Stittsville Public School

STITTSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL SCHOOL COUNCIL October 18, 2016

PRESENT CO-CHAIRS Sabrina Kemp Shannon Helleman Secretary George Ingraham Fundraising Donna Edwards Kristin Harcoff Food Coord Laurie Hayes Volunteer Cathy Cooer OCASC Stephanie Pullyblank COMM & Webb Admin SCSC Rep

Principal: Catherine Donnelly Faculty Reps: Virginia O'Halloran

INTRODUCTION

Co Chair Sabrina Kemp opened the council at 7:01 and introduced City Councillor.

1. Councillor Shad Qadri a. Hydro construction on Granite Ridge Dr., 2-3 weeks. Weather dependent. b. City of Ottawa program - sheet handed out c. Councillor Newsletter - priorities in our community, sent weekly on Friday afternoon. d. Bike Safety program, Capital Grant, school tree planting, PD Day GRC day program. e. Ottawa Public Health f. Public High School in Stittsville - priority #1 - Lisa Macleod MPP and Ottawa Centre MPP ?. Location to be near the Walmart on Fernbank Rd. g. 1993 - pop 9,700. 2015, 31K by 2022 47K h. New artery - from fernbank to palladium by new high school, traffic circle i. Canada150 - 150 maple trees - 2017 grants j. Accommodations camping; GRC shower facility

Questions: 1. Crazy Clowns - Sabrina Kemp - chased two 14 year olds who were dressed in costume on Saturday afternoon through the park. 2. |Laurie Hayes - large trucks on street blocking pedestrians. Parents dropping and picking up children in a rush.

7:28 - Shannon discussed agenda a. Council will be circulating minutes for sept and oct at the same time. Motion to accept agenda by Jacqui, seconded by Laurie

Sabrina - Happy Birthday to Shannon. Singing but no table dances !!!

NEW BUSINESS

Deanne Evans - nut free class room. No school can claim to be nut free but can make efforts to advertise requirement. Teaching Self advocacy skills & awareness & independence Grade 4 - 6 - is there a way to permit nutrious snacks - peanut butter. Lysol wipes / Bake sale table - allergy free Principal - there is a board policy. a. Was not aware peanut butter was coming into the school. b. No spare rooms. c. Cleaning staff cannot wipe down ever desk. Lysol wipes not allowed?

Cathy Coote - understands concern. Has son who has significant peanut allergy

Risk vs benefits - is allowing some to bring it in worth the risk to those at risk

Educate the kids to the risk and process. Sabrina - class by class - list provided to parents by teachers in Sept. Give Admin opp to review this situation faculty.

Jacqui made presentation - in sons class 7 out of 30 have attention / learning issues.

Learning tools - a need to support learning challenges in the classroom.

Most kids can befit from:  Quiet learning  Sensory engagement  Motor engagement

Very common for teachers to have to deal with this issue.  Survey teacher requirements  identify tools that would be supported by the board and school to enhance learning and development  provide tool - for classroom  grip product  writing skills

Budget to support 30 classrooms $3,950.00  headsets - 25 each, 3 per classroom $2,250.00  desk bands - 18 each / 10 part of the loaner inventory 180.00  stools - 130 ea 10 part of loaner program / $1,300.00  hand weights - 22 ea 10 part of loaner program - $220.00

Catherine Donnelly - faculty discussed this - asked to provide needs and top 4-5 priorities established by faculty - technology, presentations scientist, arts, outdoor play equipment. In addition the question raised was do teachers have skill set to deal with these students.

Schools have resources to identify which students have needs and some equipment to help.

Sabrina - council needs to identify needs of faculty and parents and compare and council make some decisions on funding.

PREVIOUS BUSINESS Sabrina - out door classroom -  10k already allocated - phase one  $2,800.00 from city grant  9k awarded from TD friends of the environment

Challenges  rules for grants is the project must be completed within 1 year period or funds must be returned.  splitting project increases cost  splitting means the time line stretches

EXECUTIVE REPORTS

CHAIR REPORT - Shannon parents conference with nov 19...... registration 8:30 - 1:30 Stephanie Pulleyblank

PRINCIPAL REPORT

School Learning Plan/Student Wellbeing Plan & the OCDSB Exit Outcomes Our School Learning Plan, as well as the Student Wellbeing plan, supports the OCDSB Exit.

