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
Friday, January 21, 2011
Burnaby DPAC presents Building Resiliency in Children on 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)
- 1:30-2:10 Introduction of “2010 Tax return application Form”
- 2:10-2:50 Questions time
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
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Happy New Year Chaffey Burke PAC! And next meeting is on February 07, 2011
Happy New Year Chaffey Burke PAC!
I hope you and your families are having a wonderful holiday season!
I wish to take this opportunity to remind everyone there is No PAC Meeting in January.
Next PAC Meeting is:
Monday, February 07, 2011
7pm- School Library
Refreshments and Babysitting provided.
I hope to see many of you then!
All the best for the New Year!
Mary and your PAC Executive.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
PAC November Meeting Minutes / Dec. 06 meeting location changed to Staff Room
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.
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.
- Budget circulated and updated to September 2010.
- 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
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.
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.
