Passed last meeting’s minutes.
Money has been raised - $13,231.12 - Coming from movie night and donut fundraiser.
Council decided on putting money into robotics kit School cash online - 3% of the cost - board mandated - cashless
- December snowman cookies are cash only and as of January 6 it will be solely online.
- Popcorn for the December winter dance - $1 popcorn online
- Saving cc info on account
- Looking into anticipating if parents forgot to order online to use cash for events, etc.
Halloween movie night
- Great feedback received about event from parents
- >$1000 raised
December 12 - movie night - cancelled
Hot lunches due before the winter break
Cookie Dough - $406 profit tentatively
WinterFest Games Night Thursday, January 16, 2025
- Pizza? → cannot be a fundraiser event
- Pro Grant $800 will fund wellness event for our school
- Small portion can go to snacks for the event
- Invest in classroom games (70 games) - Sorry, Sequence, Uno, Checkers, Yahtzee, etc.
- Choir presentation in the gym
- Storytelling in the library
- DPA activities in the gym after the choir
- freeze dance, musical chair, parachute
- Families to stay with children to engage in games
- Leadership opportunity for intermediate students to teach families how to play the games
- No cost to the event
- Data for families will be collected at the event
- Demonstrate our robotics learning in a showcase
Robotics at EJ
- THANK YOU for your investment into our robotics club
- Increased numbers from last year (16 → 77 students)
- Hosting event at EJ on February 6, 2024 (8:30am-2:30pm)
- 17 YRDSB schools are participating
- 5-7 judges are needed within next 2wks to judge the day of
- Training will happen on the same day
- Food/drinks will be sold and money will put pack into school
- Will explore with leadership team to share visuals/pictures via a different platform with families to explain/showcase learning at EJ and items to purchase
Cost sharing - $8000 to top off technology at EJ
- Split the cost with school $500 from council
- Invest in small headphones to have for students
- End of February items will be ordered
- Chromebooks, primary robotics, iPads, etc.
Musical - Willy Wonka - May 29, 2025
- Actors have been casted
- Reading and sets will be created
- Copyright have been bought $1000
On the horizon at EJ
- Dodgeball
- Junior boys/girls volleyball
- Primary Eco club
- Robotics
- Choir
- Drama club
- Guitar/band club
*Intermediate students are asking council to go on an ice skating rink (place where renting skates is available) - hot chocolate? Thornhill/Markham/Westmount/ - diff community centres Open ice time on a PA day or Saturday? Parents are responsible for children Waiver can be signed by families Brad Haffey to look into rinks
Elect treasurer to vote in at tonight’s meeting - Mortaza
Fun fair in the spring - start the planning
- Brad - speaking to Keith Irish council member
- Fields not maintained that we inherited since pre covid
- Ideas - gardening possibility?
- Legacy project - grant $ - by students - farmer’s market?
- Look into board maintenance? Maintenance after the winter settles around the school for another clean up for trash that accumulates
Next meeting - Monday, February 3, 2025