The Gledhill Guardian

Gledhill School Council Meeting

Thursday December 3, 2015

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Gledhill School Library / Staff Room, 2nd Floor

Agenda

Potluck gathering please bring an appetizer, main, or dessert (15 minutes)

Welcome and introductions (5 minutes)

Approval of October Meeting Minutes (5 minutes)

Principal’s update (10 minutes)

Confirmed Council Dates for Year (5 minutes)

* Upcoming Council meetings

* Events and Fundraising Initiatives

Chair Updates (Communications, Ward Rep, Fundraising, etc.) (10 minutes)

Syria Fundraising / Support Efforts (5 minutes)

Council goals for 2015/16 (30 minutes)

* Approval of proposed goals

* Discuss next steps – how to achieve goals

New Business (5 minutes)

Adjournment

Upcoming dates

* December 11 – Pizza lunch

* TBC – Coffee and Conversation

* TBC – next School Council meeting

* Jan 15 – Movie Night

* Feb 19 – Trivia Night (collecting donations for silent auction)

January Agenda Items (draft)

* Initiate bylaw review (TBC)

* Progress against Council goals (or review of next steps)

Highlights from the morning announcements:

1. Congratulations to all choir members who performed the National Anthem at the Toronto Marlies game. You performed wonderfully and represented Gledhill so well! Felicitations!
2. Strings is cancelled today.
3. Apples are being delivered today. Please send your apple bin down with the attendance.
4. Students who normally eat in the portable will eat in the small lunchroom in the basement starting today.
5. Students in Grades 2-6 who are interested in being in Chess Club are asked to pick up a registration form in the office.
6. Any FAN ZONE students are asked to come to the office at morning recess on their way out to recess.

Gledhill School Council’s 2015 QSP fall magazine fundraising drive is now underway. Catalogues will arrive home with your child(ren) within a day or two if they already haven’t. Extra copies are available in the office. Please, note that we discourage competitive subscription sales.

QSP (Quality Service Programs, Inc. (http://qsp.ca) is a fundraising company with 40+ years experience working with schools and youth organizations. Gledhill runs a magazine sales campaign annually where 30-50% of revenue from magazine sales is donated to School Council to support our initiatives. Each student receives a catalog with 500 magazines offered for subscription at a reduced price. There is something for everyone’s interest and can be sent directly to relatives as gifts. There is a good collection of children’s magazines and many titles are Canadian.

Orders may be placed online or with the enclosed order forms. Online orders will be processed faster.

Gledhill’s online order page is: http://www.qsp.ca/3721081

Please order online where possible. For paper orders, please have your child return to their teacher before the end of the campaign. The current QSP campaign will run until Friday Dec. 11th but orders may be placed online year round. Gledhill will still receive credit.

Please email mark@tsal.com with any questions.

Marlies tickets are ready for pick up in the office. They are there until Friday at 3:30 pm. After that they will be available through Melissa Hillier.

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.