Category Archives: Meeting Minutes

Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019

Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm

ALL Parents and Guardians are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting and all are considered members of the Council!

Location: Gledhill School Library, 2nd Floor

Pizza will be served. Childcare will be provided. If your children are attending, please stay to help clean up the space that they are in when the meeting is over.

Note if the door is locked – please ring the bell and the caretaker will let you in.

Agenda Items

6:00pm to 6:15pm – Welcome and introductions

6:15pm to 7:30pm (main agenda items)

● Bike Rodeo (Grades 1-2)

● Letters to Government in Support of Teachers/Concern of Budget Cuts

● June Planning Meeting

● Principal’s Update

● Committee Updates

● Other Business – Open floor

Upcoming Dates

● Friday May 24 – Gledhill Spirit Day – wear your Gledhill spirit wear or Gledhill colours

● Wednesday May 29 – Character Ed Assembly

● Friday, May 31 – Deadline for ordering Argos tickets

● Wednesday June 5th – Spring Concert 6:30pm

● Friday, June 14th, 2019 – Family Fest

● Monday, June 24th – Grade 5 Graduation Ceremony – AM

Next Council Meeting is Tuesday, June 18th

Minutes from Past Meetings can be found HERE

The minutes from December’s  council meeting can be found HERE

Minutes for ALL past council meetings can always be found HERE

Agenda for January 2019’s School Council meeting

Date: Thursday, January 17, 2019

Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm

ALL Parents and Guardians are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting and all are considered members of the Council!

Location: Gledhill School Library, 2nd Floor

Pizza will be served.  Childcare will be provided.  If your children are attending, please stay to help clean up the space that they are in when the meeting is over.

Note if the door is locked – please ring the bell and the caretaker will let you in.

Agenda Items

6:00pm to 6:15pm – Welcome and introductions

6:15pm to 7:30pm (main agenda items)

• Principal’s Update
• Committee Updates
• Other Business – Open floor

Upcoming Dates

• Sunday, February 10, 2019 – Gledhill at the Marlies 4 p.m.
• Friday, February 22, 2019 – Movie Night
• Friday, June 14th, 2019 – Family Fest

Upcoming Council Meeting Dates

• Thursday, January 17
• Tuesday, February 19
• Thursday, March 21
• Tuesday, April 16
• Thursday, May 16
• Tuesday, June 18

Minutes from the last School Council Meeting on Nov 22 can be viewed HERE.

Items on the agenda included:

• Potential Hot Lunch Program at Gledhill
• Council alignment with TDSB foci

The next meeting is next week on Tuesday, December 11th at 6:00pm.

Items on that agenda will include:

• Presentations from 2 Hot Lunch providers (The Lunch Lady and Lunch Mom)
• Proposal by the PhysEd teacher, Mr Webb, for new equipment

Minutes from ALL past meeting can always be found HERE

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend last week’s council meeting. If you missed it, you can check out the Meeting Minutes

Documents provided at the meeting included:

Gledhill School Council Financial Summary for 2017/2018

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Summary of School Hot Lunch Options

Meeting minutes for all past meetings can always be found HERE

If you have questions about the meeting minutes, please email thegledhillguardian@gmail.com.

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend last week’s first council meeting of the year. We had a great turnout and appreciate all those who put their name forward to help with a committee or elected position. We are lucky to have such an engaged parent community.

The minutes for Thursday, Sept 20th’s meeting can be found HERE.

Meeting minutes for all past meetings can always be found HERE

If you missed the meeting and are still interested in joining a committee, it’s not too late – please email thegledhillguardian@gmail.com.

A full list of committees can be found HERE

Not interested in a committee role at the moment and just want to help out once or twice a year? Check out a full range of volunteer opportunities HERE

ALL Parents and Guardians are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting and all are considered members of the Council!

Date: Tuesday, May 15th

Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: Gledhill School Library, 2nd Floor

Pizza will be provided! NOTE: There is no babysitting but kids are welcome to come and play quietly in the library or sit with their parents.

Note if the door is locked – please ring the bell and the caretaker will let you in.

Agenda Items

6:00pm to 6:15pm (housekeeping items) Approval of April meeting minutes – Found here

6:15pm to 7:30pm (main agenda items)

• Round table introductions & overview for new comers
• Marisa and Lindsay will present the findings from the winter parent engagement survey
• Gledhill School Council Bylaws – vote to clarify that teachers are not voting members. Any other items parents wish to bring forward for changes may also be voted on (Committee would only like to change these once per year but all suggestions are welcome). Bylaws are located on the blog: https://gledhillguardian.com/council/regulations
• Call out for volunteers: Breakfast Club, individual council events i.e. Skate Day and Family Fest
• Chair Updates – Fundraising, Movie Night, Parent Engagement, Communications, Grants, Treasurer, Healthy Kids, Volunteer Coordinator, Ward and School Advocacy, and Eco

Principal’s update

Other Business – Open floor

Upcoming dates:

• Spring Concert – May 23rd – Pizza and snacks will be sold
• Pizza Lunch – June 1st
• Bike Rally – June 5th
• Next Council meeting – June 14
• Family Fest – June 22nd

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend last night’s council meeting.

