Monday, January 24, 2011

Saturday, January 22, 2011

February PAC Meeting Notice and Agenda

Date: Feb 07, 2011
Time: 7pm
Location: School Library

Babysitting and refreshments available

Meeting Agenda:
1. Welcome/Intros
2. Acceptance of Dec 2010 minutes as circulated
3. Reports and Updates
  • Principal’s Report/Update- Kathie
  • Head Teacher’s Report/Update- Elaine J.
  • Treasurer’s update- Ranjit
  • Fundraising Update- Nicole
  • Playground Committee Update- Nicole/Mary
  • DPAC Update/report- Dawayne/Donna
  • Earthquake (?)- Hank
  • SPC Update- Dawayne
4. New Business:
  • March meeting
  • Multi Cultural Evening
  • Workshop update- DPAC Funding of Sexual Health Speaker/ logistics
  • Next Year’s Executive slate- review of upcoming vacancies
  • Parking
  • Other

Friday, January 21, 2011

Burnaby DPAC presents Building Resiliency in Children on Wed, Feb 9, 2011

Presenter: Kathleen Rea, RN, BA, MC Psych
Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011
Time: 7 pm to 8:45 pm  Doors open at 6:30 pm
Location: Schou Education Centre 4041 Canada Way

The Building Resiliency in Children presentation will include the following topics:
What is resiliency, the importance of resiliency in children and adults, how to foster this in our children, and how to foster this in ourselves as parents, and in communities. Throughout this presentation is also building resiliency within various profiles (i.e. the anxious child, depression, ADHD, no mental health issues)

Kathleen Rea, RN, BA, M.C.Psych has 8 years experience working at the Provincial ADHD clinic and Children’s hospital as well as generalized counsellor in private practice. At the clinic Kathleen has ran and developed the parent program and instituted an education program for teachers and community. Kathleen’s focus has been to help support families and individuals experiencing mental health problems cope, flourish and empower their potential.
Space is very limited! Pre-Registration required.
Please complete online registration at http://www.burnabydpac.com/ and click on the Register
for Events. For more information, please email info@burnabydpac.com.
IMPORTANT: Due to the popularity of these events and space limitations, unfortunately parents who arrive without pre-registration will be turned away.Avoid this awkward situation and register now!
Wed, Feb 9, 2011

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Chinese Chit-Chat Committee: Canada Tax Return for the year 2010

Chaffey-Burke普通话聊天室: 加拿大2010年税务座谈会(国语发音)


Topic: Canada Tax Return for the year 2010

  • 日期:二零一一年一月二十七日(星期四)
  • Date: January 27th, 2011 (Thursday)
  • 时间:下午一时三十分至二时五十分
  • Time: 1:30 to 2:50 pm up
  • 地点(Venue):Chaffey-Burke “Staff Room”  Second floor
  • Speaker: Laura (Mandarin); Bertha (Cantonese)
Agenda:
  • 1:30-2:10 Introduction of “2010 Tax return application Form”
  • 2:10-2:50 Questions time
查询(Enquiries)

Ellen雅兰  , Cui-Hong翠红 or Serina佳桦 at 778-859-7316

Important Note:

  • This Chaffey-Burke Chinese Chit-Chat Committee is run by Chinese-speaking parent-volunteers
  • If you have any question, please contact Serina at 778-759-7316. Do not call the school office. Thank you.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

School snow closure website & Parent's Guide to Facebook

This is Burnaby School District's website for school closures due to inclement weather: http://sd41.bc.ca/parents/weather_closure.htm

And this is a link to A Parent's Guide to Facebook - The resource is from Connectsafely.org and from this link you can read or print a pdf.
http://www.connectsafely.org/Safety-Advice-Articles/facebook-for-parents.html