Chaffey Burke PAC meeting is at 7pm Monday, December 06, 2010 but our location has changed to the STAFF ROOM to accommodate the book fair. All welcome! Babysitting provided.
PAC Meeting Minutes
Monday, Nov 1st, 2010
Round table/Intros: Mary MacKillop, Chair
The PAC meeting opened by Mary at 7:05pm, 22 parents and 2 faculty were in attendance and participating students for workshop and 1 student from SFU. Round table of introductions commenced.
Updates/Reports:
Principal: Kathie Cornell
- All day kindergarten: total 85 students (we can accept max of 3 more) and new safety gate was installed on the west side of the lower field for extra security.
- Old computers are being refurbished for classroom use and laptops come in this week, there will be one cart of laptops for each floor of the school.
- School is maxed out for space, no more classrooms available (which is why we no longer have a computer lab and are using carts)
- Volleyball season has commenced.
- Teachers arriving from China for a knowledge exchange
- Student Teachers from SFU are in place.
Treasurer: Ranjit Bharaj
- Budget circulated and updated to September 2010.
Fundraising: Nicole Geyer
- Collected approximately $1700 from direct donation letter so far
- Still looking for ideas/feedback for Logo wear
- Ideas including a talent show for the annual fundraiser
Presentation
First Speaker: Louise Rusch from Burnaby Parks and Recreation
- Louise gave an introduction to the availability of all the after school programs scheduled from Jan 2011 in our community.
- Louise also asked for feedback from parents about programs that they are interested in having for the kids and gave feedback on which programs have worked well and those that have not, and those that we cannot host because the school does not have the equipment or facilities (ie. Guitar lessons)
Second Speaker: Mrs. Jaletma, Head Teacher
- Mrs. Jaltema offered a parenting session having students role play scenarios to demonstrate parenting strategies. Hand-outs were distributed to all the parents present. The class was appreciated very much by everyone.
Meeting adjourned at 9:00 pm
Next PAC meeting: Monday, Dec 6th 2010 in staff room 7:00pm which is also a holiday social.
Refreshments: A special thank you to all parents who graciously brought refreshments- delicious! Next meeting will be an open invitation for anyone interested in bringing goodies for the holiday celebration after the business meeting.
