Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Mid-Week Update

Thank you to all of the parents who attended our Parent Council meeting on Monday. Just a reminder that Parent Council continues to look for volunteers for many of their committees; especially Springfest. If you are interested in volunteering for this, please contact Corry Haslam or come to the office and we will point you in the right direction!

The next Ward Council Meeting is on Tuesday, May 27th @ 7:00 p.m at Norseman Public School. Topics include: New Homework Policy, School Closures in South Etobicoke, applying to Lakeshore Lions Sports Fund Grant and updates from School Councils and the Board.

Pizza lunch has been changed to June 6th everyone! Good Eating!

We continue to be busy planning for next year. Staffing continues to change and will continue over the next month as teachers apply for different positions. When we finalize the staff list (usually June), we will post on-line. We do know that our office staff, VP allocation, and caretaking staff remains the same. We dropped .5 of an educational assistant (usually helpin the kindergarten classes), and we do not know how many special needs assistants will be with us. This number will come later.

In the final report card, we will also include for you the daily schedule. Times are the same, except the periods are two minutes longer. Also, the intermediates (grade 7 & 8) will have a short indoor break in the morning instead of going outside. Their schedule is usually different as we have to account for their travelling time between classes.

Looking foward to Lambton Idol on May 20th @ 2:30 p.m. Thanks to the grade 8 students who worked so hard to put this together.