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Courtesy of the Glen Ames School Council Speaker Series   

 Invitation to Grade 6 Feeder School Parents/Guardians

Parenting the Social Media Generation

Monday, November 30^th at 7:30 p.m.

Glen Ames cafeteria (following the School Council meeting)

Do you sometimes feel like you don’t have the full picture on your kids’ social media activities? Steve Chapelle (www.stevechapelle.ca) has been providing internet safety education to Ontario parents and students since 2006. In this dynamic presentation, tailored to parents/guardians, Steve will talk about methods and features for improving privacy and minimizing risk to children and the family, including social media activities from an Android and iOS perspective.

We’d like to know how many parent/guardians will be coming to this Speaker Series Presentation. Please CLICK HERE to let us know if you’ll be joining us on November 30^th at 7:30 p.m. Your response is anonymous as we are only tracking numbers for attendance purposes.

Highlights from the morning announcements:

1. A reminder to all choir members singing the anthem at the Marlies game that your yellow media release form is due to Ms. Bailey no later than tomorrow.

Marlies Ticket orders are processed and tickets will be ready for pickup at the office starting Tuesday morning at 10am. Tickets MUST BE PICKED UP BY FRIDAY AT 3 30 PM. 
All tickets left over will be held with Melissa and brought to the game on Sunday November 29th. 

You can email Melissa at melissahillier@hotmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. 

For those skating after the game you can leave skates in your cars and go and get them after the game or if they are small kid size skates that are in a bag you can have them with you at your seats. Melissa will have her van for those who are not driving and need a place to store them.
Don’t forget all Choir members must be there for 11 am. Parents can wait inside the main area for children as they do their sound check. Inside there is an event room where everyone can play some games and make posters. 
Can’t wait to see Gledhill shine as we cheer on the Marlies.  Thank you to Melissa for arranging this once again!

The Gledhill School Council collected feedback from parents and guardians through an online survey and at the Council’s October meeting to inform the development of goals for the year.

Draft goals have been developed based on the feedback and can be found here.  This document also contains the detailed feedback that was collected.  These goals will be discussed with an aim to approve them (and discuss next steps) at the next Council meeting on Thursday, December 3rd from 6:00 – 7:30.

If you have any questions or comments about the proposed goals, please feel free to email gledhillschoolcouncil@gmail.com (all feedback is welcome!).

Also attached are the School Council meeting minutes from the October 27 council meeting.
Thank you!

3 days left until Family Fest and all of the delicious treats at the Bake Sale! Since we are open later this year we need all the baked goods we can get for the Bake Sale.

If you can donate something yummy (and nut free), we would be very grateful. No full cakes are needed this year but cupcakes are always welcome! Bring any donated baked goods to the table outside the school office on Friday morning.

Please contact Melissa with any questions, melissahillier@hotmail.com

Happy Baking!

Gledhill School Council’s next meeting is taking place this Thursday evening in the school library. All Gledhill parents are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please read the agenda here.

Contact thegledhillguardian@gmail.com if you would like to add an item to the agenda.

A reminder to all Gledhill parents of the information meeting regarding the change of school boundaries and starting grade for middle school for BOTH English and French Immersion stream students.

The Pupil Accommodation Review Committee (PARC) information meeting will be held on Monday, April 27th in the cafeteria at D.A. Morrison (271 Gledhill Ave.) at 6 pm.

Gledhill students are affected in a number of ways:

• change the grade range of Gledhill to a JK-5 school
• introduce French Immersion track at D.A. Morrison for grades 6-8 starting in September 2016
• all Gledhill students (English and French) would go to D.A. Morrison from grade 6-8

What do you think about this plan? Attend the meeting, get informed and share your questions/concerns/support/opposition with our school trustee, Sheila Cary-Meagher.

For more information about the meeting, and some background on the PARC process, read this PARC meeting letter – PARC information meeting DA Morrison