For full meeting minutes from last night click HERE

Some highlights and time sensitive discussions included:

1. Michelle Aarts from PIAC (Parent Involvement Advisory Committee) discussed all the resources they have to offer parents and school councils. Their website is www.torontopiac.com. She discussed important opportunities coming up within the TDSB for parents to learn and provide input:

• TDSB Parents As Partners Conference Next Weekend (April 28): Community Advisory groups (French, Mental Health and Well being), registration for daycare is closed but you can still go. It’s a free conference for parents, has great resources, navigating special education, what to expect in high school, cultural differences – Location: Beanfield Center in Exhibition Place
• French programs are being reviewed board wide – Throughout May, there are public forums being held at local schools for parent and teacher input. For dates and locations check out the TDSB site HERE

2. Breakfast Club: Several  volunteers have left and we are losing more people come fall. Some days may have to be cancelled because there is not enough adult supervision – team of current volunteers are meeting to determine the go forward plan. If the program needs to reduce to 4 or less days, parents will be advised in advance.

Reminder, Police checks are required to participate and this takes 3 months, if you have time to help even for an hour – please drop by and coordinate with the team or email jenniferscaife@royallepage.ca

3.  The school will be shut for the summer for construction. This will impact Terry Fox CC & Daycare.

4.  Phil Pothen – a parent from Secord PS came to seek Gledhill parent support on a couple of concerning issues:

• May 15 – Barbara Gray head of Transportation is meeting with parents to think about Safe walking to school – pedestrian access – should there be additional crosswalks, parking signs etc.
  • Gledhill parents are encouraged to think about if your children’s walk to school could use improvements i.e. crossing Danforth, car dealership, buses not being able to park in front of school because of cars parked/congestion
• Secord is over capacity (has 14 portables) and is concerned with new condos being constructed on the Danforth – there has not been funds directed to expand schools to accommodate
  • Secord is looking for parent engagement and there is a petition to call for community investment and collection of education enhancement charges – oriented towards Secord but Gledhill will be impacted downstream
  • More information will be posted about this on the blog when it becomes available

5. The council is doing a review of the Gledhill School Council Bi-Laws (see Blog https://gledhillguardian.com/council/regulations for details)

• There will be a minor change for clarification that teachers are not voting members
• Next meeting we will vote on this change (requirement) so if anyone else has changes they’d like to recommend, please bring them forward at the next meeting or email us at thegledhillguardian@gmail.com

Upcoming dates

• Track and Field Day, April 26th
• EQAO Info Night at Earl Beatty – 6-7pm April 26th
• Pizza Day (Grades 1-6) – April 27th
• Dance-A-Thon (Grades K-6) – May 11^th (During school hours)
• Movie Night – May 11th
• Next Council meeting – May 15th
• Special Folkfest at Ted Reeve Arena – Tuesday, May 22nd
• Spring Concert – Wed, May 23rd
• Family Fest – EVERYONE – June 22nd

And all past minutes from other meetings can be found HERE

Our Trustee, Sheila Cary-Meagher, will be our guest speaker for the last School Council meeting of 2017. 

ALL Parents and Guardians are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting and all are considered members of the Council!

Date: Tuesday, December 12th

Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: Gledhill School Library, 2nd Floor

Pizza and babysitting services will be provided!

Note if the door is locked – please ring the bell and the caretaker will let you in.

Agenda Items

6:00pm to 6:30pm (housekeeping items) Approval of November meeting minutes – Found here

6:30pm to 7:30pm (main agenda items)

1. Discussion with Sheila Cary-Meagher, Trustee on role of the principal and trustee.
2. Movement presentation (pitch for school event using council funds)
3. Chair Updates – Fundraising, Movie Night, Parent Engagement, Communications, Grants, Healthy Kids, Volunteer Coordinator, Ward and School Advocacy, and Eco
4. Principal’s update
5. Update on workshops offered by Public Health Nurse

Other Business – Open floor

Upcoming dates

• Pizza Day – December 15th
• Potluck and Family Dance – January 18th
• Next Council meeting – January 23rd, 2018

January Council Agenda Highlights:

• Kindie Engagement – discuss opportunity for a special kindie movie night or snack event on pizza day

DA Morrison Middle School hosted a meeting this evening to discuss the Gledhill  Jr. PS to DA Morrison Middle School to East York Collegiate Institute pathway for French Immersion students.

Two members of the TDSB were present and shared the following information:

• In September 2018, Grade 8 French Immersion graduates from DA Morrison will join a group of Grade 8 French Immersion graduates from Clairlea PS to form the first class of French Immersion at East York CI.
• It is the TDSB’s intention that staff will be hired accordingly to provide a viable program at East York CI.
• Other schools will eventually join Gledhill in feeding DA Morrison’s FI program and then subsequently East York CI’s, beginning with Earl Beatty joining our Grade 6’s next year at DA Morrison and several others to follow in 3-4 years. This will result in a gradually increased FI cohort size.

Parents had many questions involving timing of new staff hiring, course selection and cohort size at East York CI. There was discussion of a follow up meeting involving the Principal of East York CI and different TDSB members who would be equipped to answer some of the questions posed.

We will post any future meeting dates as they arise.

For information on what French Immersion in Secondary School entails you can visit

http://www.tdsb.on.ca/Elementary-School/School-Choices/French-Programs/Secondary-Programs