Home & School Nov 23rd Meeting Minutes

The last Home and School meeting had lots of discussions around the budget. Please click here to see the minutes of this meeting.

The next meeting is Wednesday, December 15th starting at 7:00 pm in the Staff Lounge. Everyone is welcome and as always, free child care will be held in the Kinder room.

Gift Card Fundraiser - DEADLINE Dec 8th at 9 am

Before we leave on Winter Break, we have one last fundraiser that many of you will be interested in.  We are working with a company called FundScrip that will allow you to purchase gift cards for a number of stores (including Loblaws, Sobey's, Metro, Gap, HMV, etc) and a portion of the gift card value will go back to McMurrich.  These gift cards are sold at gift card value to you!  Check here for more information and details.

We will be placing a bulk order December 8th and cards will be distributed the following week in time for gift-giving season!  If it is successful we can continue to order online throughout the rest of the school year.  If you have any questions please contact Tabatha.  This information will also be sent home with your kids.

Happy Shopping!

Sports Practice Schedule and Intermural Schedule

Please check our Sports website for the latest practice and intermural floor hockey schedules!

November PE Students of the Month and the Golden Shoe Awards!!!

Congratulations to the November PE Students of the Month!

Primary - Hanna (Rm 209) and Finlay (Rm 208)
Junior - Abraham (Rm 203) and Sabrina (Rm 301)

The excitement continues for the Golden Show Winners for November with the 429,957 jumping jacks performed by the entire student body!
Primary - Room 203
Junior - Room 300 (with over 6,000 jumping jacks PER STUDENT) 
Congratulations to everyone!  Let's gear up for a favourite challenge for December - Burpees!  Good luck!

Pizza Lunch Volunteers for Nov 26th!!!

Our next Pizza Lunch is this Friday, November 26th and we need parent volunteers!  If you are interested in volunteering from 11:15 am - 12:15 pm please contact Angela!

Home & School Meeting - November 23rd at 7 pm

Please join us tomorrow for the Home & School meeting at 7 pm.  Free child care is available in the Kinder rooms.  We have a number of topics to cover tomorrow including final review and voting on our budget.  Agenda for the meeting is below:

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Principal Mary Anne Davis’ report
• Mary Anne will not be in attendance at this month’s meeting. Her report will be delivered by one of the Co-Chairs.
3. Further Discussion and decisions of how to spend the money raised during the 2009-10 year.
• Last year, the Home and School Association raised substantially more funds than the average year mostly due to the McMusic Fundraising evening. This month’s meeting will focus on finalizing the decisions about how those additional funds (approximately $13,000) should be allocated . There will be time for discussion and then decisions will be made by parents who attend this meeting.
• The teacher representative at the meeting (or the Co-Chairs on behalf of the teachers), will bring forward the teachers’ thoughts and ideas as to where funds could be spent to help the school.
• Some ideas that were floated at the last meeting were: musical instruments, computers, sports equipment, a digital projector for the gym, seed money for the garden project, and the 100th year anniversary (2012). Each of these ideas will be revisited at this meeting.
• There are many ways that the funds could be spent.
• Please join us at the next meeting to share your ideas.   ALL PARENTS ARE WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DISCUSSION.  After the options are discussed, a vote will take place to make final decisions.
4. Other business

Indigo Fundraiser Tonight!

A quick reminder of our Indigo Fundraiser tonight at Yorkdale!  Bring your friends and family to shop at Indigo tonight - 10% of the total sales will come directly back to McMurrich!

See you there between 6 and 9 pm!

Call for Class Parent Volunteers!!

Thank you to all of the parents who volunteered to be Classroom Parent Representatives!  However, we still need your help!  There are a few classrooms that do not yet have Classroom Parent Representatives.  To give you a bit more information, these are the responsibilities of the role:

• Making a Class List (with contact information) for each student in the class
• Assisting in recruiting parent volunteers for the class (e.g. field trips) and the school (e.g. Potluck, Fun Fair or Pizza Lunches)
• Act as a liasion between the Teacher and the Parents in the class
• Help Parents meet one another

All of this should only take 2 hours of your time each month!  PLUS it gives you a wonderful opportunity to make a valuable contribution to your child's school and directly with your child's classroom.

Here are the classrooms that still need Classroom Parent Representatives:

Rm 206 - DHH 1/2 - K. Chwaiewsky
Rm 201 - DHH 3/4 - F. McIntyre
Rm 207 - DIAG - L. McCollin
Rm 203 - Gr 3/4 - J. Davis
Rm 109 - HSP - D. Marshall
Rm 104 - JK/SK AM - A. Gamandie-Marshall
Rm 104 - JK/SK PM - A. Gamandie-Marshall
Rm 300 - Gr 4/5 - C. Cooley
Rm 308 - Gr 6 - Z. Capitao-Tavares
Rm 309 - MID - J. Flynn

If you are interested please fill in this document and send to the Class Parent Coordinator or drop it off in the School Office.

Home & School October 20th Meeting Minutes

The last Home & School meeting had lots of discussions including the volunteer committees and the proposed budget.  Please click here to see the minutes of this meeting. 

The next meeting will include discussions and voting on the proposed budget - please join us to make your voice heard!  The next meeting is Tuesday, November 20th starting at 7:00 pm in the Staff Lounge.  As always, free child care will be held in the Kinder room.

Grade 6 Boys Football - The City Champions!

Congratulations to our Grade 6 Boys Football team for winning the City Championship on Tuesday, November 2nd at Birchmount Stadium.  Way to go!!!