Outcome which include 5 Characteristics and 5 Skills that we want all of our graduates toachieve by the end of grade 12. We want all graduates to be resilient, globally aware collaborative, innovative/creative and goal oriented (characteristics). We also want them to be critical thinkers, effective communicators, academically diverse, digitally fluent and ethical decision-makers (skills). For a full description of the Exit Outcomes you can visit the OCDSB website (link below). http://www.ocdsb.ca/med/pub/Publications%20%20Updated/OCDSB%20Exit%20Outcomes.pdf Our focus for the school learning plan this year will be supporting numeracy across all subject areas. In particular we are looking at improving student achievement in the area of number sense

(at the primary level the focus is on “composing and decomposing” numbers and at the junior level the focus is on “place value”). In the area of student well-being we are looking at the importance of having a “growth mindset”, especially in math. A growth mindset contributes to student resiliency, perseverance and many other learning skills and knowledge. Below is a link to a short video created by Jo Boaler of Stanford University for explaining to students the benefits of a growth mindset. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4sQyT7j0H4GcUVHajFWa0U1ck0/view

The Safe and Caring committee will be providing input for the student well-being plan and bullying prevention and intervention plan next week and the plans will be posted to the school website once complete.

School Budget - Our school budget is allocated based on the number of students we have. It includes an operating budget for educational items, funding for school supplies and an allocation for replacing absent employees.

Resource Priorities - As a staff we gathered ideas, suggestions, and requests for items that would enhance the student experience, school wide, at SPS. Staff then collaboratively prioritized items to present to school council for consideration. The top priorities put forward this year for council consideration include, technology (chrome books/IPads), Scientist in Schools presentations, cultural presentations or performances, and outdoor play equipment, in addition to previously identified priorities which included student agendas and the outdoor classroom. The $200 staff discretionary fund (pro-rated for part-time staff) can be used for items that individual staff members were requesting for their specific classrooms.

Bus Evacuation Drills: On October 21 st all students will be participating in a bus evacuation drill to learn how to safely exit a bus in case of an emergency. Students will be practicing a front

TEACHER REPORT The ECO/Green Club will be having its first meeting this week. It is a group that is offered for students in grades 1-6. Mr Currah and Mrs Doherty will be coaching the bordenball teams which will start in November. It will be for grades 4, 5 and 6 boys and girls. Mme Nadanyi’s class (and several other classes) participated in the outdoor education day last week. The students walked the grounds and picked leaves of all different varieties and colours. We then returned to the class and looked at them, then pressed them into books to make them flat. During the last block they each made personal autumn wreaths to take home. A great experience! Student Council elections are currently taking place in grades 5 and 6 classes. The group will meet next Tuesday to discuss their plans for the year. Their first initiative will be to be involved with the SPS Remembrance Day Ceremony. Our Grade 5s and 4/5s (4 classes in total) went on a field trip downtown last week to Rideau Hall and the Supreme Court of Canada, for their Social Studies unit on Government. Students, Teachers and Parent Volunteers were in awe of the history and beauty of Rideau Hall. At the Supreme Court, 10 lucky students got a chance to participate in a mock trial (including wearing a judge's black gown) while the rest of the students were the "jury". Not only was it a great day, but we received many compliments from the bus drivers, the tour guides and the tour organizers about how well behaved SPS students were! Girl’s Soccer Tournament: The girls had an amazing day. They played four games in round robin and were undefeated with no goals against. The teams were then split into pools and we played two other games, getting a win and a tie. We advanced to semi-finals and lost a tough one to Westwind. The girls showed wonderful sportsmanship all day to each other and other teams. Thank you to all the parent volunteers who drove the girls and supported the team. We could not do it without them. Boy’s Soccer Tournament: Please share with the parents that the Boy's Soccer team had but 1 loss at the tournament and it was in the semi-final. The Free the Children group will be hosting their first fundraiser in the first week of November. They will be doing a food drive for the local Stittsville Food Bank. In the month of November they are also planning on selling rafikis again this year. The rafikis are the beaded necklakces/bracelets that women in Kenya and other places in the world hand-make. SPS Library is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair during the Parent/Teacher interview week. The schedule for the Book Fair is as follows: Tuesday, October 15th - 8.00 am to 4.30 pm Wednesday, October 16th - 8.00 am to 4.40 pm Thursday, October 17th - 8.00 am to 7.30 pm Friday, October 18th - 8.00 am to 12.30 pm Our SPS Library also has variety of Reference Books for Parents. Following are some of the titles. Parents are welcome to stop by the library and borrow them: - Bringing out the winner in your child by John Croyle - Coaching your kids to be leaders by Pat Williams - How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk by Adele Faber - How your child learns best: brain-friendly strategies you can use to ignite your child's learning - Reading Magic: Why reading aloud to our children will change their lives forever - The worried child: recognizing anxiety in children and helping - The child with special needs by Greenspan Wieder

