Dear Clairlea
Families…
The school year is well
underway and things are getting busy and we as your School Council are working
hard to put forth a fun year! We have had our first School Council
meeting which included the elections for the School Council executive. Congratulations
to our 2016/17 elected positions:
Vice Chair – Marina Murray
Treasurer & Secretary – Denise Clarke
WHEN DO WE MEET…
School
Council meetings take place every 3rd Wednesday of each month.
Meetings are open to all in Clairlea Community. The next school council
meeting will take place on Wednesday October 19th from 7pm-8:30pm.
Free child minding is available. We hope to see you there! From time to time we
will arrange guest speakers to attend the meetings.
The Agenda
for School Council meeting usually follow this format:
6:50 –
7:00pm Sell 50/50 tickets (optional)
7:00 –
7:10pm Introduction and voting in the past minutes
(Irit)
7:10 –
7:35pm Administration Report (Mr. McGilvray and Ms. Karsh)
7:35 –
7:45pm Treasurer’s Report (Denise)
7:45 –
8:00pm Fundraising Report (Irit)
8:00 –
8:25pm Open Discussion (All)
8:25 –
8:30pm 50/50 draw
WHAT'S COMING UP.....
I’ve outlined below some
key dates coming up as well as where we could use your help for the upcoming
events at the school. Please have a look through and as always we want to
hear your comments so please contact us via clairleacouncil@gmail.com Other
places to look for information about Clairlea School Council Events are; The
School Council bulletin board located outside the Main Office and the
School Council Blog http://clairleacouncil.blogspot.com to keep up to date of what is
going on!
SAVE THE DATE:
OUR ANNUAL CLAIRLEA HALLOWEEN HOWL EVENT - FRIDAY
OCTOBER 28TH 5:30PM-8:30PM
HOWL VOLUNTEER MEETING: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5TH
7:00PM
WHAT IS THE HOWL? Bring the children out for a fun time on Friday
October 28th from 5:30-8:30pm where many rooms at Clairlea
School turn into a fun activity or game. Entry is only $5.00/per
child and parents are free. We encourage all children to dress up in
their favourite costume so that they can participate in the costume contest!
Bring your own loot bag/recycle bag to the Howl so that you can collect all
your goodies when traveling from room to room and partake in fun activities –
featuring our very popular “HAUNTED LIBRARY”. All are welcome so tell
your friends, neighbours, family. You do NOT need to be a student
at Clairlea to attend the Howl.
We will be
offering the option of a pizza dinner during the event so there is no need to
make dinner. Make things easier on yourself and leave the dinner to us
and you just need to enjoy the event and pick up your dinner in the gym. Check
the backpacks over the next couple of weeks to look for a preorder dinner
envelope along with a map featuring all activities for the night or you can
purchase your dinner on the night of the event.
In order
for this event to run smoothly we need your help! Please see the list
below indicating ways you can help make the Halloween Howl a great success!
HOW CAN YOU HELP:
Starting October 3rd there will be a large
blue bin in front of the main office of the school where you can drop off
items. Spend $5 in the dollar store and drop it off in the
bin. We are looking for the following items:
1. VOLUNTEER MEETING FOR
THE HOWL… (WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5TH) We are looking for volunteers to help run rooms/activities
during the Halloween Howl Event on October 28th. Please join
us at the Volunteers meeting on Wednesday October 5th at 7:00pm in
the Staff Room to see how you can help. The Howl is one of our largest
and most popular events that we run at Clairlea. In order for it to be a
success we need people to run the many moving parts that make up the fun
event. If you want to help out but can’t attend the meeting please email
us at clairleacouncil@gmail.com.
2. WE NEED: DECORATIONS: We need Halloween
decorations to get the school ready for the Halloween Howl!! Visit the
dollar store to pick up some items and drop them off in the blue bin in front
of the main office.
- Spider Webs – many of these
- Black plastic
dollar store Table Cloths – many of these
-
Police Tape
3. WE NEED: HALLOWEEN
CANDY: We
need peanut free Halloween candy to be used as prizes in various rooms.
Please pick up a bag or two of candy from the dollar store and drop it off in
the blue bin in front of the main office.
