Canadian Parents for French

February 18, 2013

Meeting Minutes

 In attendance:  Kari Eisner, Carolyn DeFreitas, Dina VonHahn, Maxine Champion, Alison Forget, Linda Wilson

Approval of Minutes: approved, seconded and carried

Principal Report: Maxine Champion, Ecole Mountainview

Ecole Mountainview held a week of Carnaval activities at the end of January and it was a huge success.  The children had a very good time and really enjoyed the grade 7’s from Skeena coming to visit.  A few grade 10 students also came up to help with the pancake breakfast this year and the children enjoyed seeing them too.  Thank you to those who helped make it such a success.  Mountainview currently has 29 kindergarten children already registered for next year.  At this point, they have 168 students for Sept. 2013.  The grade 4 students are currently completing their FSA’s.  A school-wide reading program started recently and the children are very excited about the possibility of an ice cream party and duck taping Mme. Champion to the wall.  The reading program goes until the first week of March.  Report cards come out March 11^th, therefore March 13^th and 14^th are short days.  Spring break is for 2 weeks starting March 18^th. In preparation for Concours Oratoire next week, Ecole Mountainview will be holding an assembly on Feb.28^th  in which the top 6 of each class will be presenting their speeches to the school.  PALS (Parents of Literacy Support) will also be held this week.

Presidents Report:

Two Kobo’s have been given to the Terrace Public Library along with e-gift certificates to load French titles onto them.  If anyone has any suggestions for books please pass them on to Carolyn.

In February, the Terrace CPF handed out a newsletter to FI and Francophone students in EMV, Skeena, Cal and Ecole Jack Cook.  Discussion around the dates of future meetings.  Decisions regarding this to be tabled until the next AGM.

The Terrace Chapter of CPF has created its own Facebook page and now has 29 likes.  This was created by Carolyn and Linda and includes links and upcoming events. 

Cabane A Sucre Update – There are currently areas at Onion Lake with no snow but we are hoping that it will hold until March 3.  Patrick Witwicki from AFFNO will be coming at noon with the Maple syrup.  The CPF tent will need to be picked up and brought to Cabane A Sucre.  Carolyn reported that Forestry Services may have an ETV (Emergency Terrain Vehicle) that we may be able to use for First Aid purposes.  Julie is bringing out her fire pit to use.  Rich has agreed to provide fire wood.  Posters have already been designed and are in the process of being distributed. A coloring contest will be distributed to the Kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2’s students in each of the schools.  This picture is to be done prior to Cabane A Sucre and brought with the children to Onion Lake on March 3 (this was done as a form of advertisement).  Discussion around possible prize options for this.  Skiing may still be possible although it is looking more and more unlikely. Snowshoeing may also be possible depending on the weather.  Discussion around alternative activities if there is no snow.  Possibilities included: a scavenger hunt on Troll Trail; golfing; and Bonhomme targets.  Chantel is organizing the canteen and has parent and staff volunteers from Ecole Jack Cook ready to help.

Directors Report

Dina – Concours Oratoire plans are underway.  All students that participate will receive Participation Certificates.  Discussion around prizes for each grade and cash prizes for grade 6 -12.  This event will take place March 2, starting at 9am.  Judges and an MC are lined up.  We will be having door prizes as well. 

Flo – Teacher Appreciation Night.   It is to be held on Thursday Feb. 21 at 7 pm at Cafenara.  It will be a small group but fun. 

Book Reserve Update - The process of spending the Book Reserve at Skeena Middle School is still in progress.  The Book Reserve is in a GIC at the Credit Union, Gina is the contact person for this fund.  There was $2435.00 in the fund all of which must be spent before the end of the fiscal year (March 31, 2013).  Approximately $890.45 has already been spent and there is $400.00 from the Terrace Public Library, $200 from Cal and $400 from Skeena outstanding.  We have approximately $540.00 left at this point.  The remainder of this money could be spent easily between Ecole Mountainview and Ecole Jack Cook to enhance their school library collections.    

Treasurer’s Report  – Currently there is $2308.40 in our general account.  The gaming account has $1953.65 in it.

Secretary’s Report – Volunteer hours were collected from members.  The secretary would like it noted that she will be resigning at the end of this school year.

New Business

Terrace Chapter Website on CPF BC site – discussion tabled until next meeting.    