TREASURERS REPORT

NOTES Allocations: 2016 - 2017 2 1 , 8 0 Already approved 1 Outdoor Classroom - - 0 1 2 , 5 0 2 Projector Mounting - - 0 8 1,10 9 3 Kindergarten Yard - 5 5 Not needed this year 4 Tent & softballs - 462 - 1,19 5 Yard Painting - 2 - 9 , 0 7,69 0 Already decided 6 Teacher 2,801 5 0 3 , 0 2,26 0 but need to 7 Mathletics - 0 0 5 0 finalize vote 8 Food Subsidies - 777 0 1 , 0 0 Usual annual 9 Grade 6 Graduation 993 968 0 5 0 allocations 10 Year end parties for volunteers - - 0 2 5 11 Track chalk 475 249 0 1 0 12 Gardening supplies - - 0 1 2 , 0 0 Recommended 13 Outdoor Classroom 0 new allocations 14 Student Agendas - - 3 , 0 0 0 2 , 0 4,07 0 for this year 15 Scientists in School OR Field Trip Support 0 0 2 0 16 Education Foundation Challenge 0 2 0 17 Environment Club Equipment 0 1,15 Req allocations 18 Technology 20,615 2 -

FOOD PROGRAM - laurie hayes

SPS Council Food Program Financial Results (2016- 2017) Estimates as of October 11, 2016

Revenues / Supplier Costs / Supplier Number of Orders Profits / Year Year Year

Booster Juice & Wraps 186 $ 11,645 $ 9,365 $ 2,280

Kungfu Bistro 58 $ 4,350 $ 3,362 $ 988 Hot Dogs 181 $ 8,089 $ 6,827 $ 1,262 Subway 117 $ 6,552 $ 5,040 $ 1,512

JoJos 383 $ 18,959 $ 11,706 $ 7,252 Kernels Popcorn 162 $ 3,281 $ 1,658 $ 1,623 GRAND TOTALS $ 52,875 $ 37,958 $ 14,917 GRAND TOTAL LESS PAYPAL costs $ 14,168 $ 4,518 HST PAID Paypal $ 817 costs * Note this does not factor in costs like the hot lunches access, extras that are ordered, Subsidy and other miscellaneous small costs $ 227 costs

VOLUNTEER REPORT - Cathy Coote made a few comments about recruiting volunteers for the dance, clean up, concession stand

SAFE AND CARING SCHOOLS Kristin -

FUNDRAISING – Krsitin Harcoff stated that the movie night was the most successful yet, raising a little over $900. We also just have the numbers in for our spirit wear, and have raised about $500. There is a dance coming up on the 28th, and a few new fundraisers in November, with a McDonald's night and a new poinsettia and wreath campaign to try out. As well as the Samko and Miko toy sale is back.

OCASC REPORT Presnted by Stephanie Pullyblank.  very intereesting to see what other schools are doing  parent council trg day on 19 Nov,.  education foundation to distribute funds to deserving individuals - stephanie - out reach - to other schools - donate 1% to the education foundation - for schools ?   math is a priority for the board.

CLOSING With no further business appearing the council closed at 9:27 pm. Motion by Jacqui