School Council Minutes - February 2025

Teacher’s Report

• Placed a request for a crossing guard for health and safety reasons. However, the school is not qualified for a crossing
  guard due to low traffic. HS suggested to attempt to go through the board, but not may not qualify as well.
• Tent and T-Shits: placed the order, hope to be ready at track and field for track.
• Class teach for Heritage month: a student from Parkview PS prepared a presentation on black history with Drumming.
  There will be 2 presentations.
• Next month: Hellenic heritage, Greek Heritage month, Persian Heritage month, and Bangladesh Heritage month. Accept
  suggestions from families and anything missing to be added.
• Basketball tournament: no result yet.
• Grade 8 grade trip: tubing. positive results. Hill is flexible, the bus company is not flexible. Will probably change the date.
  Last year was on June 12 or 14, 2024, this year probably will be similar.

• Pancake Day: the last one was successful.
• Samosa Sale: Next is on Feb 26, 2025, ordered 1200 pieces.
• Ramadan/Fasting: Need to find how many students are on and if they can pack the pizza home. Those students usually
  stay in the office during lunch.

Upcoming Events:

• April event? suggestion that no costs to students, be careful about allergies,
  • Hot chocolate
  • Oral hygiene: concerns about toothpaste
  • Popcorn: we sell popcorn.
  • Cookies: as a surprise, a different kind, eg. eastern cookies.
  • Bubble tea: prefer to save for fundraiser
  • Jelly Bean day: April 22, 2025.
  • March 6 last year, we had Big Crunch to receive a slice of apple, maybe in April this year.
• May 13-19 - Mental Health Awareness Week - Happy Pops Day
• June TBD Year End Event - Watermelon and/or Happy Pops Station
  • Did pop station twice for last year, eg. booster juice (consider about the price and budget)
  • Some money in Healthy School may receive. Limit to healthy options.
  • Tarts: focus on fruity flavor, option for dairy free, nuts free, etc.

Grade 8 Grad - Tuesday June 24th

• In May, start to give food selections
• DJ, food, trucks, and decoration was booked
• Cake need to be ordered (from grocery store)

Fundraising

• Astoria lunch in March
• Greek food on Monday
• Feb 26 - Samosa sales
• March Bubble Tea Day, TBD in April.
• Love Gelato: start in April. May order Gelato cakes.

Special events

• Year-end SCPS Family event: evening, outside, food trucks, Kathy has experience (organizational efforts)
• Eg. movie, we have a movie license, parents bring blankets and chairs.
• Book police/fire department, consider costs, maybe be late on booking and need to react ASAP.
• Propose June 5, 2025, depending on food truck availability, consider in-door or out-door.
• Do research and vote online/motion online. As long as we do not spend any money, but free to do research.

Additional Lunch options: Meal Bets:

• similar to the kids kitchen.
• parents order through the APP the day before 2pm. small for $8/$7.99+HST, then medium and large $13.99. They are waiting for CRA to approve to remove HST
• Have Eastern meals and Western options.
• Can do it once a week. Can still deliver even only 1 order.
• Driver lives in the neighbourhood. Castlemore and a school in Cornell use this company.
• Everything is labelled.
• Their staff can stay to help on distributing
• No vegetarian/halal option.
• Everything is by weight. Ensure enough protein, veggies, etc.
• Not for fundraising, no markup even though the company has the option. No discount available.
• Proposed date option: not offered everyday. Nora will confirm which date.
• See Schedule “A” below for the sample pictures Website: https://mealbets.com/#menu

• Wednesday April 9 – Virtual
• Monday May 12 – Hybrid