Shredville at Shames Mtn., March 23, 2013 – We have been invited by Shames Mtn to do maple taffy, tire sur la neige, during “Shredville”. CPF Terrace will purchase the syrup and ski hill staff will serve it. Bonhomme will be on site to promote French cultural traditions in our community.  

Next Meeting – To be held at Ecole Jack Cook, date to be announced. 

Canadian Parents for French

November 27, 2012

Meeting Minutes

In attendance:  Kari Eisner, Carolyn DeFreitas, Flo Sheppard,  Julie Livgard, Dina VonHahn, Chantel Maheux, Alison Forget, Cory Killoran

Approval of Minutes: approved, seconded and carried

Principal Report: Cory Killoran, Skeena Middle School

Skeena Middle School has had a good start to the year although they do have issues around resources.  The school is addressing these issues as they arrive - Grade 7 & 8 resources are currently needed.  Mme. Begin has been helping with this (borrowing books from Ecole Mountainview).  An order worth $4000 – $5000 is also being put together.  French immersion students are now receiving double the amount of time in FI than they previously did due to the block scheduling – Math and science are now available in French.  Exploratory instructors are being very flexible and helpful in arranging the timetable to work with the FI students as well.  A couple of students from Jack Cook are taking online courses at a grade 8 level.  FI students are mixing with other students during the exploratory classes. Grade 9 FI students however, are not able to pick their electives due to the time tabling.  Grade 7 has 21 FI students, grade 8 has 14 FI students and grade 9 has 9 FI students.  Skeena Middle School has 632 students in total.    If our CPF chapter would like to have any information passed on to the students, parents or staff at Skeena we can email it to Phillip Barron and he will put it in the newsletter.  Any information we want in the Christmas newsletter needs to be sent to Phillip Barron by Dec. 5, 2012.

Flo – reported that Skeena has been an extremely positive experience for her daughter. 

Resources – Dina delivered a letter to Skeena Middle School offering $800.00 from the Terrace CPF Chapter for resources.

French Award – Our Chapter of CPF would like to offer an award for a student at Skeena Middle School (similar to the one offered at Ecole Mountainview).  Discussion ensued around the reason for the award and the possibility of giving out 2 awards – one for FI students and the other for CORE French students. 

President’s Report:

Festival de Famille – The festival will begin with a performance by Angela Roy from 1-2 pm, followed by an intermission from 2-3 pm in which we will have 6 carnival games, pictures with Bonhomme and crepes for sale and from 3-4 pm well-known local musicians will perform Traditional Quebecois, Acadian and Cajun music.  Our chapter received a $100.00 contribution from Skeena Diversity. 

Sociocultural applications – We received 5 of the 7 grants we requested.  One of the grants was denied and one is conditional.  In total we received $3162.50 in cultural grants.  They include:

·        $175.00 for Idelaire

·        $962.50 for Caban A Sucre

·        $275.00 for the summer French camp

·        $1250.00 for a Regional French Entertainer

·        $500.00 for Concours Public Speaking Competition

A reminder that the Gaming Banner needs to be brought to the Festival de Famille. 

Angela Roy has been scheduled for Jan.16 & 17, 2013.  She will do one workshop and one school assembly at EMV.  Should there be expressed interest in French entertainers at the Middle School –level, we would be pleased to see it provided.

Book Reserve Fund- there is still $800.00 left in the book reserve.  We are proposing to buy the  Terrace Public Library 2 Kobo Readers – 1 relevant for students in middle school and 1 for students in senior school.  Each Kobo will contain at least 3 French book titles.  Also discussed was a display piece for the library which directs patrons to the location of French books. Jess Dafoe has discarded many of the old French books, deciding to hold a smaller collection of more preferred titles. Still underway are the French “themed book-bags”, we have funded the purchase of materials to fill 12 such bags. Motion made to spend $400.00 for Kobo’s and $400.00 for a promotional display for French books at the Terrace Public Library.  Approved and seconded.

Director’s Reports:

Dina reported that Concours will be held on March 2, 2013. Agnes Casgrain, the Principal of Kinkalda in Kitimat informed Dina the Concours winner and chaperon, will be fully funded (airfare and hotel), to attend  provincials in Vancouver this year.  Students in grades 6-12 will be competing.  Students in grades 4 & 5 receive participation prizes. 

