MINUTES – October 9^th Meeting

TOPIC	DISCUSSION POINTS	PRESENTER	ACTION
Previous Meeting Minutes	- Reviewed minutes. Sheila Bailey noted a change to the 2001/2002 WHO Plan. Instead of $200 for field trip buses, it should be $200 for the front garden - Status of action items: No outstanding action items remain.	Marisa Di Monte
Principal’s Report	AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMME - Registration will take place Monday Oct.15^th. First class to be Oct. 18^th. 9 weeks on Tuesday and Thursday after school - Similar fee structure as last year $25 per course (+ mat’l fee) - Wide variety of programmes offered EQAO – - Ministry organization that runs the annual assessments - In addition to the current gr 3 and 6 tests, several new assessments will be added starting in 2002: - Grades 4 and 7 Language and Science - Grades 5 and 8 Math and Social studies - Grade 9 Science - Grade 10 History - Grade 11 English and Math DISCIPLINE NOTES – Student use of electronic devices is prohibited at school – parents should advise their children to leave such valuables at home LUNCH ROOM COMMITTEE - Committee will consist of Andrea Lall, Sheila Bailey, Kathy Rose and two teachers to discuss the role and duty of the supervisor. PHYSICAL HEALTH AND ACTIVITY - - We will be taking part in a survey to assess the physical activity for our students conducted by the Public Health Dept - Sports clubs are starting during the lunch hour - Special event days (Walk your kids to school, Jump rope) - We have the opportunity to take kids skating however we now have to pay for ice time and all children must have a CSA approved ice (not bike) helmet—this may prohibit some students from participating. Since cancellation of such skating days penalizes the children who are equipped, staff is going to seek a compromise where students without access to proper equipment would be involved in some other winter activity. Andrea will discuss the logistics for this with the staff. - Mrs Doherty discussed the success of the Walk to School Day and that most students participated to some degree. Would be nice to extend it to a more frequent event.	Andrea Lall	Action 1: Lunchroom Committee will meet and develop code of conduct Action 2: Andrea Lall will discuss the logistics of the skating issue with staff and report and next meeting
School Nurse	- Ms Dash’s background: assigned to 20 different schools in the last 4 years – she is currently responsible for 10 schools. - The nurses do not have a physical presence in the schools any longer. - Public health is really concerned about inactivity in children and increased incidence of childhood obesity, diabetes and high cholesterol. - Encouraged having a weekly walking program through competitions with other schools - VIDEO – showed the importance of setting up a walk to school programme. - Public health is doing an evaluation of the quality of physical education executed by our students. - Active school awards – programme available for school	Lee Dash	Action 3: Andrea Lall will consider a regular walk to school day Action 4: Andrea Lall will discuss the active school awards programme with Mr Cho
Membership & Committees	Status report from “quarterbacks”		Action 5: Jackson Orellana / Sheila Bailey to send letter out to class reps. Action 6: Marisa Di Monte to convene a meeting of the Enrichment committee Action 7: Miriam Collins to kick off Christmas Bazaar work Action 8: Roshene Lawson to convene a meeting of the Appropriate Dress Committee Action 9: Gul Tukrel to convene a meeting of the C/T committee
	- Class Parent Rep.- Have volunteers for each class. Letters still to go out	Jackson Orellana
	- Pizza Lunch – over $5000 collected although volunteers are still needed for distribution	Miriam Collins
	- Enrichment fund - Mrs Samuelson asked that volunteers on a trip to the Kortright Centre be subsidized since the Centre now charges adult helpers a fee. There is now money available to start contributing to field trips	Marisa Di Monte
	- BARS - Joan Kitchen has the programme up and running	Joan Kitchen
	- Christmas Bazaar – Miriam will call a meeting soon.	Miriam Collins
	- Web site coordinator – Ron reported that there was some difficulty in accessing web space. The Board has space however, any content must be approved by the principal. Thus, the feasibility of an exchange site is unlikely. The Hollywood Web site would be a site where parents could access info like newsletters, minutes and special events. Updates will be made monthly.	Ron Chan
	- Appropriate Dress committee – Roshene has contacted various schools about their dress codes and will call a meeting soon.	Roshene Lawson
	- Curriculum/ testing committee – Gul will call a meeting in October.	Gul Tukrel
	- Gift wrap fundraiser: Carol reported that catalogues for this fundraiser will be coming home in next week’s Friday file. Order forms should be back in by Oct 29 and the orders delivered by Nov 27. We need to sell $5000 (avg.$18/kid) to make our target of $1,800 profit.	Carol Banwell
	- Halloween candy fundraiser – cancelled	Kamlesh Tukrel
	- “other” fundraiser – may be cancelled if we don’t need it
Treasurer’s Report	- Presented income / expense report - Starting balance of ($4). Lunch programme and fundraising donation brings the balance to $6,596.82 - MANY THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO DONATED TO THE FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE. DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED ON AN ONGOING BASIS!	Kamlesh Tukrel
Review of Goals	Briefly discussed the goals again and were agreed upon by those present. 1. Appropriate dress policy 2. Phase II playground 3. Lunchroom supervisor code of conduct 4. Role in after school program 5. Convene C&T committee 6. Fundraising Budget 7. Address issues as they arise	Sheila Bailey
Other Business	- Email group / Contact list – Many errors and typos in the collection of the email contact list made for a very onerous job. Some discussion about streamlining this for next year. Marisa has had some trouble accessing the Yahoo Hollywood Group. Roshene offered to help contact Dian Emery - Childcare at meetings – it was decided to continue to provide childcare - Jump rope for Heart volunteers - 4 parents volunteered for Fri Oct.12 @1pm - Library Board Community representative – does anyone want to join? - Playground deficiency list – Andrea Lall discussed the frustration at getting M. Achilles to return calls about the pending items? - Cultural understanding / tolerance – Andrea agreed that many of the social skills that teachers teach in each grade are part of the Second Steps programme, but that many arise in every day discussions. A consultant from the Board would be conducting Second Steps workshops for the teachers and for some students. - As for cultural understanding, these issues are handled in every day classroom activities and discussions. So far there hasn’t seemed to be a need to pursue this further despite the events of September 11.	Richard Western	Action 10: Roshene Lawson to contact Dian about the Hollywood WHO group. Action 11: Roshene / Andrea to pursue getting the playground deficiencies addressed Action 12: Andrea to keep parents informed about the Second Steps programme and encourage teachers to keep parents posted through classroom newsletters.
Next Meeting	Next meeting – Nov 12, 2001 7:00	Marisa Di Monte