North Queens Community School Advisory Council

North Queens Community School Advisory Council MEETING AGENDA & MINUTES Wednesday April 1st

Present: Allison Rawding, Jennifer Spencer-Weare, Sarah Baker, Renate Bennett, Julie Ramey

Regrets: Ann Lambe, Lisa Heim, Gracie Labrador, Chris McCarthy

1. Call to order: 4:37pm 2. Approval of agenda: Approved by Renate; seconded by Allison 3. Approval of minutes: Approved by Renate; seconded by Allison

4. Old Business: a. Letter from Mya Uhlman regarding music allotment

 Discussion about how to respond, explanation of reasons why, options for next year, looking at scheduling for next year  Renate to create draft for next meeting

b. Report Cards

 Appreciated the cover letter on report cards about structure of comments  Do a self-reflection with students when they get their report cards back

5. New Business:

 No new business 6. Continuous School Improvement Plan update:

 Our CLT minutes are now in Google Docs.  It is much easier to use.  Board is asking teachers fill out another CLT survey by the end of April.

7. Principal’s Report:

 Board will have budget info April 9th, draft staffing April 16th to admin team, April 20th Jennifer will meet with Geoff, Jeff and Tina to discuss scenarios.  Ann: The trip went well. We travelled through Portugal where we had lots of sunshine and saw amazing buildings. Spring was evident with flowers and green grass! In Portugal we visited Estoril, Lisbon, Evora and Algarve. We then went on to Granada and Barcelona. One of our days was spent in Morocco. We had to go on a ferry to Morocco and EF tours provided a local guide. Two other small groups joined us; so we travelled as a group of 27. Our tour guide was excellent as were our daily guides, the places we visited were historically significant to the countries and the architecture was amazing. Everybody had a good time and the students were excellent.

8. Next meeting date: May 6th @ 4:30pm 9. Adjournment: 5:06pm