Caban A Sucre – will be held the following day – March 3, 2013. Our Chapter would like to promote it as a “French Weekend” for students and their families. 

Caledonia Sr. Sec. currently has 4 students from Quebec here on a student exchange.  They will be returning home on Friday.  Dina reported that they have had a wonderful time and made a lot of new friendships.  Richard Claire is the instructor at Caledonia who is responsible for all of the arrangements for this exchange trip.  4 students from our community will be going to Quebec in February for 3 months. 

Teacher Appreciation Tea – Flo has agreed to plan this event and is currently considering the third week of January to hold it.  She would like to hold it at Cafenara again.  Last year, our Chapter spent under $200.00.  She will speak to Cafenara about the details.

Movie Night – Discussion around the possibility of another movie night being held during the end of March or the beginning of April as CPF will have a list of French movies available at that time.

Treasurer Report:  In our Gaming Account we have $1667.70 and we will have $2442.00 in our General Account after we pay for Angela Roy in January. 

New Roles for CPF:

Social Media Sub Committee – Carolyn would like to create a facebook page and possibly a website but we need to form a subcommittee.  Linda has offered to be on it.  Discussed the possibility of asking Sarah Zimmerman to join as well. 

Next Meeting – Wednesday, January 16 at Caledonia Sr. Secondary, 7pm.

The Terrace Chapter of the Canadian Parents for French is excited to present our Festival de Famille (Family Festival). Angela Roy (www.expression.bc.ca) is a bilingual performer who uses world beats and rythyms in her performances. Also Les Copains du Nord, a group of local string performers will be playing traditional Quebecois, Acadian and Cajun music.

 In addition to music and dancing, there will les jeux (games), les crepes & les boissons (crepes and drinks), et photos avec Bon Homme.

For more information, please contact Linda Wilson.

Admission is by donation to the Canadian Parents for French - Terrace Chapter

Canadian Parents for French

October 29, 2012

Meeting Minutes

 In attendance:  Kari Eisner, Patrick Witwicki, Carolyn DeFreitas , Julie Livgard, Dina VonHahn, Chantel Maheux (Jack Cook Representative), Renee Syvret, Alison Forget

Call to Order:  7:07pm

Approval of Minutes –approved, seconded and carried

Principal Report – Renee Syvret, Ecole Jack Cook

Ecole Jack Cook currently has 35 pupils which have been divided into 3 classes - a Kindergarten/ grade 1 class, a grade 2/3, and a grade 4,5,6,7 class.  Renee has one staff member on sick leave, and a new teacher from Africa is filling in.

Renee is still teaching French Classes for adults on Tuesday evenings.  The Beginners Class is from 6:30 – 7:30 pm and Conversational French is from 7:30 – 8:30 pm.  Anyone is welcome to join at any time although classes do run for 10 week sessions.

President’s Report:

Our chapter applied for 7 socio-cultural grants last month.  In order of preference they include:

1.      Caban A Sucre - March 3, 2013 - $962.50

2.      Concours - March 2, 2013 - $550.00

3.      French Cultural Night - $540.00

4.      Idelaire - $175.00

5.      French Entertainer - $900.00

6.      Skating Party - September - $100.00

7.      French Camp - $275.00 – CPF to sponsor an event or activity during the camp.

The Movie Night was held on Friday October 26, 2013. Two movies were available for the children to watch and it was a success. Our chapter made just over $300.00 in donations at the door and $200 at the canteen. Canteen supplies cost approximately $100.00, so net profit is $400.00. There were 74 children present.

French Entertainer/French Cultural Event – Carolyn has been in contact with Angela Roy.  Angela is from Vernon and does workshops with children in their schools. She is in Smithers the last week of November and the following week she will be in Hazelton so she has agreed to perform an opening set Dec. 1 for our French Cultural Event - 1  hour performance will cost $200.00 and one night in hotel will be $150.00. 

Bilingual members of the Copper Mountain String Band will head line our afternoon. Carnival games and crepes will be for sale during the intermission. The event will be held at Ecole Jack Cook, from 1-4pm. Carnival games could include a fishpond, bean bag toss, penny toss, a “guess how many” game, etc. 

A planning meeting will be held on Saturday, November 10 at 2 pm at Ecole Jack Cook. 

