2008/09Year in Review

Sheridan School Council

Sheridan Public School ♦ 1555 Lancaster Drive ♦ Oakville, ON ♦ 905-845-3925 ♦ http://she.hdsb.ca

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2008/09 Year in Review

2008/09 Year in Review

The Sheridan School Council met 10 times during the 2008/09 school year. The purpose of these meetings was to attend the Principal's update, adopt school and teacher wish lists, discuss/review the school effectiveness plan, review Treasurer's report, table parent concerns as well as discuss upcoming activities and events. The outcome of these meetings are displayed on this page. Thank you very much to all 2008/2009 Sheridan council members for their hard work, commitment and contributions to the students of Sheridan Public School.

Voting Members: Karen Curtis, Danielle Ferguson, Anne Goeden, Val Keating, Robert McGeachy, Camilla Nielsen, Jill Sprawson, Sarah Stronach

Executive Council: Taye Newman, Chair ♦ Chantal Ingram, Vice-Chair ♦ Hanlie Jacobs, Treasurer ♦ Sherri Robertson, Secretary ♦ Malerie Borbath, Principal

School Council purchased leveled readers for all grades. These readers were used in the school wide Home Reading program, the All Star Reading program, as well as in school literacy programs.
Literacy	Council supported the Home Reading program by purchasing prizes for the monthly home reading winners.

Science and Social Science

This year, School Council was delighted to fulfill teacher's wish lists for Science and Social Science of materials such as: magnets, seeds, butterflies, soil, flower model, pulley/gears, batteries, spring scales, microscopes, models of heart, eye, brain, ear, eye and lung, maps as well as Scientists in the School.

Numeracy

School Council replenished classroom sets of math manipulative's.

School Council funded the purchase of all grade 3, 4 and 5 students Math homework books. Funds have been committed to also provide homework books to students in the 2009/2010 school year.

Music

School Council supported the Music program with the purchase of musical instruments, funded the music for the December Holiday Program, contributed to Arts Nights and funded a grade 4/5 Hip Hop Workshop.

Collectively, student artwork is now installed on the school fence where we hope it will remain intact to beautify the grounds for years to come.

The Arts

School Council was delighted to fund Conservation Halton's Stream of Dreams program for all Sheridan students.

This program was a perfect fit for Sheridan because it supported both the Eco School effort and Council's desire to provide unique art opportunities for Sheridan students.

Representatives from Conservation Halton taught students about our local watershed. Students then were provided with an opportunity to demonstrate their new learning by painting a wooden fish, representative of a species of fish that lives in the area.

Educational Assemblies
We provided one educational assembly each term for Sheridan students.
Term 1: John Parks, The Power of Persistence
Term 2: Dick Smith, Caribbean Cruise
Term 3: Michael Mitchell, A Celebration of Canada

Angel Fund

During the 2008/09 school year, the School Council Angel fund provided the following:

♦ Christmas gifts for the children of one Sheridan Family
♦ helped some students in need of assistance purchase holiday gifts for their families at the Holiday Gift Bazaar
♦ funding for pizza lunch for one Sheridan student.
♦ funding for 2 students to participate in the Girls on the Run program.

Athletics
School Council was pleased to fund team jerseys used by both the Sheridan Cross Country and the Sheridan Track teams. Go Sharks!

Recess Materials

Council helped to fund the painting of games on the black top, provided outdoor play equipment and games for indoor recess. Council also coordinated the funding and purchase of two climbers for the kindergarten play area.

School Websites

We created and launched a new Council website as well as funded technical costs to launch an updated Sheridan School site.

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