Below is a message from Irit Hartman, chair of the Clairlea School Council. Most of you will have received this by email - if you didn't, and would like to be on the email list, please write to clairleacouncil@gmail.com.
DEAR CLAIRLEA FAMILIES….
We are half way through the school year
and we have some exciting things coming up to tell you about. Please have
a look through the information below and feel free to contact us with any
questions or suggestions. Happy New Year!
COOKIE DOUGH…
Check the backpacks for our spring
catalogue featuring a variety of frozen cookie dough flavours. Complete
and submit your order form no later than February 25th. All
cheques should be made payable to “Clairlea School Council”. Orders will
arrive on Wednesday March 20th and must be picked up at the
school from 7:00pm – 9:00pm only - during the School Council Meeting. Due
to the fact that the cookie dough is frozen it must be picked up and will not
be sent home in backpacks. Please ensure that you specify the name and
phone number of the parent that will be picking up your order on the order
form. Orders cannot be stored at the school due to space issues.
SPIRIT WEAR…
Keep an eye out for our new spirit wear
order forms coming home in backpacks in the next couple of weeks. A hint
of what you will see:
T-shirt, hoodies (zipped and pullover),
baseball caps and metal water bottles (to support the ECO School initiative)
all at reasonable prices. To ensure you get the right fit sample sizes
will be made available and fitting days will be arranged. (Stay tuned!)
FUNDSCRIP (Fundscrip.com):
We are excited to start a new campaign
called Fundscrip. This campaign entails a wide variety of gift cards from
over a hundred retailers that you can purchase from. Each retailer has a
predetermined percentage that Fundscrip will send to Clairlea School based
on the amount of your gift card at no cost to you.
For example: If you shop at No Frills you
can purchase a gift card for $50.00 (or select a different amount) via
fundscrip.com and Fundscrip will send Clairlea School a predetermined
percentage of your total gift card amount, which for No Frills is 3% at no cost
to you and you will receive a $50 gift card to use when you shop. Each
retailer has a different percentage and there are featured monthly specials
whereby each month a few selected retailers will have a higher percentage for
the month.
The idea is to just buy gift cards for retailers where
you would normally shop anyway and instead of paying via credit card or cash
just use the gift cards and benefit the school with the predetermined
percentage. If you are looking for gift cards for presents this is the
place to be.
Please see attached for a full list of over 100 retailers, such as;
Build a Bear, Canadian Tire, Chapters, Cineplex, Giant Tiger, Gap, No Frills,
Esso, Harvey's, Home Depot, Homesense, Jack Astor's, The keg, Loblaws, Metro,
Old Navy, Petsmart, Pizza Pizza, Rona, Rogers, Roots, Sears, Shoppers Drug
Mart, Starbucks, Subway, Swiss Chalet, The Bay, The Childrens Place, Blue Jays,
Toys R Us, Wendy's, Zellers and Winners just to list a few.
How to Sign up (It’s free):
Step 2: Select “Sign Up Here”
Step 3: Complete the “Sign up
Form” by entering your name, email address, postal code, and password (make one
up), our Clairlea school “invitation code” is MGBJSW (not case
sensitive)
Step 4: Select “Sign Up”
Step 5: Check your email and click on
the link in the email from fundscrip to activate the account
Step 6: Click on “Buy Cards” to go
shopping
Once you have selected your cards you
have two different shipping options to choose from:
1.
Ship Home – this means that the cards that you ordered will ship to
the address you specify whether it is your home address or the address of the
recipient you choose. When using this option the gift cards will ship
approximately 3 days after your order is placed. You will also be charged
a shipping cost up to approximately $7.00.
2.