Treasurer Report:

Linda was away due to a family emergency. Carolyn reported that our chapter has approximately $2500.00 in our gaming account and approximately $4200 in our general account.

Secretary’s Report:

A reminder to everyone that volunteer hours need to be submitted monthly.

Directors Report:

Concours – is being organized by Dina and plans are underway. 

Our chapter still has money to spend from the Book Reserve. 

Dina – requested our chapter consider boosting its scholarship fund in the future. 

We currently have 4 exchange students at Cal right now.  4 students from our district will be going to Quebec in the spring.

Regional French Entertainer’s:

Angela Roy will be in Terrace Jan. 14-18, 2012. She has proposed spending 1 day at Jack Cook and 3 at Ecole Mountainview.  She is willing to do two 45 min. workshops for each class plus a school performance and a community performance.  Charges would include - $200.00 for travel, $150.00 per day for 3 days, the school assembly would be $150.00, a community performance would be $150.00, $8.00 per child for the first workshop, $4.00 for the second workshop for a total of $2600.00.  She has requested a deposit of $750.00 by Nov.1 if our Chapter is interested.  Discussion ensued around this request. 

Motion made to approve in principle Angela Roy working with the students at Ecole Mountainview in January 2013 pending details being worked out with the school prior to us paying an appropriate deposit.  Seconded and Carried. 

Holly Arntzen, Art Response Team – Hazelton CPF is trying to bring this performer in for May 2013 – there is a possibility of our Chapter partnering with the Hazelton Chapter to make this possible.

New Business:

First Aid – Ecole Jack Cook is looking into the possibility of holding a First Aid course for grade 6,7 students in January.

Kitimat CPF would like to hold a Year End Rap Up Party in June at Lakelse Lake.  They are looking for a presenter to participate in this activity (bilingual biologist?) and all students studying French will be invited to attend. 

Roles to fill for 2012/2013 -  to be tabled until next meeting. 

Next Meeting: Tuesday, November 27 at Skeena Middle School, 7pm.

Canadian Parents for French

October 2, 2012

Meeting Minutes

 In attendance:  Kari Eisner, Linda Wilson, Carolyn DeFreitas , Julie Livgard, Dina VonHahn, Stella Peden, Tracey Fell, Chantel Maheux, Maxine Champion .

Call to order:  7:05

Introductions were done.

Minutes from June 21, 2012 meeting approved.

Principals Report - Maxine Champion, Ecole Mountainview

Ecole Mountainview currently has 151 students enrolled and 2 kindergarten classes this year, one with 13 students and one with 14.  They currently have a SA working at the school 10 hours /week. They are also providing learner support time 2 days per week.  This is provided within the classroom mostly.  Recently, a 10% Learning Assistant was also hired.  This is equivalent to 146 min./week or 1 morning per week and this individual will provide reading support to students.

Patrick Witwicki from AFFNO has provided Ecole Montainview students with French movies to rent.  They are available at the office if any students would like to view them.  They simply have to sign them out at the office and are allowed to keep them for 1 week. 

Photo day is on Thursday October 4, 2012.

Students in grades 4-6 will be attending an opera on Wednesday Oct. 3, 2012 at the REM Lee Theatre.   

The school website is up and running.  CPF can have a link to it if we would like.  Both the grade 4/5 and 5/6 classes will have their own blogs.

There is a new music teacher – Fiona Robinson has started at Ecole Mountainview. 

Jeanette Ewald has also replaced Mme. Begin’s position as Fine Arts and Librarian.

President’s Report – see written report, Oct 2, 2012.

Treasurer Report – receipts still need to be submitted for the Skating Party held in September.  The skating party generated 6 new memberships.  Our chapter will see an 80% return on these memberships.  Our chapter received $2000.00 from BC Gaming. 

Secretary Report – a reminder that volunteer hours need to be submitted for July, August and Sept. from all members.

Directors Report:

Dina VonHahn – Returned EMV’s plaque with the recipients of the 2011/2012 “Prix de L’Ambassadeur de L’Immersion Francause” award engaved on it.  Discussion around creating a similar award for students in Jack Cook and Skeena. 

Dina also reported that there were 5 students who graduated from French Immersion this year.  Two students qualified for a scholarship from CPF, one received $900.00 and one received $500.00.

Motion made to provide Stella Pedan with an honorarium of $25.00 for scrapbooking supplies to supplement her current stock.  Motion S/C.  Thank you Stella for all your hard work.      

