LDSS School Council

Principal's Report for Feb. 2012

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Listowel District Secondary School

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November 1 Minutes

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Principal's Report

1. Welcome, Introductions & Contact Information

2. Secretary and Chair

3. Parent Reaching Out Grant

4. LDSS Student Council Report

5. Principal’s Report

6. Adjournment

Principal’s Report

Everything you want to know about School Council...and more....can be found at http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/elemsec/council/

 

New Staff

Ms. Petra Goetz (Vice Principal), Ms. Colleen Caesar (English), Ms. Michele Carter (English, GLE), Ms. Rose Kellington (CWS, Social Science), Ms. Angela Milley (CASE), Ms. Erika Scheerer (Math), Mr. Tony Stecca (Science)

 

Renovations

Renovations did not commence, as expected, last summer. We are expecting them to begin any time now which will renovate two rooms for art and communications and a room for music which will include instrumental. I received an email on September 27^th indicating that tenders should be out the first week of October----so here is hoping!

 

Fund Raising

Since our Instrumental Music Campaign we have not done any full council fund raising. We have submitted our school fund raising plans to the board based on historical data.

 

Student Groups?

If you have a student group you would like to hear from at Parent Council let Alanna or I know and we will make arrangements for a representative to attend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EQAO Math and OSSLT Results

 

 

 

 

 

Parent Council Meeting Oct 4

Parent Council Meeting

Tuesday October 4th

 

 

Called to order at 6.30

In attendance:

Diane Homewood - Principle of LDSS

Jennie Versteeg - Board Trustee

John Sercombe—Support Staff Rep

Ken Bailey –Teaching Staff Rep

Soren Jakobsen—Parent Council Chair 2011-2012 Alanna Coneybeare—Student Rep

Laurie Myer & Karen Carter—Secretaries 2011-2012

Kelly Davidson—Parent Rep

 

Chair and Secretary are elected

Chair: Soren Jakobsen

Secretary duties shared between: Laurie Myer & Karen Carter

 

 

Alanna Coneybeare spoke briefly about what the Student Council is planning to do this year and what has already been done within the school. She attended a Board Meeting in Seaforth and showed the new parent website to the group present. The website can be found at www.parentvoice.ca.

 

Debate about an insert in the Independent Plus with regards to the “Listowel Communication Project”

$1000 budget - see how many inserts budget could cover

Ken is to look into the cost

 

Principle’s Corner 
- Books about Student Council was handed out to interested members

• Introduction of new teachers

• Discussed school renovations: it is still happening, just postponed. “e base” numbers rooms for renovations during the school year 136a, music room

• Safety precautions have already looked into and rooms that will be worked on during the school year will be blocked off from students and students will not be endangered

• If you want to hear from a certain speaker about a topic, just inform the board and w

• 56 % Of applied students reached level three or higher

• 91% academic students reached level three or higher

 

EQAO results are very satisfying, but we will continue to always strive for excellence

 

Next Regional Date:

November 1st at Eastdale 6:30pm

Confirmation email to be sent out the week before

 

Challenge Day

We will no longer be participating in this due to cost $10 000

Mrs. Goetz is running a different kind of leadership activity. Will not have a activity for this year, but will resume next year

 

 

Discussion about Parking lot:

We know it is terrible—Cost is extrememly high to fix

Already filled gravel and grated it

Financially it doesn't make it a priority to fix it at such a high cost

 

 

Motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:35 pm by chair

Second by: John Sercombe

All in favour

Carried

 

 

 

 

School Council Update

School Council Update

 

 

We started the thank you list today of donors to the Instrumental Music Fund. This should appear in the newspaper in the next couple of weeks.

 

Gary Dill, Head of the LDSS Tech Department, retired as of Dec. 31^st, 2010.

The new head of the Tech Department is Marcel VanLeuuwen.

 

LDSS has undergone a facilities review. This is NOT ARC…we are not even being considered for closing. However, we have been granted a huge amount of money for renovations. These renovations are to be used to update and reorganize our current space.

The Department heads are already meeting to have an initial look at our options. This will be a very exciting project but will take some time to unfold.

 

As you already know we were granted $11 000 in the summer for an Itouch/Ipad project for our Life Skills students. Those resources have arrived and we are currently receiving training and investigating how these will be used with the students. We still have some money left to add equipment as needs arise.

 

I have been working on the Parent Resource Book whenever we have a snow day. Unfortunately for the book and fortunately for our students we haven’t had to close yet and have had very few no bus days. I will continue to work on this and if I have something a little more polished before our Feb. meeting I will send it out; otherwise I will bring it to the Feb. meeting.

 

Wishing you all the best in the New Year.

Diane Homewood, Principal, LDSS

 

 

 

 

School Council Meeting Minutes Feb 15, 2011

 

 

 

LISTOWEL DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOL

SCHOOL COUNCIL

MEETING MINUTES

Feb.15/11

 

 

Present: Mrs. Homewood, Ken Bailey, Pam Coleman, John Sercombe, Linda Coghlin, Karen Carter, Soren Jakobsen and Diane Schalk

 

Regrets: Christine Campbell, Coby Scheltema, Steven Bridge, Wendy Eaton, Kim Wilken, and Laurie Myer

 

 

Correspondence and Misc.

-People for education-Nov. news letter as well as a letter to for membership fees

-Parent engagement policy book

 

Principals Report

-The music campaign went very well-ended up with over $30000.00

-A thank you was in the Banner last week for the Donors

-The course is running this semester with about 22students

-Next year it will be offered to both grade 9 &10

-there is no music room yet but the class is held in a room in the tech hall

-Exciting News-a facilities review has been done on the school and 4.1 million has been ear marked for LDSS

-the wheels are already in motion with a board team of 6 people and the department heads

-The main focus of the renovations will be teaching facilities, cafeteria, and office space

-8 projects have been ranked

-phase one to start this summer

 

 

Student Council

-Instead of a winter carnival this year the student council had travel around the world in 5 days. It was a week long event with fun activities for a different country each day of the week

-There is a dance coming up this Friday Feb. 18th

-There will be no school prom as for the party on the farm that is being planned the school has nothing to do with it.

 

 

 

Misc.

-Working on a parent handbook for next year

 

Misc. cont’d

 

-Plan to have a laminate cover which can be used year after year and just update the insert each year.

-Mrs. Homewood has already put together a very informative insert from the brainstorming ideas we came up with at the previous meeting.

-We proof read and made additional suggestions with hopes of having a final review next meeting before going to the printer

 

NEXT MEETING- Apr.5^th LDSS 6:30

 

 

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