Attending: CR, UD, LZ, ND, AP, EK, DH, BH, CC, AVR
Welcome
Agenda Additions & Approval
- Motion to approve agenda: EK; Second: LZ. Carrie
Approval of Minutes
- Motion to approve minutes of March 10, 2009 :UD; Second: LZ. Carried.
Treasurer’s Report
- Reviewed financial statement dated March 27, 2009. Discussion of a place at school to keep Society documents. CR will speak to teaching team and look into cost of filing cabinet.
Student Executive Report
- Nik reported on progress of donations for May Day. ND and AP will finalize a donations letter, have it approved by administration, and forward to Society to use. To date ND has approached Tim Horton’s, Wendy’s, Vancouver Aquarium, Strawberry Hill theatres, and has also had some art paperweights donated.
Teacher’s Report
- Raj Puri will be leaving the school in September; the new principal will be Rick Breen from Lord Tweedsmuir.
- April 14th and 23rd will be early dismissal at 1:26 pm.
- Europe trip for next year will hopefully be Italy and Greece. A mandatory meeting for those wishing to attend will be on May 5th and parents must attend.
- The Irish Dancers at the Celtic Festival were very good and the students say ‘thank you’. The mainstream theatre group were also able to attend.
- May Day April 30th: Students coming up with a booth or activity with an ‘under the sea’ theme. Tickets will be sold to participate in games and purchase food. Hours will be approximately 4-8 pm plus clean up. Could be up to 300 people attending. Will need to distribute food order forms by April 20th.
- Follow up on reporting procedures: At this time, teaching team is unable to add individual unit marks to report cards due to the way the spreadsheet system is set up – it would have to be done manually and would be too time consuming.
- Grad dinner at Morgan Creek June 5th: Will Society subsidize as in the past? Motion: Ute Doll – “to support Inter-A Grad Dinner by contributing $500.00 toward the attendance cost for eight (8) teachers and one (1) Society representative.” Second: Donna Hanson. Carried.
- District Advisory Committee meeting Thursday April 9th. Confirmed Inter-A attendance of 163 and possibly 167 for September. Will be trying to push for the 7 FTE’s and 7 classroom spaces and will remind about promise of laptops.
PAC
- District Volunteer Appreciation February 14th at the Bell Centre – we have been given 2 invitations. CR will send an email to see if anyone not present would like to attend.
- Tuesday May 19th from 7-9 pm – BCAA workshop for parents of new drivers.
Fundraising
- Big Brothers not as successful – 30 bags. Discussed possibility of sending garbage bags with notices next year.
- Decided to go with M&M’s for May Day BBQ. We will purchase pop, chips, and veggies and do both pre-sales and on-site dinner package sales.
- We will continue to solicit donations for a basket raffle.
- CR and UD will look after licensing for raffle and a 50/50.
Adjourned at 8:00 pm: Next meeting: Tuesday, May 12th at 7:00 pm