Ship to School (Fundraising Chair – Karen Shah) – this means that the
cards that you ordered will ship to Clairlea and will be available on the
designated pick up dates listed below. Each month we will have a deadline
for all orders coming to the school and on the order deadline all existing orders
in the system will be processed and shipped to the school. We will then
have a pick up date which will be at the monthly School Council Meeting at the
school. All orders that are not picked up on the pickup date will be sent
home with your child on the following day. You will not incur a shipping
charge using this option although you will have to adhere to the schedule
below:
FUNDSCRIP SCHEDULE IF CHOOSING SHIP TO
SCHOOL OPTION:
Order Deadline
Pick Up
Date
Send Home Date
February 14th
2013
February 20th 2013 - 7:00pm at
Clairlea February 21st
2013
March 14th 2013
March 20th 2013 - 7:00pm at
Clairlea
March 21st 2013
April 11th
2013
April 17th 2013 - 7:00pm at Clairlea
April 18th 2013
May 9th
2013
May 15th 2013 - 7:00pm at Clairlea
May 16th 2013
June 13th
2013
June 19th 2013 - 7:00pm at Clairlea
June 20th 2013
QSP MAGAZINE:
Don’t forget! This fundraising
campaign is still going on and will be open for the remainder of the school
year! You may simply place your order anytime online at www.qsp.ca using our school
code which is 9581. The margin return for this campaign varies on the
type of magazine that is ordered but can be up to 37% of the order amount.
PIZZA LUNCH:
We will be adding a new “Gluten Free”
option to the pizza lunch order forms. This addition will be available
for the next pizza lunch on Wednesday February 27th.
SOME CHANGES COMING UP!!!
We know that pizza lunch is a big hit
with the kids and the parents. Personally I look forward to the one day a
month that I don’t have to decide what to make the kids for lunch. We
were thinking of expanding the pizza lunch for the next school year to once a
week, starting in the fall of 2013. That would mean that each month you
would get an envelope sent home and you would select which weeks for that month
your child will be having pizza lunch (All, none or somewhere in between) and
you would put in the payment for the month in the envelope. Also we would
eliminate the snack and drink and just provide the pizza. The rationale
behind this would be to make it easier logistically to distribute the pizza
lunch and also to support our ECO School by encouraging children to utilize
reusable water bottles for their lunch and encourage healthy snacks to be
supplied from home. Let us know what you think about this and send us
your feedback.
MOVIE NIGHT:
Our next movie night will be on Friday
March 8th featuring “Wreck-It Ralph”.
NEXT CLAIRLEA COUNCIL MEETING: Our next meeting will
take place on Wednesday February 20th @ 7pm until
8:30pm. Free child minding is available and all are welcome!
FEBRUARY 2013 AGENDA:
6:45 – 7:00pm - Selling 50/50 tickets
to be drawn at the end of the meeting (optional)
7:00 – 7:10pm - Introduction and voting
in the past minutes (Irit)
7:10 – 7:35pm - Administration Report
(Mr. Mcgilvray and Ms. Harroun)
7:35 – 7:45pm - Treasurer’s Report
(Tina)
7:45 – 7:55pm - Fundraising Report
(Karen)
7:55 – 8:25pm - Open Discussion (All)
8:25 – 8:30pm - 50/50 draw and wrap up
(Irit)
HOW TO REACH US…
If you would like to unsubscribe to
this email (we hope you don’t) or know someone that would like to be added to
the distribution list please send a request to clairleacouncil@gmail.com.
We would like to hear your feedback and suggestions. If you are not able
to come to the next meeting and want to contribute ideas please email them to
us or drop a note in the council box in the office and we can bring them
forward to the meeting. You can contact us via email at clairleacouncil@gmail.com, on
the blog at http://clairleacouncil.blogspot.com, or have a look at
our bulletin board outside the office for the latest news.
Best Regards,
Irit
Clairlea School Council
It works like this: you buy gift certificates for the stores that you already shop in - for example Metro, No Frills, Loblaws, Canadian Tire, Indigo, The Bay, Bath and Body Works, Home Depot, Starbucks, Swiss Chalet, Shoppers Drug Mart, Roots, Winners... the list is long! Clairlea receives between 3% and 7% back, depending on the retailer (sometimes it's as high as 12%), and you shop just as you normally would - except using your gift cards to pay for your purchases. 
Due to the snowstorm, school buses are cancelled today, Friday February 8, 2013. School is open.
I hope everyone had fun at movie night on Friday! (Apologies for not posting the flyer here. I will do that next time.)
