Eagleville Elementary Home & School Meeting

Minutes for February 4, 2015

Attendance: Vance Diezel, Kelly Alexander, Tracy Courtney, Alison Navarrete, Julia Nakhleh, Nikki Krelovich, Jenifer Brucker, & Amanda Ferrara

I. Call to order: The meeting was called to order at 7:05 P.M.

II. Introductions: Boards Members introduced

III. Approval of January Minutes: There was a motion by Vance Diezel and a second by Tracy Courtney to approve the January minutes.

IV. Principal’s Report – Jenifer Brucker

A. Thank you for the successful movie night. B. Valentine exchanges – no parents, healthy foods only. Homeroom Parents will coordinate snacks with teacher. C. Reminder for birthday treats. Please only send in pre-cut brownies, cookies, or cupcakes. D. Aramark treated all our students to a free breakfast – Jan 29th & Feb 3rd. Please encourage students to eat at school if you are able to ensure brain food is being eaten – Breakfast is available every day for $1.05. Special thanks to Leslie and Anna!!! E. PSSAs are coming. Letter sent to all 3rd and 4th grade students and their families. ELA Grades 3&4 4/13-4/16. Math Grades 3&4 4/21-4/23. Science Grade 4 4/27-2/28. Help students prepare with plenty of rest and a healthy breakfast F. Report cards on Friday. Conferences are optional. Babysitting provided in the library with staff volunteers. G. No school on Friday, 2/13; Monday, 2/16; and Tuesday, 2/17. H. Please pay attention to our School Board Meetings. There is much happening in our district that affects all of us. I. We are packing 28 backpacks each week. An anonymous student donated $110.00 to the backpack program. J. First Friday Family Meeting is Friday. Wear superhero shirts, capes, school spirit wear, or Philadelphia Eagles gear. K. Science Fair is Tuesday, March 31st. Flyers will be sent out this week. Contact Mrs. Pashley if you are interested in volunteering. L. Current Student enrollment 356. M. Kindergarten Registration will be centralized this year – taking place at Eagleville Elementary the week on March 16-20th. Sign-up on Methacton Website. Kindergarten assessments are scheduled for the first week of June. N. Reading Achievement Grant for up to $50,000 – Homework Clubs, Activities, Parent Programs – more info to come. V. President’s Report – Kelly Alexander A. Eagleville Mascot made its first debut on January 29th at the Aramark free breakfast. Problems however with the size of the costume and the inability to see well while wearing the head piece. Will follow-up.

B. Movie Night was a success! Special thanks to all our volunteers!

C. The school board commissioned a study of facilities and enrollment (current & predictions) this past fall. There have been rumors of school closings and/or re-districting in the past several years. Yesterday, there was a special meeting to present the results of a capacity study conducted over past months. This study goes hand-in-hand with the enrollment projections for the district as presented at the January School Board meeting. Together, these results could have long-term effects for district schools and students. Public Hearing – On the question of the possible closing of Audubon and/or Arrowhead Elementary School – scheduled for February 23rd at 6:30 PM at Arcola School Auditorium. The decisions will affect all schools, not just those closing. We need to be informing, educating and supporting.

D. Box Top Contest – The numbers are in – 5, 173 box tops have been collected. The class with the most collected box tops is Mrs. Navarrete’s class with 662, followed by Mrs. Cornish’s class with 659 and in third place, Mrs. Baker’s class with 515. Moving forward Student Council headed by Mrs. Beam and Mrs. Baker has offered to collect and count the box tops. We still need to discuss how often the counting will be done. The next contest begins now and the next class winner will be announced in June. Our goal is to routinely announce or post each class’s number of box tops.

E. Coordinating Council Report - Meeting was cancelled 1/26 due to the weather. Lisa Coupe forwarded an update. One of the council reps met with Dr. Zerbe, prior to the scheduled meeting. The school district has officially added a rider to its insurance policy to cover MCC and the H&S organizations for the remainder of the school year. As of last week, MCC and H&S have been covered under the district’s policy of insurance. Mr. Whiteleather will provide us with the Certificate of Insurance so we have proof of insurance for all H&S events. This is a huge relief for all of us and solves the immediate insurance problem we were facing as an organization. Dr. Zerbe agreed that MCC/H&S may need to continue on the district’s policy for next year as well to allow our organization to complete its formation and financial planning for future expenses, like insurance coverage. We will need to consider insuring ourselves at some point. The Coordinating Council needs to get the Quickbooks up and running with all the schools. Dr. Zerbe/Whiteleather are willing to organize and provide training for those involved so that we can get everyone on the same page. Getting our financial structure and finances in order needs to be our top priority. We also need to finalize our by-laws, vote on any changes, get them published on the website and deal with potential officer changes (if any) that will occur by the end of the school year. Once the by-laws are completed, each school will need to create new by-laws under our guidance. After the finances and governing structures are in place, we need to make headway on the conflict resolution policy. The next Coordinating Council meeting is scheduled for February 9, at 7:00 p.m. at MHS. F. H&S is proud to announce that two assemblies have been coordinated by Eagleville staff and funded by our H&S. Sadecky’s Puppets will be preforming, “A New Kind of Hero” on March 5th and The Magic of Nutrition Program will take place on March 26th. G. Mini Grants – H&S received a thank you card from Mrs. Cramer for grant monies that supported the purchase of toys for the holidays for our Eagleville families in need. VI. Treasurer’s Report – Tracy Courtney A. Fourth Grade T-Shirts – Cost $635.00 B. Movie Night – Brought in $646.00 VII. Teacher’s Report – Alison Navarrete

A. Mrs. Kraus – The Sock Fundraiser for the mosaic mural was cancelled. Not enough orders were placed. $3,200.00 needs to be raised to cover the cost of the outdoor mosaic mural. The artist is Jessica Liddell – website bellamosiac.com. She has work on display at Elmwood Park Zoo. Each class will have the opportunity to work with Ms. Liddell on the mosaic as part of the artist in residence program. March 25, 2015 - Art Goes to School – Students will see presentations during their scheduled art classes. Question was raised – if parents will be invited to view the art work.

VIII. Committee Coordinator’s Report – Vance Diezel

A. Movie Night

B. Valentine’s Day Spirit Brunch

C. Tosco Spirit Night 3/10

D. Chic Fil A – Spirit Week Cancelled for the week of March 2nd.

E. Looking ahead – April 10th – Family Game Night - We need lots of volunteers!!! - President to rally for Chairs and Co-Chairs for 2015-2016 school year.

F. Yearsbooks – We will have the opportunity to pre-order yearbooks. We have to discuss the cover contest. We need to reserve two yearbooks – 1 for the district office and 1 for Eagleville.

IX. Old/New Business -

A. Discussed the possibility of Spring Concert and Talent Show (for talent show we will wait on raffle until May) – Reserved Seating Raffle. For Talent show raffling price of admission and front row seating. (Raffle for Winter Concert – four front row seats, price $5.00 per raffle ticket.)

B. Indoor Recess – initiatives – Game Cart – working on wish list of games

C. Nominations/Ballots/Elections (May) – Review officers and their election in the bylaws

D. Begin working on event dates for next year

E. Random Acts of Kindness - cancelled X. Questions/Concerns -

a) Need for hall monitors during evening H&S events. There was a suggestion raised to have “security” t –shirts for volunteers to wear during events.

XI. Adjournment - The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 p.m.

Our Next Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 4th at 9:30AM. Mrs. William’s music classes will be performing for those attending as a very special treat!

Respectfully submitted by Kelly Alexander