4. WE NEED: HOME MADE CANDY
JARS/BAGS: We need many candy jars/bags to be
used as prizes for the Lollipop Pull room. You can help by filling any
sized jar or little baggy with (nut free) candy and bring it to the school office
anytime between now and the Halloween Howl. The more jars we have the
longer this room will be able to stay open and it is definitely one of the
favourite rooms. In past years we have needed approximately 400 jars/bags
to have this room open for the entire event. Feel free to decorate your
jars as well.
5. WE NEED: LOLLIPOPS FOR
THE LOLLIPOP PULL: We need 400 plus lollipops to fill
up the peg board for the Lollipop Pull Game. Please pick up a few bags of
lollipops from the dollar store and drop them off in the blue bin in front of
the main office. The more lollipops we have the longer the room can stay
open. I’ve attached a picture of the lollipops that fit well in the peg
board.
6. PERSONAL AND/OR
CORPORATE DONATIONS: We are always looking for gift
donations that we can use as prizes or raffles during the Halloween Howl.
If you
or your company would like to donate a prize or gift to be used as one of our
prizes during the event please contact us at clairleacouncil@gmail.com.
DIELEMAN DFS
CATALOG (FORMERLY
KNOWN AS NORCARD)…
(ALL ORDERS AND
PAYMENTS ARE DUE FRIDAY OCTOBER 21st) Check your backpacks… Over the
last week you would have received the 2016 DFS Catalog. This shopping
catalog is filled with items you can order such as; calendars, greeting
cards, stationary items, jewelry, kitchen items, Home Décor and much more
just in time for the holiday season. The Ordered Items will arrive late November early December
2016. All money (cash or cheque) and order forms (with completed
legible contact information and order details) must be returned to your
classroom no later than FRIDAY OCTOBER 21st 2016. Please make all cheques payable to
“Clairlea School Council”. If you have not received the Catalog or need an additional
order form we have left extras in the Main Office. This fundraiser
enables Clairlea to receive up to 50% of all orders made. Late orders
will not be accepted and will be returned back to you.
PIZZA
LUNCH…. We had our first pizza lunch of the year and despite a couple of hiccups
on the part of pizza pizza we were able to service approximately 80% of the
classes that submitted pizza envelopes and placed orders and we thank the
remaining 20% classes for their patience as they received the second round of
pizza within the hour or sooner. Although we always order the
pizzas to be cut in slices of 10 each pizza, in error all pizzas arrived precut
in slices of 8 per pizza which entail caused a shortage of over 130 slices of
pizza which were promptly reordered and arrived and were distributed within the
hour. The few classes that had a delayed pizza arrival had received
their snacks and drinks.
PIZZA REMINDERS:
Each month a Pizza
Lunch order envelope will be distributed to each student by their homeroom
teacher. This envelope will enable you to order Pizza for one or both Pizza
lunch days for that month (the second and last Wednesday of each month).
You can indicate what type of pizza as well as how often you would like your
child to have pizza lunch. If you would like to participate in the Pizza
Lunch program, please fill out the envelope order form with the student’s
full name, teacher’s name and circle the order you would like along with which
days you would like to receive pizza. Please enclose in the envelope the EXACT
amount of money or a cheque to pay for the pizza lunch. Cheques should be made
payable to “Clairlea School Council”. Please return the envelope to the
teacher by the date indicated at the bottom of the envelope (usually by the
Friday before the Pizza Lunch date). On Pizza Lunch Day (always the
second Wednesday and the last Wednesday of the month) your student’s order will
be delivered to their classroom by lunchtime!
Before
submitting the envelope please take a moment to ensure that the front of the
envelope has been completed properly with the students name and they have
selected all items (type of pizza and drink). This will ensure that your
child gets what they wanted on Pizza day!
If you have
more than one child in the school we ask that you submit a separate envelope
for each child that way their order can be processed with their class. It
is ok to pay for multiple children in one envelope and simply submit an empty
completed envelope for the other children and just indicate on the empty
envelope the name of the child the money was submitted with.
Due to the
large volume of pizza that is processed at our school we are required to place
the pizza order two days prior to the pizza lunch day so it is important that
we receive all envelopes by the deadline to ensure it is included in the order.
HOW TO
REACH US…
If you would like to be added to the School Council email 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
Chairperson, Clairlea
School Council
2016/2017
