(Slightly belated) School Council Meeting Report

This meeting took place on Wednesday 28th of September and we had some returning faces as well as some new ones. Please, please feel very free to come along to the next meeting (27th of October - further meetings are in the calendar on this site) even if you couldn't make the first ones. People are always welcome whether they want to just listen or would like to get involved further.
Full draft minutes can be accessed from this page here and we should have the proposed agenda for the next meeting posted soon.

So,  back to the topic at hand - the meeting of the 28th of September. The main focus of the meeting was explaining the school council and the structure and roles. We are delighted to have some new parents involved in the council and there are still definitely opportunities for more people to get involved if they would like. Anybody who would like to be part of chairing the council (we have 2 co-chairs but further help is always welcome) or be a back-up secretary, for example, would be very welcome!

Asides from this, we also had a presentation from Mme. Hamilton (teacher rep at the meeting, Grade 1 teacher) who told us about the Se Brancher Coeur program. This is a program to encourage communication and conflict resolution with classroom and parent components which the council were considering funding as part of the Safe and Caring Schools initiative. The motion to fund this was unanimously approved and we look forward to letting you know about the parent events once the dates are decided and we hope to see lots of you there. The program sounds great and Mme Hamilton has already had one of the program team deliver an hour of work in her classroom which was very successful. It is also one of the few programs that can offer the program in French which was important to the teachers so it's a great find!

Mme. Mills, the principal, also had time to give a very quick principal's report. In brief - there have been major challenges with bussing but these are close to being fully resolved. EQAO results for grade 3 were boastworthy but, of course, only give a tiny insight into what is going on in the classroom, enrolment this year was consistent with what was expected so no classroom reorganisation was required in September, a major reorganisation of the International Language program has been implemented and seems to be suiting teachers and students well, the school facilities continue to be improved and a number of issues mentioned in Facilities Index report have already been addressed (as the inspection was in 2013)...and there was more but I would urge you to come along to our next council meeting to really get a flavour or all that is going on in Lord Lansdowne!