Rossville School SCC Meeting Minutes

Present: Julia Watton, Kristina Gutenberg, Marguerite D, Lisa Rechenmacher, Nova Ferguson, Melinda Ells, Andy Hubenig Crystal Klassen, Sheilby Klein.

Lisa Rechenmacher opened the meeting at 5:47pm

Guests: Michele Whitfield.

Review minutes of last meeting: May 11, Zoom call was informative from Crystal wrapping up the year with reports and reading goals for the coming school year. Awards and farewells were streamed over Facebook live. AGM was cancelled and date undetermined.

Additions to the Agenda: N/A

Correspondence: From Michele W, consisted of her plethora of meetings and conversations with other board members on keeping our schools safe during the spike in Covid numbers in our area. She is available by email and phone.

Treasurer’s Report – Grant Account: $939.31

Fundraising Acct: $3,274.85

Outstanding Bills to pay: Awards day check to be adjusted and resigned to Crystal.K
Andy H, for Panago pizza, Hot lunch.

Crystal Klassen Principal’s Report to the SCC September 2021

We are excited to have parents and others back in our school. We do ask that visitors sign in when they come to the school. Although we will continue to post student work on the front doors as a way for the community to see what we are doing in school.

We have started the year off with a decrease in our enrollment this year. We currently have 24 students; 4 in kindergarten, 11 in grades 1 to 3 and 9 in grades 4 to 7. Due to some of our students leaving and transferring to other schools we now have a .75 EA (covered by Joleen 0.5 and Jennifer 0.25) for the year. We still have 2 teachers on staff. Our caretaking hours are 5.5 hours a day which is a slight decrease but more than covers the need for our increased cleaning and sanitizing due to Covid.

Classes are going well, and we are happy to have the students back at school. The division has approved nutrition, which means you will be able to provide home cooked hot lunches unless something changes from there. We are looking at bring back the milk program again but want to check to see whether on not we will have parents and students interested in the program. I will be asking the Grade 5 and 6 students to pass out the milk if we go ahead. We are still eating in our classrooms as this allows students to be without their masks. If we move into the lunchroom students will need to put their masks on once they are done eating. All students and staff are wearing their masks in the common areas. Teachers and staff who are working closely with students are strongly encouraged to wear their masks.

We will be updating our Level 4 plan for this year in case there is a need for students to work from home. Once it is updated, we will be sharing it with parents through the Facebook page as well as posting it on the school website. I encourage parents to keep their child home if they are sick or running a fever. It amazed me that we made it through last year with few students being sick.

The division has approved field trips for this year. At this time, we haven’t made any plans but will be looking into what we can do with out students. I would like to stay within our area at least for the first one. We are not able to go to the other small schools currently as students in elementary are to maintain their cohorts.

Our school goal will be looking at reading comprehension through how we answer the questions not just in our ELA classes but throughout all our classes. This will include encouraging students to write their answers in complete sentences by rephrasing the question with the answer.

We will continue to use IXL, Raz-Kids, Prodigy and Math Seeds with our students. The division is helping us purchase IXL this year as they can get us a better deal than each school going on their own. Raz-Kids and Math Seeds (which is new) are mainly used by the Grade 1 to 3 students. We will continue to use Seesaw as a way for students to show their learning and as way to communicate with the teachers. Parents can message the teachers through Seesaw. I will continue to be available through email, calls to the school and on my cell phone.

This year the division is offering several different Division led PD opportunities for staff. Shelby will be away for 4 days to take part in these opportunities. She will be attending PD on the DRA, Phonological Awareness, Math Games and a Beginning Teachers Workshop.

This year our Educational Psychologist, Tannis Lehman has decided to spend 4 days throughout the year working from our school. Her first day at Rossville will be October 14th.

We will be doing One Book Three Schools again this year. The book we selected is The Witches by Roald Dahl. The book will be sent home to each family on September 28th

Upcoming Events

September 14 – Parent Open House

September 15 – Picture Day

September 24 – Terry Fox Walk

September 27 – PD for teachers only

September 30 – Orange Shirt Day – Reconciliation

Old Business:
- ESSP Goals: Focused Students reading Comprehension. The importance that this carries over into other classes.

- Crystal K, will email out last years to the SCC

New Business:

- Hot Lunch come Sept. Will be on a K-Day, 17th. Members are quardiating A spaghetti and Meat Ball Casserole.

- Welcome back night the teachers will provide cookies and coffee for parents and students attending.
Will start @630pm in the common area.

- Kindergarten gifts were purchased by Joleen Scheible,SCC will reimburse her once receipts are submitted to Kristina.
- Fowl Supper Sept.26th/2021 was unanimously voted to be cancelled for the safety in our community.

- Goose Fest Parade, if it is to happen the option of silly sting not candy to be thrown was brought up by Nova Ferguson, teachers will take into consideration. All members agree candy should not be purchased, but the importance to promote Coleville Rossville school in the parade is important.
- Halloween dance will be in the afternoon and students from Rossville. Hot lunch could be made this day.

- SCC budget plan and goals to wards why we should fundraise for and purchase for the students. More out door equipment, such as games for the older students was mentioned their interested in such things. Large play structure equipment another option to look into. As well as a healthy snack system or program.

- Family Engagement is a struggle to timing and commitment, for our SCC to make it easier for the families to join and enjoy things within the school with their children is important and needs to be always addressed at out meetings. Ideas such as, skills night, or a book in our community.

- Bottle drive this fall will be offered to the Playschool, with the Spring bottle drive circling back to the Rossville school. Sharing two a year with in our community.

- AGM will be held in April 2022.
- Reminder from Lisa to Nova, that out Meeting Minuets to be emailed out each month. As well confirm with Kristina Financial statement is complete or close to being so.

Next Meeting: October 18/2021 @5:45pm

Lisa Rechenmacher closes the meeting at: 7:09pm