School Council Meeting Update February 3rd, 2015
Our School Council met last night and reviewed a number of school activities and provided the following updates:
School Cash Online
St. Patrick’s Intermediate is currently working through a process whereby school excursions and fee collections will be offered for completion online. We are currently tailoring the approach to our school and community, and will provide additional information once we have set up the system.
Social Media Use by Students
We spent some time at our council meeting speaking about the proactive steps our students and staff take around the encouragement of appropriate social media use. The highlights included our Digital Samaritans program, which integrates engaging online learning with appropriate choices on the internet. We also discussed the Gospel Value media presentations that each of our homebases create to encourage respect, honesty and integrity among our community.
Student Mental Health
Over the past few months, members of our staff as well as a large group of students, have been working on a presentation on the topic of Mental Wellness. The video highlights a number of statistics related to mental health, as well as a positive message of hope.
You may view the video here:
Catholic School Parent Association Updates
Main Topic : Safe Schools
● Peter Atkinson (Superintendent) began the evening going over the events of October 22, 2014. He started to describe in detail the actions in which the school board took: At 10:25 that morning, Peter received a text from the police with an advisory of the events that were enfolding downtown and recommended that all schools be placed in some sort of lock down. Our schools were placed in " Secure Schools"
Things we should know :
● The boards number one priority is our children's safety at all times
● Both students and staff are trained on all stages of lockdown procedures
● During these procedures cell phones will be turned off if police require it also, police will indicate if kids can text parents to let them know they are ok
● In case of emergency, ensure schools have all forms of contact information so that they or your children can contact you if possible
Next CSPA meeting and Topic:
Wednesday, February
Thanks or posting update on council. Wasn't able to make it last night.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this update dear. Anyway I am also conducting a meeting this week but I do not have sufficient place to do that. That is why I am looking for good meeting rooms for that. Do you have any suggestion for me?
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