Minutes
SCI Parent Advisory Council for School Leadership
November 21, 2011
Attendance: Ross Martin, Kathy Andersson, John MacDonald, Pam MacDonald, Pat Ilchena, Bob Welsh, Monica Biggar, Suzanne Suffield, Gladys Hayward-Williams
Call to Order at 7:05 pm by Ross
Approval of Agenda: Motion (1) by Kathy, 2nd John. Carried.
Approval of Minutes: October 17, 2011: Motion (2) by John, 2nd Kathy. Carried.
Chairperson's Report: > On behalf of our parent council, Ross sent our letter to MAPC expressing our discontent about MAPC's refusal to accept our 2011 proposed resolution regarding transparency of meeting minutes. > On November 15, Ross attended the second Bus Community meeting held by the Transportation Department. Discussions continue surrounding grandfathered students and enforcement of the 1.6 km rule. Beausejour and Powerview areas now holding community meetings. > On October 25, the Fall DPAC meeting was held out in Beausejour. Ross, Kathy, Pam and John attended the meeting and found the information presented to be worthwhile. > Sunrise School Board will be holding it's budget meeting on December 1.
Principal's Report: > Wednesday, November 23 is WE Day Conference at MTS Centre. 72 students and 5 staff will be attending. November 25 is a PD Day. November 30 is Band Concert. December 5 is Jazz Concert. December 7 is Pancake breakfast. Proceeds from the Pancake breakfast go towards purchase of Christmas hampers. December 8 is Voluntary Withdrawal Date. December 22 is last day of school with 2:30 early dismissal. > Pat handed out the SCI 2012-2013 Maintenance Requests list and reviewed the items with the PAC. > Per Suzanne, Kids in the Know presenting on November 28 to Grade 9 students about Internet safety. > Suzanne talked to Orest Deneka, Principal at SMS, about finding a mutually convenient date for presentation on Internet Safety to both SMS and SCI Parent Councils. Graham Milliken, Canadian Center for Child Protection, will be the presenter. Date to be set in January or February, 2012.
Treasurer's Report: Motion (3) by Kathy, 2nd by John. Carried. See attached report.
Student Council's Report: No new information.
Correspondence: > Motion (4) to receive and file magician information by Pam, 2nd Kathy. Carried. Motion (5) to receive and file MAPC Fall newsletter and registration form by Kathy, 2nd John. Carried. Pam communicated the decision to nominate an SCI teacher for the Manitoba Excellence in Teaching Award in Fall, 2012.
Business arising from Minutes:
Field of Visions: > According to Kathy, next meeting on 28th. The group is still moving towards hiring a professional fundraiser to begin on January 1, 2012
SPPA: > According to Kathy, Peak of the Market fundraiser just finished. Unofficially, $5,000 in product sold between SMS and SCI with a 45% profit to the individual student accounts. > December 14, 15 SMS Concerts. >Manitoba Community Services Council notified Kathy that her grant will be reviewed on December 13. > SPPA has been chosen by the Grade 12 Business class, to receive the benefit of their hard work, as charitable organization. They will be planning a dinner in April, 2012 with SMS and SCI Jazz bands and Vocal Jazz performing. The proposed feature entertainment will be Jetstream, from the Royal Air Command Band.
New Business:
Ideas for engaging parents in 21st century learner's brain: Bob has approached the learning teams associated with 21st century learner's brain and they'd like to make a presentation to our PAC about what they've learned. Date to be set sometime in March or April, 2012. > We asked about reading material we could research and were pointed towards Time Magazine and National Geographic. Pam will research articles and write a small article about what we've learned to be included with the next school newsletter.
Date of next meeting: January 16, 2012 at 7:00 pm in school library