Julie Livgard, Welcome Back Skating Party – This year apples and oranges were provided at the skating party and just over $200.00 was spent.

New Business:

A motion was made to purchase a $100.00 gift certificate (maximum) to be offered as a thank you to Mme. Begin in recognition of her work on the Bonhomme costume.  Motion s/c.  Stella offered to make a Thank You card and Carolyn has agreed to deliver it to Mme. Begin within the next week.

Vice President – Our chapter must have one in order to maintain our status as an active chapter.  Linda has agreed to stand in as Vice President/Treasurer for now.

Review of Chapter Events:

Welcome Back Skating Party - complete.

October 2012 – The membership drive is finished at the end of October.  Therefore, it was suggested that a family movie night at EMV be held.  CPF members would be free, a nominal fee would be charged for non-members.  Air popcorn and water could be provided.  Parents will be required to attend with their children.  Discussion around having a CPF slideshow during intermission to encourage membership.  A backpack notice sent home will also include a membership form attached to the back of it.  EMV’s Movie Night will be held on the Friday Oct.26, 2012.  Everyone is welcome to come in pajama’s!  There will be gym mats, benches and chairs to sit on and a door prize draw for new members.  Further plans for the movie night were discussed.  Julie and Carolyn have agreed to plan this event. 

November  2012 -  CPF would like to hold some sort of Cultural Night in November.  Various ideas were discussed.  The possibility of approaching Skeena Diversity about a French culture night was brought up – brainstorming with them, Ecole Jack Cook and possibly the Metis Fiddlers was suggested.

December 2012 – Discussion around holding a Teacher Appreciation Night although this could also be held in January or February 2013.  Decision to be made regarding this at a later date. 

March 2013 – Cabane a Sucre – The Terrace Chapter will once again be partnering with the Kitimat Chapter and the plan is to hold it at the Nordic Cross Country Ski Club again.  Carolyn is planning to meet with the the Kitimat Chapter in the near future regarding the planning for this.  They are also looking into providing dog sled rides.

March 2013 – Concours will be hosted in Terrace this year.  Dina is looking into the possibility of holding it on Saturday March 9.  Dina to contact Caledonia Sr. Sec. and/or Skeena about booking the lecture theatre for this date.  Dina has agreed to plan this.

May 2013 – The possibility of holding another garage sale was suggested. Last year we made $350.00.  Tabled for further discussion.

July and August 2013 – Summer Reading Club – We hope to continue the French Summer Reading Club again next year. 

Book reserve money remains for Skeena ($800), Caledonia (<$300), and the Terrace Public Library (approx. $350). $800 book reserve money has not yet been designated, and could be offered on a first come first serve basis, to either Skeena, for CORE French resources, or the TPL for French collection shelving.

French Summer Camp 2013 – The French Summer Camp that was offered this summer went very well and hopefully the City of Terrace will hold one again in 2013.  CPF would like to be involved and assist with this as well.

In all events, CPF needs to try to connect the older French Immersion students with the younger FI students. 

CPF Conference in Prince George – Carolyn and Linda attended this conference last weekend.  Both women reported the conference was very informative and they were able to network with many other Chapters in the NW Region.  One of the suggestions that came was a speaker series about how parents can help their children in FI.  Various topics could include “Continuing French Beyond 3:00” or “How to Take it Beyond Computers”.  The speaker series would be an evening session so that parents could attend.  Maxine has agreed to discuss this idea with the teachers to see if any of them would be willing to assist with this.  This may be a project Maxine is able to deliver for us sometime in the new year.

Roles to be filled for 2012/2013 - to be discussed at next meeting.

Next Meeting – Monday Oct.29^th at Ecole Jack Cook, 7pm.

Canadian Parents for French

June 21, 2012

Meeting Minutes

In attendance:  Kari Eisner, Linda Wilson, Carolyn DeFreitas , Julie Livgard, Emily Suderman .

Call to order: 7:15

Welcome new members and brief discussion around CPF’s mandate.

Minutes of last meeting – approved and seconded.

President’s Report :

Welcomed new executive.

The BC Gaming application was filed, $2,500 was requested.

