purchase iPads for TIPS b) Classroom libraries. Fundraising currently to supplement these libraries. Will continue to monitor needs. c) Rising levels of expectation (balance of meeting individual needs of families while maintaining standard levels of service for everyone). Is this something Council can assist with? d) Kindergarten Registration in February - Very important event. Big decisions are made based on those numbers. Can we run the open house the same way as last year as it was very successful? Edge Imaging offered to do the ID tags for kids at the open house. The challenge for us is getting people in the door. Are there things that we arent doing that we could do? Suggestion to advertise in Early Years Centres, Day Cares and possibly other Preschool Programs. e) Visit from Life Touch photographer this year we used Edge Imaging we could discuss Life Touch for next year. They offer full body shots as well as head shots. Would they be willing to offer services at our open house? f) Anna has offered to do GST rebate application because as non-profit we are eligible if we want to dig up receipts we of course want to take advantage of that. Receipts to be forwarded to her. g) Nothing heard yet on playground working on drainage system but stalled until that issue is resolved. h) Issue brought up in regards to the pavement on the playground. There no money at this time for new pavement but that we can put in work request to have it patched.

Next Meeting: December 6, 2011 3:30pm