Please come out to the next PAC Meeting where  Linda O’Reilly from ONE to ONE Literacy Society will be sharing reading tips with families (see flyer below).  

ALL FAMILIES ARE WELCOME!

CHILDCARE IS PROVIDED

Please RSVP to Lisa at mtp.pac@gmail.com 

or 

by returning the sheet sent home with your child by Friday May 14th.

 

 

 

Reading Partners

PAC Meeting

 

 

 

Encouraging your children to grow up loving reading is the best gift you can give them and has been linked to early school success. You can also have great fun in the process. Join Linda O’Reilly to learn reading tips for parents/guardians to help their children become successful readers.

 

 

Mt. Pleasant School

Library

Tuesday, May 18^th 2010

6:30-7:30

 

Linda O’Reilly is passionate about children and literacy. She currently works with ONE TO ONE Literacy Society.

 

 

________________________________________________________________

 

I plan to attend the presentation with Linda O’Reilly on Tuesday, May 18^th 2010.

 

Name: __________________________________________________________

(Please return this form to your child’s teacher by Friday, May14th.

 

Email: (please print clearly) ______________________________________

 

Childcare is available:  □  Yes  # of children ________________

A quick update about tonight’s budget meeting.

As you may have heard, the board has postponed the final budget meeting for two months. In addition, the board chair announced today the band and strings programs will not be cut.

Parents are still encouraged to come out to the meeting tonight. Staffing decisions will have to be made and all schools will be affected. A show of support is greatly needed! The meeting is in the main boardroom at the VSB office at 7:00pm.

Thank you!

to all the parents who came out to our April PAC Meeting and the Board of Education Budget meeting that immediately followed.

A reminder: PAC meetings are for ALL parents and caregivers. Please come out and find out what is happening at Mount Pleasant!

The next PAC meeting is scheduled for May 18th.

For those of you interested in advocacy and/or who just want to get vocal about the cuts, there will be a student organized and led rally at the Board of Education on Friday. Please refer to the post below for more information.

Rally for Strong Education in the Vancouver School District

Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Location: Vancouver School Board
Street: 1580 W Broadway, cross-street is Fir St.
City/Town: Vancouver, BC
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FUNDING FOR OUR FUTURE:

Next year, the Vancouver School Board faces an $18.12 million budget shortfall. This will affect all students and teachers in this district. Specifically, specialty or alternate programs and systems are proposed to suffer the most.

These include:
1. ESL programs
2. Programs promoting diversity (Race relations programs and PRIDE)
3. Programs for students with special needs (including the GOLD program, and many outreach programs for disadvantaged kids and youth)
4. String and band programs (including cutting all funding for any elementary school band programs)
5. Enriched education programs (i.e. PW Mini School, PG Mini School, etc.)

There will be multiple teacher lay offs, and closure of certain schools has been proposed. Over the past eight years alone, the VSB has made a total of $51 million in cost reductions. The cuts cannot continue forever.

For more information, go to www.vsb.bc.ca

At 2:30 this Friday, there will be a peaceful, student organized rally meeting outside the VSB. From there, we will move to the Minister of Education Constituency office (1245 West Broadway) in order to call for further funding for our education.

This rally is meant to show our support for our education and our belief that more funding is needed in order to have the best education and future we can. Feel free to make polite placards, with slogans such as Funding for our Future, or Stop Education Cuts. Members of the Prince of Wales, and hopefully the Byng Arts, band will also be playing to give a message that children appreciate these music programs.

NEW: VANCOUVER'S INNER CITY MARCH FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION

JOIN US

as we speak to

the Vancouver School Board's Trustees

at the 7pm public consultation meeting

located at Mount Pleasant Elementary School.



MARCH gathers at:

Grandview/?Uuqinak'uuh

Elementary School Front Doors

2055 Woodland Drive, Vancouver



MARCH starts at:

6:00pm, Tuesday April 20

MARCH at 6:15pm



MARCH route:

We will be MARCHING along

East Broadway to Mount Pleasant Elementary School

2300 Guelph Street



Media Contact:

Leona Antoine

Parent at Grandview/?Uuqinak'uuh

Parent Advisory Committee member (PAC)

778-846-4928

Respond to Education Cuts!

Tuesday, April 20th

3:30pm

Broadway at Granville St

walking, then arriving at

4:00pm Office of the Minister of Education
1245 West Broadway
(2 blocks east of Granville)

Schools participating in Shaughnessy Elementary’s
postcard campaign are encouraged to come to deliver
their postcards to Minister MacDiarmid

Download postcard at: shaughnessy.vsb.bc.ca/PDFDocuments/Budget_postcard.pdf

file courtesy of: http://www.blogger.com/www.gordonelementary.ca