The Kindergarten orientation went well.  There were 3 different sessions and a representative from CPF gave a short presentation at each of them.  Currently, there are 29 children registered for Sept.2012

Carolyn has spoken to Suzanne Dorais and her daughter as well as Mme. Bégin about redoing the Bonhomme costume.    Mme. Bégin has agreed to take on a student helper (Suzanne’s daughter, a grade 9 French Immersion student) to redo the Bonhomme costume over the summer.

The arena cannot be booked until the beginning of August.  Linda has agreed to book the arena in August for the Welcome Back Skating Party on Sept. 23/12.

Renee Sevret from Jack Cook, will be offering French language classes again starting in Sept. 2012.

Terrace Parks and Rec.  are holding a French summer camp at the beginning of July.  They currently have 21 children registered with 5 + on the wait list.  It will be held at Jack Cook School.  In support of the camp, at the end of the week CPF will be presenting  the children with a certificate of completion, a CPF  application form and a gift certificate for Chills.

Sociocultural Grants – our chapter is now able to apply for a sociocultural grant retroactively for Cabane A Sucre and Marc Tardiff the Magician. 

A backpack notice home will be sent home before the end of the school year thanking parents for their help this year, reminding them of the summer reading book club, the French activities at the library and of the Welcome Back Skating Party in the fall. 

Treasurer’s Report:

The gaming account currently has $965.77.  There has been no movement with this account during the month of June.  There is $2963.92 in the general account.  We received payment for a Socio Cultural Grant for the Family Dance of $469.73.

Secretary’s Report : Our chapter is up to date with all of the reports required by CPF.  Both the Chapter Information Form and the Chapter Annual Summary of Activities were completed and submitted this month as well as the AGM minutes and the necessary financial documentation. 

Director’s Report:

Garage Sale – Julie reported that the garage sale raised $315.00, on target for the amount we were hoping to raise.  Overall, it went well although there were many items leftover.  The following suggestions were made for next year:

·        Send a notice home in the children’s back pack the day before

·        Set up the garage sale closer to the road, if weather allows

·        Open the garage sale to CPF families the night prior to opening the sale to the public

Grad Report – Dina’s report was discussed.  Shannon Walker organized a grad luncheon for the Caledonia graduates on June 12, 2012 at Flavors (Cafenara). She also hosted a luncheon for the Skeena grads at her house where the kids where Dina presented their sweatshirts from CPF. Dina is giving out 2 CPF Grade 12 awards this evening.

New Business

CPF Conference - The CPF BC &Yukon Branch AGM is being held in Ottawa this year on Oct.17-19, 2012.  The cost for attending is $750.00, with a $250.00 rebate from CPF, our cost then $500.00.  Discussion ensued around the pro’s and con’s of attending the conference.  The decision was made by the members to forgo the conference this year due to the high cost and the time away required.

Summer Reading Club – Dina and Carolyn will be adding gift certificates for Chills to the books and prizes that the children in the Summer Reading Club can win.  Discussion around possible prizes for the future.  The library is planning to hold a few French activities this summer as well. 

Welcome Back Skating Party – Kari and Julie have agreed to help organize this activity.  Dina will work the registration/membership table and coordinate teen volunteers. Flo will be asked to run the canteen. Others will fill in as needed.

Fall Fundraiser - The suggestion of a Fall Fundraiser to be held in November was raised.  This would replace the Family Dance that was held in years past.  It could include a dinner, catered by NWCC Culinary Arts Program, fair-like games and an Usborne book fair. The event location could be other than the EMV gym.

Information/Resource Guide - The suggestion was made to have a “Welcome Wagon Resource Guide” for parents.  This would be a small booklet with suggestions of helpful websites for French/English translation, French pronunciation guide, basic verbs, glossary of school terms (eg: NID), etc.  Suggestions can be passed along to Carolyn.  

French Entertainers – There is money for this, (Socio Cultural Grants), so if anyone has any suggestions they are welcome to bring them forward.

Teacher Appreciation Event –This is usually held in December.  Carolyn will approach Flo to see if she is willing to organize this again next year.

Cabane A Sucre – Carolyn and Julie have agreed to organize this next year. The suggestion was made to try to encourage high school students to assist with this and similar activities throughout the year.

Concours –This will be held in April 2013 and it is Terrace’s turn to host this event.  Dina has volunteered to organize this and Emily is willing to help her.  Some discussion whether Concours could be part of the Pacific Northwest Music Festival.

