Tuesday November 26, 2019

Mandatory Grad and Parent meeting

BSS Auditorium – 7:04pm start

Vice Principal – Trish Cathrine

• Announcements
• Report cards were issued last week – if you don't have them yet from your student, ask them or email Trish for a copy
• Reminder – there are no provincial assessments this year for grads
• CLC – Career Life Connection
• Requirement for all grads to complete in order to graduate
• Attendance is mandatory weekly on Fridays
• Ballenas Website
• For any Graduation information, click on the "graduation" tab for more information
• Grad transitions work is due on January 10, 2020 – this deadline is FAST approaching
• Check the website for all grad timelines

• Intros of the Parents Grad Executive Council
• Kim and Deb – co-chairs
• Darlene – food, gifts and prizes
• Barb – treasurer
• Kat and Suzanne – entertainment
• Brie – fundraising
• Kiran – adult/parent's dance
• Regrets – Mel- communications and Anissa- Fashion Show

Grad Executive Council – Kim and Deb

Kim reviewed the following info:

• Grad Fees - $100 + $100 (at this time if we get enough fundraising completed)
• Reviewed budget and revenue from last year (see attachment)
• Reinforced we need to fundraise $25000 this year for the Grad and Prom events – we need parents to help
• 2 fundraisers already completed this year – we could have made WAY more money here. We need parents support going forward
• Poinsettias – pickup on Thursday November 28^th – 3pm
• 24 families participated this year
• Cheese – date to be communicated        
• 19 families participated this year

• Upcoming fundraisers
• Grads are doing a bottle sort this Saturday at Rathtrevor Beach – please have any grads join and help out
• January 4^th – Bottle drive at the school, meat draws at the French Creek Pub dates TBA, activity book (spring), March 7^th – Adult Dance, April 18^th Grad Fashion Show
• When purchasing any corsages and boutonnieres for grads, order through Thrifty Foods as they will give the grad committee back 50% of the cost in the form of gift cards so we can purchase snacks for the Prom/Grad event
• Sponsorships letters have been done up for cash donations – parents, please come see Brie for the letters if you can support or know companies who can support the grad

Next meetings

• Wednesday November 27^th -7pm – Decorating Committee meeting
• Thursday December 5^th – 7pm – Entertainment Committee meeting

Meeting adjourned at 7:37pm

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