March 20, 2013 - St Joan of Arc Catholic High School

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT’S PRESENTATION: ALESSANDRA CASCHERA ‣ Alessandra Caschera touched on the subject of how social media and technology can prove to have a positive use in our classrooms: Twitter We are the first school to offer this service which is very informative keeping the students connected with the school 675 followers and 2,500 tweets with works out to 7 per day It is also a feed for all the announcements happening at our school this can be goggled Edmodo Program like Facebook which can be accessed by everyone Teachers can post notes regarding their class and if anything is expected by the students e.g. homework, assignments Reading Ahead Program Use the best of the web to improve reading and writing for students This was implemented in September 2011 to the Grade 10 Applied students and great for OSSLT program has increased success rate No After-school programs for the learning strategies Room 210 Has implemented 1 computer per student – fully equipped with printer, headphones and SmartBoard Math has 5 SmartBoards and English has 3 SmartBoards Cafeteria Has LCD projector which runs CP24 and it runs the twitter messages from the school on the board as well – also another Monitor that does the same located in the entrance way in front of the Library – not all the teachers are fully using this too – slowly in more use 5 Year Plan This years focus LCD with laptops, Guidance, Religion, Canada & World Studies laptops to be purchased with the allocated Council funding Next school year attendance computer to be put into each classroom so the kids can sign in COMMITTEE’S REPORT: DANNY SCENNA ‣ Newsletter Currently on the school’s Website Michele Bray is working on the April newsletter Please send any pictures or information that you would like posted in the newsletter to Michele Bray June will be the final newsletter ‣ Glamour Night Regrets - no reporting ‣ Catholicity Meeting Next meeting - April 4 th So far the speaker has been selected Antonella Rubino to set up choir and guitarist to perform Finalization to be done in April’s meeting ‣ Faith Committee Regrets – no reporting SPEAKER FOR NEXT MEETING – CAMH REPRESENTATIVE
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT: ANTONELLA RUBINO ‣ Missions of the Poor Charity Basketball Game Raised $1,600.00 Game of basketball students verses the police ‣ Year Of Faith Continue to focus on Saint Joan of Arc, our Patron Saint Project for this year to complete Station of The Cross in the Chapel ‣ April 11, 2013 – OSSLT special schedule – parents letter will forthcoming – graduation requirements must pass this test in order to graduate – we will continue to focus on applied learners ‣ May 6, 2013 - Numeracy P.A. Day Staff focus on “Talking about Math” ‣ June 10, 2013 – Graduation Mass at 7:00 p.m. For Grade 12 students at St. David’s Church Invitation to all parents of graduating students ‣ Safe and Caring Schools Uniforms – will be mandatory that the students wear the pants that have the embroidered Saint Joan of Arc initials near knee. Parents can bring current un-initialed pants to Halpern’s to be embroidered free of charge between June and August 2013 Zero tolerance come September 2013 ‣ Parent Teacher Interviews NEW – On-line signup the second week of April – instruction sheet to go out to all parents – interviews are 5 minute intervals ‣ Course Selection for 2013 – 2014 School Year Verification sheets distributed in April – this allows students to verify the courses they have chosen ‣ Registration number for September 2013 1,550 students enrolled, (1,575 projected) COMMUNITY SCHOOL PROFILE DANNY SCENNA ‣ Remaining time was allocated to completing the Community School Profile as a group ‣ Antonella Rubino dismissed herself so that the Catholic School Council could complete it for submission to the Board by March 28, 2013 MEETING ADJOURNED NEXT MEETING APRIL 17, 2013
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