Join other parents and Community Members and meet with the Administrative Staff at SCI in a relaxed environment. The meetings are held monthly in the SCI Library. All are welcome. If you have a topic of interest or would just like to meet and share ideas in a comfortable atmosphere, please come out. This is a great opportunity to learn about your child's school. Contact Person is Theresa Spapens, 755-2643.

The next meeting dates will be posted on the sci website calendar. There is also a mail box for the Parent Council in the school office if you have any information you would like to drop off.







Sunday, December 12, 2010

Minutes

SCI Parent Advisory Council for School Leadership

October 25, 2010

Attendance: Pam MacDonald, Cassandra Kiernicki, Monica Biggar, Kathy Andersson, Donna Walby-Lawson, Bob Welsh, Ross Martin, Pat Ilchena, John MacDonald, Doraine Wachniak

  1. 1.) Call to Order: by Donna Walby-Lawson at 6:33 pm

  2. 2.) Approval of Agenda: Motion (1) by Ross Martin, 2nd by Kathy Andersson, Carried.

  3. 3.) Approval of Minutes: May 4/10 Motion (2) by Ross Martin, 2nd by Pam MacDonald, Carried.

  • September 27/10 Motion (3) by Kathy Andersson, 2nd by Ross Martin, Carried.

  • October 6/10 Motion (4) by Ross Martin, 2nd by Kathy Andersson, Carried

  1. Chairperson's report:

  • On Oct 13, Ross Martin, Pam MacDonald and Kathy Andersson met with Pat Ilchena and John McDonald, head custodian for a walk through the school for suggestions to school board on school improvements. The date of school board meeting is some time in December. A preliminary list should be prepared for board by the ACSL council.

  • On October 14, Kathy Andersson, Ross Martin, Pam MacDonald and Mike Lawson attended the Divisional PAC meeting in Beausejour: Kathy said that Gary Walker did a 1/2 hour presentation on transportation, booklets provided with more information; Derek Ryback gave a 1/2 hour presentation on maintenance; Wayne Leckie, superintendent of schools, reviewed ENDS monitoring report. Also, he will be undertaking the development of Code of Conduct and surveys of parents, staff and students

  1. Student Council report: by Cassandra Kiernicki:

  • Thursday, Oct 28, Halloween dance, selling tickets

  • Gym blast, Nov 24

  • 7 students including Mr. Jacobs attended the Manitoba Student Leadership Council

  • Halloween for hunger: student groups going door to door, collecting non-perishable food items on Sunday night between 6 and 9 pm (SMS involved as well) Routes are assigned and groups are formed in Oakbank, Dugald and Anola. Donations given to Anola food bank

  1. Principal's report:

  • SSD surveys have been received by school with tight deadline of November 2, students did theirs Oct 25, staff will be doing it soon, e-mail will be sent to parents to do on-line

  • November 10 Remembrance day service at 11 am

  • November 10 Parent Teacher interviews

  • November 3 Report card goes home with interview time information

  • As discussed during walk through with ACSL members, here's a list of SCI maintenance/upgrades requested for 2010: camera upgrade needed (2nd year ongoing request); ventilation in room 29 and 33 (automotive and electronics); work benches in room 29; art room renovations; science room renovations; painting some of the classrooms; school front entrance remodel (low priority); Rooms 1-23 renovations including mill work, electric, ceiling (med to high priority); parking lot resurfacing; replace flooring in cafeteria (this summer?); heater covers; hallway baseboard replacements (this summer?); T-bar and tile replacement in west end hallways of school; southeast area boys washroom renovation; grooming room renovations and special needs; bricks on outside have grout fatiguing, problems with insulation, public finance looking into it. Kathy Andersson requested more picnic tables out front of school. Good project for school council.

  1. Treasurer's report: by Kathy Andersson:

  • Kathy, Pam MacDonald and Donna Walby-Lawson visited the Oakbank Credit Union to be added as signatories on account.

  • Motion (5) by Kathy Andersson requesting that next year's Minutes state everyone being added and everyone being removed with full names and titles of council members. 2nd by Ross Martin, Carried.

  • $125 has been applied for by Kathy.

  1. Correspondence:

  • Grand Occasions catalog received and given to Cassandra to give to Grad committee

  • The Manitoba Celebration of Excellence in Teaching Awards should be discussed at the next executive meeting

  1. Business arising from minutes:

  • Consent forms: According to Monica Biggar, since PHN is only located at Teen Links, and not on school property, consent forms are not needed. The AFM worker is operating without consent but Monica is checking with Wayne whether consent is needed. The social worker does need parental consent.

  • Board of Trustees Apr 8/10 presentation/ response: According to Ross, no action will be taken this year but hopefully new trustees will be taking action in Jan 2011.

  • Lunch monitor update: According to Bob Welsh, we had 4 people but are down to 3 so it's time to put some feelers out to find more people; Donna will put the word out with her library volunteers.

  • Field of Visions: Cassandra said executive meeting was held and council members elected; have approached some people to see if they'd like to get involved; Kathy said they have received in-kind donations like sod and are looking into government funding; also looking into donor wall; revisions were made to constitution

  • SPPA: Kathy said: Mr. LeClaire is stepping down; his position is posted. Applications are being reviewed; Kathy to prepare paragraph to be included in SCI newsletter looking for volunteers

  • Divisional day with David Warlick. Kathy asked if his presentation was available for viewing on-line. Video of his presentation was not made, but if interested, you can visit his website to see his visions of the future of education in the 21st century.

  1. New Business:

  • Motion (6) by Kathy Andersson to create ad hoc committee consisting of Doraine, Ross and Kathy to review constitution, 2nd by Ross, Carried.

  • Parental Survey Feedback: already discussed

  • Guest speaker for November: Bruce Schacht, AFM, Ryan Neufeld, social worker, not available until Jan/11, Monica to confirm. Pat to talk to 3 teachers: Linda Duplak, Zig Thiessen, and Marijka Collier, talent development teachers, to see if they'd present at Nov meeting

  • Parental Involvement: Donna talked to one parent about joining through the library but that person didn't attend. Kathy invited Doraine to join as Community Member. Kathy asked if SCI newsletter could let people know one week ahead of time of meeting. Pat said can't be done due to system limitation. Pam to communicate with Chris Schofield to add link in calendar about who's speaking at November meeting. Also, John suggested promoting the November speaker on the SCI website. Meet the teacher night, we had newsletters prepared but Pat's not sure how many were taken.

  • Budget Letter: Need date of board meeting. Pat to see if date is posted on website.

11) Date of next meeting: Nov 29th, at 7 pm at library and Jan 17, 2011 at 7 pm

12) Adjournment at 8:28 pm by Donna Walby-Lawson

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