September 11th School Council Meeting minutes.

RES School Council Meeting Minutes

September 11th, 2019

1. Welcome & Personal Introduction/Vision: Natalie Ball

• Vision:  is to help the administration know what the parents want and to help the parents understand communication with the administration

2. Greetings from The Board Mr Rod Wendoff 

3. Back to School BBQ -Natalie Ball

• There will be door prizes, gift cards, and free school fees draw incentives to bring as many into the school to meet the parents.
• All prizes donated by the school 
• School is giving $1000 towards the BBQ
• We will pull whatever is else we need from our funds
• Merc is donating the buns
• We will serve the staff early @ 4:45 in the staff room
• we need to get volunteers ASAP It will be posted online 
• Natalie will get lanyards for the volunteers and Jamie Jensen
• People will enter for the prizes when they pay at the door

4. Principals Report: Marlin Hogg

• Recess is now 1,3,5 and 2,4,6
• It happened because of supervision because 3 EA's have been lost from last year
• Grade 5 & 6 students will help and be on patrol 

5. Healthy Snack Fridge/Nutrition program: Tina Hall and Karen Salmon

• Waiting to hear about funding for the programs
• Tina will set up a booth at the BBQ
• She will work on getting parents to help prep when needed
• There is still a $1500 donation from Mike Smith in the account
• She will speak to snow's and the pharmasave about more donation this year

6. Allocation of Funds: Kira Earl and Natalie Ball

• There are people willing to fund the nutrition programs if we do lose funding
• we currently have $1700 in our account
• Next meeting we will discuss what we can do with the extra money
• Perhaps give money to the teachers to spend at the book fair for their classrooms
• or more vinyl for the staff room

7.Volunteers: Natalie Ball

• Volunteers are needed for picture day on Sept 24-25 and Oct 29 for retake day
• Jamie will let us know how many are needed for that
• Heidi will give the left over gum to the volunteers as an incentive

8. School Council Facebook Page: Natalie Ball

• What will be approved for the page?
• Anything that will benefit the students or the parents of the student
• The chair will be the only one that approves the posts
• Jamie suggested posting a picture of the lost and found every month before taking them to Lethbridge 
• Also put up a reminder about it the beginning of the last week of the month

9. FOIP & Communication:  Natalie Ball

• Connie spoke with Rebecca Bultsma from the school division in charge of communication about the is
• There was discussion on how to organize getting class lists and numbers and then how to distribute them 
• Mr. Salmon will ask some questions and get back to us next meeting.

10. Little Book Houses: Natalie Ball

• Two are ready and Elaine wants us to think about where we could put them
• A third one will be placed at the school and Jacquie is going to do that

* A motion was made to spend less than $200 on aprons for the BBQ for the council to wear. Everyone voted in favor of unanimously.

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