Meeting started on or around 7:10 pm.
Meeting started with 18 parents (11 Exec; 2 school; rest parents); some parents joined afterwards
(cliff/Sheeba) Land acknowledgement
- Cliff intro:
o Pancake Breakfast – shoutouts
o C&B update
o PAC meeting dates
o PAC table sessions (coming back) - Adoption of last Meeting Minutes – motioned (Jenn J.); seconded (Vicky) – adopted
- DPAC Update (Irina):
o Last meeting Nov 20 th
o Social emotional regulation topic (Will):
Mental health; diff levels of community; diff levels of support
Emotional development goes all the way up to age 25 - CPF update (Vicky):
o French film festival – Feb 9 th (12:30 at Metrotown Cineplex); CPF still in working progress
(Andrew) more interest this year by teachers/classes; also because of earlier
notice; the name of the movie would be good to have to make the decision for
classes whether to go
o Book subscriptions – currently delayed (from France) but it’s on its way
o Summer camps – planning to hold them still; however, the location will be different this
year – Charles Rummel is not available
- Budget update (Jevy):
- Pancake Breakfast (Liv):
- Hot Lunch (Livia)
- Safety:
o (Sheeba) Stay safe/babysitting
Reminder of dates
Will be sending out reminders closer to the dates
o (Cliff/Phil) Emergency Preparedness
Replenished all the backpacks (the ones in each of the classrooms)
Good for another year on the supplies - Fun Fair (Kelly):
o Solid team; got a treasurer
o Date has been set for Friday, May 31st
o Received volunteer contact list (from Pancake Breakfast)
o Next meeting coming up Jan 21 st
o Starting to setting some goals; will need to start canvassing (late January/early February)
o Setting fundraising goal – Emergency Preparedness, including tents, tables, chairs etc - Grade 7 Committee:
o Twoonie Tuesdays – selling Kernels popcorn Jan 23, feb 20 th , mar ?
o Starting to collect gr 7 parent contact information
o School leaving ceremony and graduation ceremony event
o Looking for suggestions for graduation event venues
o Yearbook in the works – looking for photos
- Quebec/Ottawa Trip committee (Karin):
o Roughly about 40 students; about 12 students that are participating in the fundraising
efforts (proceeds will be divvyed up amongst those that help with the fundraising)
o Did some fundraisers:
Bottle drive; Purdy’s chocolate
o Doing some more fundraisers
Me & Ed’s night
Krispy Kreme sales (in February) - Fruits & Veggies (Eva):
o Halfway through the program; 5 delivered and 5 more for rest of the year
o Upcoming item is cheesestrings but too many allergies so school declined that delivery
o Mandarins, apples, mini cukes, apples (again)
o Some changes since last year:
Used to be fully gov’t funded; this is the first year that it’s only 75%
PAC covers the 25% balance - Lost & Found (Sheeba on behalf of Alessandra/Naila):
o All items were cleaned out before winter break
o Reminder to label all kids items – helpful to get a way back to the student in their
classrooms
o Grade 5 stewardship (Casey):
Unfortunately no response/feedback from grade 5’s, but a few grade 4’s have
shown some interest
It’s a tough project to gain interest and purpose for the students
Work in progress
One thing Casey requested is to find out when the L&F comes to clear the items,
so she can coordinate with the students and their organizing etc
o Website (Ian):
Few small updates to the PAC website: calendar, meeting minutes, PAC
committee roles and contacts
CommunyHub – Ian touched up on it…see if it’s something the school can
perhaps leverage with it
Hot Lunch inquired about working to put up some things on the PAC website
also
Principal’s Report:
- Pancake Breakfast
o Shoutout on its amazing operations, was very positive in how things came together and
made it such a joyful experience
o Recognition on a very active and strong PAC; leadership of the PAC; very enriching to
see - School Goals:
o Taken school goals from before and investigated with staff
o Taking a different angle and shifting a bit
o Now have some very powerful working groups:
#1 – SEL social emotional learning (committee)
Using the Heart and Mind Project; CASEL; by taking care of our self we
can help others and work on self-regulation
o Ready, Do, Done
Executive Functioning – ability to move through projects or tasks and ascribe to
the goal of that task
o #2 Reading (committee)
Core foundational subject
- These 2 goals will:
o PAC opportunity – we will be a school that will be a ‘visit’ – around April - Clubs and Groups at Sperling:
o Set of rich opportunities to provide ‘extra’ at our school – organized and planned by
teachers
o (Andrew showed a list of clubs)
o Andrew will provide that list to PAC and will have it for distribution to
o Sports teams – usually grade 6/7 – depending on how conducive the sport it may be
that only one team and one grade can participate (ie. Basketball only for grade 7s) - Construction:
o Hycrest project is moving forward – sidewalks
o Challenging but it is looking good - FRIMM info session evening – Sperling is hosting this session at our school
o Late immersion coming up (Grade 5 and up) - Hip Hop (Casey):
o Will be 2 performance times – Friday the 19 th
o Basketball is under way
o School goals is under way - General comments:
o Nod to Neda about her book launch and proceeds going to PAC – approx. $120
o Nod to Guts & Seeds and some proceeds were given to PAC – approx. $51 - Reminder and general discussion about cutlery on hot lunch dates
o Had a huge amount of need for disposable as of recent
o Find ways to remind the kids and parents to bring cutlery
o Brought back suggestion to have it mentioned in the school’s announcements (ie during
the week of hot lunch)
o - (Cliff) Parent engagement and participation :
o (Andrew) tend to see a lot at the beginning and then it waivers
o Train up/partner up to keep them engaged and keep for succession
Meeting adjourned at 8:52 pm