Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Recap of 2022-23 School Year

The St. Philip School Council would like to thank teachers, staff, and the parent community for your support of our council initiatives over the past year.  

Our goal as a council is to enhance our children’s educational opportunities.

School council supported the following activities during the 2022-23 school year:

·        Scientists in the School

·        Jungle Sport (indoor mobile climbing gym)

·        Luv2Groove

·        Educator support initiative – up to $100 per staff member to purchase items for use with their students

·        Purchase of resources for learning commons (funds raised through Gift of Reading)

·        Invention Convention and Science Fair

·        New sports equipment for the gym

·        T-shirts for grade 6 graduates

·        Outdoor “yard bags” (sports balls, skipping ropes, other items to be used during recess)

·        Teacher requests

o   French-English picture dictionaries

o   Indigenous resources for Kinder classes

·        Field trips for sister school, Thomas D’Arcy McGee School in Vanier

 

2022-23 School Community Events:

·        Christmas social

·        Year-end Fun Fair

 

2022-23 Fundraising activities:

·        Hot Lunch Program: JoJo’s pizza and the Lunch Lady

·        Year-end Fun Fair

·        Little Caesars pizza kit sales

·        Mabel’s labels

·        Gift of Reading in support of the Learning Commons

 

Please consider joining our team of fun and dedicated parents. We will be electing our next school council executive at the first meeting in the new school year, on Monday, September 18, 2023. 

The school council meets once a month in the St. Philip Learning Commons. All parents/guardians are encouraged and welcome to attend our meetings.  

For up-to-date council news and access to our meeting minutes, please visit the school council blog at http://stphilipschoolcouncil.blogspot.ca/



2022-23 School Council Executive

Suzanne Easton and Michelle McIver, Co-Chairs

Fiona Bassett Cram and Sarah Prince, Secretaries

Chelsea Fowler and Shondra McLean, Co-Treasurers

Heather Gordon, Parish Rep

Janna Redmond and Stacey Woodruff, CSPA Reps

Jodi Eady and Tina Gooch, Community Reps