Early Years Fair – Will recruit volunteers for this closer to the date.

Garage Sale – Julie and Linda have agreed to volunteer for this.  It will likely be held in May 2013.

Movie Night - The suggestion was made to have a Movie Night in the fall with popcorn.

Any new suggestions for fundraisers and activities are welcome. 

 Social Media – currently our Chapter has a blog which is not well used.  Linda is willing to set up a CPF Facebook page for our Chapter.  Discussion around the pro’s and con’s of using Facebook in particular the use of photo’s.  Discussion to continue at next meeting. 

Meeting Dates and Locations: 

Our meetings will continue to be the 4^th Tuesday of every month except for the first meeting of the year which will be held on Sept. 11, 2012 – this will be a Skating Planning Party.  We will continue to rotate our meetings around to each school.  Our next CPF General Meeting will be held on Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 at Ecole Mountainview  - 7:00 pm.

Canadian Parents for French

Annual General Meeting, May 22, 2012

Meeting Minutes

In attendance:  Dina Von Hahn, Kari Eisner, Terri Bowles, Flo Sheppard, Linda Wilson, Carolyn DeFreitas , Maxine Champion, Julie Livgard, Suzanne Dorais.

Call to order: 7:10

President’s Report – distributed.  Dina passed around the hoodie that will be presented to the Skeena students who are now going into Cal as well as the new Grad pins for everyone to see. 

Thank you cards given to the leaving executive.

M/S/C to adopt the President’s Report.

Treasurer’s Report – financial report was distributed and discussed.  M/S/C to approve the 2011-2012 financial statements.

Secretary’s Report – Outline of the paperwork required for the end of the year reporting and volunteer hours were requested. 

Elections held:

President - Carolyn DeFreitas

Vice President – currently unfilled.

Treasurer – Linda Wilson

Secretary – Kari Eisner will remain as secretary for another year.

Directors – Julie, Dina and Flo have agreed to be Directors at large for CPF Terrace Chapter.

Budget for 2012-2013 – Distributed and discussed. M/S/C to adopt the 2012-2013 budget as presented.

OLD BUSINESS:

Cheques for Idelaire, Book Reserve, Summer Reading Club, A2Z, Office Supplies signed.

Garage Sale – Is being held this Saturday at Ecole Mountainview.  In need of volunteers and trucks to assist.  Garage sale items will be accepted on Friday from 3 – 6:30.

NEW BUSINESS:

Signing Authority – M/S/C  to remove Terri Bowles and Dina Von Hahn from signing authority and to add Carolyn DeFretias and Linda Wilson. 

Gaming Application – Dina and Josianne to complete the gaming application for the 2012/2013 year by the May 31, 2012 deadline.

CPF – BC Reporting – Annual Summary, forms will need to be completed and submitted in June.

Kindergarten Orientation – 3 different orientation sessions.  31 students registered for K and they will have 3 different sessions with 10 students each.  CPF is invited to attend these sessions and Carolyn and Linda will try to attend and distribute pamphlets to the parents.  To be held on Friday - June 8.

Caledonia Grad Luncheon – Shannon Murdoch and Richard Claire usually organize this however, due to job action may not be able to organize it.  Dina to follow up on this. 

Advertising – will be an expense for the ad in the paper congratulating the FI grads of 2012 and for the engraving of the grad pins.  Scholarship awards – June 21 – Dina to attend.

Ecole Mountainview award – need a volunteer to present the award.  Terri volunteered and we will need to get it engraved afterwards. Awards ceremony to be held on June 26, 9:00 am.

An award will be established for Jack Cook and Skeena next year. 

Skating Party – the arena will need to be booked at the end of August.  Carolyn to follow up on this. 

Principal’s Report – Upcoming Events.  June 26 is the last day of class for students.  Report cards on June 25.  Sports Day June 15,Kindergarten Orientation is on June 8, June 22 grade 6 and 7 will visit Skeena.  No track and field.  Job action is putting a damper on field trips.  They need to be back here by 12:00 for lunch.  Kitimat field trip to the swimming pool will likely be cancelled because of this. 

Seven classes for the fall, K to 6.  Staffing is known but not who is teaching which grade(s). 

Next Meeting:  Thursday, June 21 - 7 pm at Cafenara. MEETING ADJOURNED 8:50 P.M.