Date: Feb 28, 2022

Attendees: Chris Daum, Alaric, Jon Lau, Yanny, Jeta Hasimja Babalia, Carl, Dorothy, Belle, Kaylie’s Mom (Yvonne), Mabel, Winton

Minutes Adoption – Yanny, Belle

Agenda Adoption – Jon, Carl

Financial Report

• Jan/Feb: Not too much material changes, not much activities
• $19K in general account
• Gaming account $8K
• $2200 in gift cards
• $29K balance total
• Pizza days are back on, we should see a bit more activities in March

Pizza Day

• Orders are slowly coming back up
• PAC were talking about purchasing gift cards directly from Fresh Slice with 20% discount
  • Put that on hold because of uncertainties around pandemic
• Bought $2000 worth of gift cards
  • High turnover with gift cards, so almost getting a free pizza day every 2 months ($500 every 2 months)
  • We were able to lock in buying up to $6000 worth of cards down the road

Food Days

• Try to get sushi day for Thurs just to get a dry run for it, before we get into April
• Will coordinate with Sushi Lovers, to see if we can get one off sushi day on March 10
• Will be ordered through Munch a Lunch
• Look out for announcements this coming week
• We can also look at Win-Win Chicken days
• Used to be all Wed and Thu for food days, now slowly adding more

Krispy Kreme Fundraising

• On right now, going on until this Wed (last day to purchase)
• Box of 12, selling for $13
• Donuts delivered following week, with pickup at front of school

Band Music

• Band donation
• Ms. Khoo received a donation of music sheets from retiring teacher with 4 filing cabinets in size (to come over Spring Break)
• Expects these to be stored at Wowk, and not travelling with her
• Person is asking for honorarium, sharing with PAC and school of $200 in total
• Value of these music sheets are in thousands

Extra Curricular Ideas

• PAC brings in a few programs, Art or Dance, for whole school community but we haven’t been able to do it except for mural
• Bouncing ideas on what we can do towards end of year
  • Opening that up to everyone to see if they have ideas
  • Hiphop dance, K pop dance, other sports like tennis, badminton, fencing, ultimate
  • We are thinking for after spring break
• - Will open this to the staff as well to see what ideas they have
  • Maybe supplement PE programs, or dance
  • Look at what Track and Field looks after the break. We’ve missed for 2 years now (for Gr 3 and up)
  • Will try to find a nice balance for teachers
• - Sports Day
  • Ms. Gustafson and Ms. Teng are thinking of Sports Day for school
  • PAC in the past have brought in food truck, and M&M Meat Shop do BBQ

Mural Project

• Date has not been set for unveiling yet

Outdoor Ed

• Planning for 2023 Outdoor Ed kids
• Default location is Cheakamus Camp in Squamish
• The earlier we can pay deposit to secure camp is better
• Normally outdoor ed is something that is over 2-3 days and we have transportation cost for kids
• Last year, we were able to do it over 1 day, but hopefully can bring it back to its full capacity next year

Principal’s Admin Report

• -Looking at different ways to connect with families, and different times of day
• What is happening in Ukraine
  • Happening in conjunction of pandemic
  • See how this is impacting our students and having some conversations with our kids
  • Thinking of mental health of students, and anxiety, and how we can help each other
  • Chances are students are going to be talking about this in the school
  • Hope to help develop mentally how to have conversations with this
  • Some things we will talk about:
    • Mindful of biases and how people’s level of understanding influence how your child thinks
    • Understanding issues with multiple perspectives
    • Stick to the facts, based on overview of what is happening (e.g. based on an article)
    • This is not how everybody in this country acts, don’t demonize people
    • Giving kids the opportunity what they can do, or how they can help
      • This is where the conversation comes in, e.g. fundraising, advocating
  • More to come and important for school staff to take on this work
• All students received 5 rapid test kits
  • Ask students to hand those to parents/guardians right away from backpack
  • Instructions to use is in an email with links
• Mural
  • Mindful of, and have timely unveiling
  • We cannot have gatherings so far, but spring would be a better time to do it, and hopefully by that time we can invite more families (after Spring break)
• Report Cards
  • Parent Portal is a means to provide information and reports to parents, using MyEd portal
    • In March, will not receive hard copy of report card
    • Parents need to log in to MyEd portal space and access report card digitally
    • Province is really supporting the use of MyEd portal
    • Pros: Saves a ton of paper, and ensures it gets directly to parent, and can access even if they are away
    • Cons: Learning how to get there, passwords
    • If parents have no access to a device, they can request a hard copy from the school
    • Any questions, please call the school
    • Important is a conversation with the family first, and important to talk as a family about the report card
    • Using paper report cards, might be a tricky situation if all students get all the report card at the same time, then it might become a “public” situation
      • With MyEd, it is safer for the students to have a conversation with their family about the report cards first
• Volleyball
  • Two terms because successful
  • May explore basketball in 3rd term
  • Thank Mr. Woo and Mr. Angman to enable volleyball
• K to 12 Protocols
  • Moving forward, we can start opening our doors a bit more and having families in the school a bit more
  • Before only individuals that come in directly to help students are allowed, e.g., Speech and Language Therapist, Counsellor
  • Now we can invite more people in
  • Parents: If you are looking to talk with your child’s teacher, please call the school and make an appointment
    • Make sure mandatory health declaration
    • Going to only your designated spaces
    • Sign in when arrive at school
  • We can now have school assemblies and school events
    • As a staff, working through this to see how to do this safely
    • More info to come
  • Parents did tremendous job in supporting kids to following K to 12 protocols; and proud of staff
• Conferences
  • Thank you for connecting with your child’s teacher
  • For most teachers, this conference used to be student led, but some teachers went to do 1-on-1
  • Some teachers may be holding off a little bit, and maybe doing it in a different manner, like doing it outside (different teachers have different comfort levels)
  • Appreciate everyone’s understanding and flexibility with that
• Track and Field
  • Haven’t done this for 2 years
  • We are in the better spot, but don’t know if there will be district track meetings
  • In the past, schools spent 3rd term learn, and then having competitions in Track and Field at Minoru
  • Don’t know if it will happen in that scope and scale, but we do know we can still take on the learning with students
    • Can still do Track Attack and learn about the sport of Track and Field
  • We can do possible school competition or partner with 1 or 2 schools for smaller competition
• Sports Day
  • Potential for June, might be able to invite families
  • More to come