Following is a message from our newly re-elected School Council Chair, Irit Hartman:
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
2017/18 elected positions.
Vice Chair – Marina Murray
Treasurer – Denise Clarke
Secretary – Hanan Hadad
WHAT'S COMING UP...
I’ve outlined some key dates coming up as well as where
we could use your help for the upcoming School Council 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
27TH 5:30PM-8:30PM
WHAT IS THE HOWL? Bring the family out for a fun time on
Friday October 27th 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. All ages are welcome. We encourage all children to dress up in
their favourite costume so that they can participate in the costume contest at
6:30pm! 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” upstairs. 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 from 6:00pm onwards. This coming week you will receive an email
giving you the option to purchase a Halloween Howl Pizza Dinner through the
online School Cash system as well as a map will be sent out outlining the
activities of the evening. We prefer
that you order you Howl dinner in advance so that we ensure there is enough for
all 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:
We need donations and volunteers. Spend $10 dollars in the dollar store and
drop it off in the School Office. Email
us and say you can help out during the event at Clairleacouncil@gmail.com. We are looking for the following items:
1. VOLUNTEERS
NEEDED FOR THE HOWL… We are looking for volunteers to help run rooms/activities
during the Halloween Howl Event on October 27th. The Howl is one of our largest and most
popular events that we run at Clairlea.
In order for it to be success we need people to run the many moving parts
that make up the fun event. If you want
to help out please email us at clairleacouncil@gmail.com. We have specific openings for face painters,
Hockey players and general room helpers.
Please volunteer your time!
2. WE NEED:
DECORATIONS: We need Halloween decorations to get the school ready for the
Halloween Howl!!
- Spider Webs
- Black plastic
dollar store Table Cloths – many of these
- Police Tape
- Lots of
Candy!!!!
3. WE NEED
LOTS OF HALLOWEEN CANDY: We need lots of
peanut free Halloween candy to be used as prizes in most rooms. Please pick up a few bags of candy from the
dollar store and drop it off in the School 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 School
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 DONTATIONS: 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.
CLAIRLEA FRENCH IMMERSION HIGH SCHOOL PATHWAY…
We started this process in January 2017 and we now have
confirmation that our French Immersion High School Pathway has changed to East
York CI effective the September 2018 High School Enrollment. Come join us at our next School Council
meeting on Wednesday October 18th from 7:00-8:30pm as our guest speaker (Angela
Caccamo – Central Coordinating Principal, Teaching and Learning, TDSB) will
answer your questions regarding the Clairlea French Immersion High School
Pathway change.
SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETINGS.
WHEN DO WE MEET…
School Council meetings take place every 3rd Wednesday of
each month. Meetings are open to all
Clairlea Community members (Parents/family members of children of
Clairlea). The next school council
meeting is on Wednesday October 18th 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 October’s School Council meeting is as
follows:
7:00 – 7:40pm Guest Speaker - Angela Caccamo
(TDSB)–Clairlea French Immersion High School Pathway
7:40 – 8:00pm Administration Report (Mr. McGilvray and
Ms. Karsh)
8:00 – 8:10pm Upcoming Events (Irit)
8:00 – 8:30pm Open Discussion (All)
HOW TO REACH US…
If you 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
Chairperson,
Clairlea School Council 2017/2018
clairleacouncil@gmail.com
