JO PAC Minutes – November 17, 2021
Date: Nov 17th, 2021
Location: Zoom
Attendance: Shannon Kaplun – PAC Chair, Darnelle Moore – Secretary, Samantha Anderson – DPAC Rep, Lara Spence – Communications, Sue Bains – Treasurer, Corina Tataru – Communications, Brent Schieman – JO Principal
- 22 others
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Meeting called to order – Shannon
Motion to accept minutes from Oct 20th, 2021 PAC Meeting/2nd – Corina/George
Motion to adopt the agenda for tonight’s meeting/2nd – Corina/George
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Item 1 – Student Updates Fatima Maje and Jacob Valinho (President of the Student Council)
- Talked about Chess Club
- Talked about Investor’s club
- Talked about Student Council
- Talked about issues with student washrooms including hooks in stalls and locks on stall doors
- Need to coordinate with school administration
- Shannon asked if the Student Council would like to have a standing appointment to speak and share at the monthly PAC meetings
- Their role would be to advocate for the student body as students
- To present student point of view to the PAC
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Item 2 – Staff Liason Nancy P
- Nothing big going on
- Teachers are looking for feedback on the semester system
- There are pros and cons
- She has asked parents to please ask their kids how things are going and what their thoughts are on the semester system
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Item 3 – Principal’s Report Brent Schieman
Literacy Exam
- Literacy exam is NOT based on any English course
- It involves being able to read and gather information from many different written sources and then be able to communicate those ideas in various written outputs
- Occurs in grade 10 and in grade 12
- Scored out of 4
- UBC will require a 3 of 4 minimum in order to be accepted to any programs
- At JO grade 10’s will write in April, grade 12’s will write in January (in case they need to rewrite)
- Encourage grade 12’s to do practice exam on the Ministry website
- JO students (VSB students) have never written the grade 12 Literacy exam before
Power Outage
- Decided to keep students at the school as it was only about an hour without power and the school was bright enough
- District staff came to assess
Pro D Day on Nov 26
JO Classic is ON and spectators will be allowed!
Grad is looking at Chan Centre for the ceremony again but because of not being allowed to ask students to show proof of vaccination, it might not be feasible
School Field Trips are allowed back in January but there are still lots of things to consider regarding vaccination passports
- Parents expressed concerns about wanting their kids to be able to attend field trips
- Parents asked if there was a way to make field trip forms that would take these things into consideration
- It is a VSB issue rather than an individual school decision
Finance Committee (teachers/staff) want to ensure that there is equity when it comes to distribution of funds
- Consider that this PAC is for the entire student body and not for Mini School only
- Fund requests for teachers/staffs/clubs have been submitted and reviewed by Mr. Scheiman and the Fincance Committee
- The requests that made the cut are all submitted and PAC can see all the requests (some funding requests can be better supported by other means or do not qualify for PAC funding)
- Group of PAC volunteers will meet in December to grant the requests and distribute the funds equitably
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Item 4 Financial Update Sue Bains
Account Balances
- Gaming Account Balance – $21267.17
- ($20980.00 gaming grant came through)
- Consultative Account $6123.97
- Legacy Account $1082.14
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Item 5 Fundraising Opportunities
- Decided to try to push the Purdy’s fundraiser for the remaining few days
- Will try to get it going sooner for next year
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Item 6 DPAC Update Samantha Anderson
- See previous meeting notes for definition/purpose of DPAC
- Transparent Planning Motion was passed
- DPAC will take this motion to the VSB
- Nov 23rd DPAC hosting with OK and Surrey School Boards “Kids and Covid” all about the Vaccination rollouts for younger kids
- If you have any comments or concerns, please contact samjanderson@gmail.com
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Upcoming Meetings
January 19, Feb 16, April 20, May 18 – 7pm, Zoom
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