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Meeting Agendas

Attendees

Council: Kathrina, Sanja, Vasavi, Neil, Yan, Hiba, Suzanne

Regrets

Cara, Shilpa, Camila, Hanadi, Shawn, Jeremy, Jing

Absent

Ahmed, Azi, Wanda, Michelle, Hakan, Herman, Fahimeh, Chaitra, Rosie, Kaira, Faye

     

Agenda Item

Notes and Resources

Next steps

Welcome and Opening Business

  1. Meeting called to order.

  2. Introductions

  3. Land Acknowledgement 

  4. Approval of Oct meeting minutes (Hanadi and Azi)

  5. Approval of agenda (Sanja and Neil)

  6. Cara discussed what she learned from the finance training for chairs.  Slides in Meetings folder

Volunteer for land acknowledgement needed each meeting

Friendship

Dance

  1. Foire Fantastique

    1. Kathrina and Cara will send an email regarding roles and responsibilities for Foire.

    2. Consider to assign leaders for each kiosk or category

    3. All members are encouraged to network within the community to get vendors and businesses to participate in our silent auction.

    4. We’ve received the same quote for inflatables as last year and Tracy is to approve the invoice and deposit.

  2. Friendship Dance

    1. Purchased similar snacks as last year with some new options. Starburst kept getting cancelled by Costco and in replacement, Fruit by the Foot was purchased.  Other choices include Teddy Pops, Chips, Fruitsations, Sour Patches.

    2. The location of the snack shack will be located in the Library this year.  Tables to be re-arranged for snack shack.

    3. This year, parent council will be working with Mrs. Titarelli and the student leadership crew.  The older students will be showing leadership with cleaning up the gym after the dance and perhaps educating the younger grades about the snack shack.  We may suggest a snack shack print out for easier selection for the candies and for the younger students.

    4. Ask Tracy to make a public announcement during the morning schedule and possibly included in google classrooms.

    5. Propose Loonie/Toonie day for left over snacks from Friendship Dance - we will check how much inventory is left.

  3. Volunteers

    1. Lead Volunteer coordinator for the Friendship Dance: Vasavi

    2. Volunteers will review the snack shack items on the day of the event.

    3. Vasavi will continue reminding parent volunteers that they must have their PRC, annual declaration and volunteer application form completed.

    4. Determine the class schedule for the dance and organize a schedule for the volunteers








Financials

  1. No new report 

  2. Ask Cathy for a preliminary SCO report for Friendship Dance

 

PIC/PRO Update

Paul Davis Presentation

  1. The content was good and very positive feedback from parents on council who were able to attend the meeting. Although information was helpful, it was not engaging and few parents from the council attended the presentation.



 

Volunteers

  1. Volunteers in need for ticket sorting and handing them out for Friendship Dance.

 

Communications

  1. Email reminders before closing sales date and share the snack shack posters with teachers.

  2. Suggest to use marquise signs to make announcements for Friendship Dance.

  3. Spread the word for parent school council Instagram ID: @sunningdalecouncil

 

Other Business

  1. New Principal: Tracy Bardell

  2. Volunteers needed for sorting snack shack tickets - will confirm in whatsapp group.

  3. Next Meeting: Monday, March 2, 2026

 

1) WELCOME COUNCIL & OPENING BUSINESS [ Cara/Kathrina: 5 min ]  

  1. Call to order

  2. Land acknowledgement

  3. Approval of February minutes

  4. Approval of March agenda

2) SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION REPORT [ T Bardell/C Novak: 20 min ]

  1. EQAO results

  2. Student Well-being, Bullying Prevention and Intervention Plan

  3. Updates on school assemblies, BHM, and Three School Pillars

3) PIC [ Sanja: 5 min ]

  1. PIC Committee Meeting update

  2. Discussion of STEM event

4) FINANCES [ Azi: 5 min ]

  1. Update on current Council finances

5) FUNDRAISING [ Camila/Kathrina/Cara: 40 min ]

  1. Overview of Friendship Dance

    1. Post-mortem by members

    2. What can we change for next year?

  2. Foire Fantastique

    1. Roles, leads, and responsibilities

    2. Food options - catering or pizza?

    3. Logistics - tables, stage?

6)  OTHER BUSINESS [ Kathrina/Cara; 15 min ]

  1. Google survey to parents

  2. Google survey or poll to teachers for feedback

  3. Introducing hybrid or childcare for meetings

  4. Parent reps

  5. New fundraiser for next year?  Or free events for families?

  6. Updates on boundary review for Oakville HS NE#1

7)  CLOSING BUSINESS [ Kathrina/Cara ]

  1. Next Council Meetings:

    1. Open meetings: May 4, June 8

    2. Sub-Committee meetings: April 13, May 25

  2. Adjourn

*Sub-Committee Planning Meetings are intended for sub-committees for event planning. Council Meetings are open to all members of the Sunningdale parent community.