School Council Minutes - May 4, 2026

SPS School Council Meeting Minutes

May 4, 2026

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Executive	Chair - Crystal Armstrong Vice Chair - Shuchita Singh Secretary - Treasurer - Jen Chaggares
Attendees	Crystal Armstrong, Aseel Ahmad, Shuchita Singh, Lindsay Weidelich, Nitin Vaswani, Zoe Graham, Darlene Nagy(staff), Sarah Anderson (P), Bryana Lloyd (VP)
Regrets	Adrienne Ristevski, Jen Chaggares
Land Acknowledgement	We affirm that we are all treaty people and acknowledge that the York Region District School Board is located on the lands of two treaties. These treaties are signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the First Nations of the Williams Treaties who are: the Mississaugas of Alderville, Curve Lake, Hiawatha, Scugog Island; and the Chippewas of Beausoleil, Rama, and Georgina Island our closest neighbour and partner in education. To honour this agreement we will take up our responsibility to be respectful of their traditions, knowledges and inherent rights as sovereign nations. We will respect their relationship with these lands and recognize that our connection to this land is through the continued relationship with these First Nations, and we acknowledge our shared responsibility to respect and care for the land and waters for future generations.
Approval of Previous Minutes	School Council Minutes March 30, 2026
	Items	Notes	Next Steps
School Report	Grade 8 Grad Photos
	Ice Cream Party, Staff Serenade, Gym for you and 5 Friends from Dance-a-thon
	Jr. Girls and Boys Basketball
	Earth Rangers Presentation
	STEAM Night	Feedback from stickie notes, shared below
	Earth Day Community Clean-up
	EcoSchools Trip
	Scholastic Book Fair
	Arts2Go
	UPCOMING EVENTS
	Pirate Popsicle Day, Double Recess Day, Walk the Plank from Dance-a-thon
	Rob Malo Presentation
	Farm Field Trips
	Track and Field
	EQAO
	Fun Fair
	ROC Trips
	Primary Play Day
	Grade 8 Grad
	Mural in gym wall	-students will be voting or their favourite phrase at our next Good News Assembly
	Jump pits	-our Jump Pit for Track and Field is now installed
	Good News Assemblies	-students making news reports of events around the school
Treasurer’s Report	Finance summary This year, the school council has raised approximately $40000. We have spent almost $25000 on technology, field trips, scientists in the school, X-movement, grade 8 grad, buses, and angel fund. (We started the year with $14295 in our account). As of May 4, 2026, the school council currently has $35846.27 in the combined general, pizza, and sub funds. However, we still need to pay for the pizza and subs for the rest of the year. Everything else we had budgeted for, except the teacher's wish list of $2000, has come out of the account.	Teacher Requests 2 cameras and 5 game kits	-as SC is currently $7000 under budget, both items approved (2 cameras, 5 kits) -if clarification is required, 1 camera and 2 kits is approved -clarification provided that surplus is about $2000, therefore purchases deferred to fall of 2026
	Basketball Poles	PO Created, approved with expected completion of Sept 2026
School Improvement Report
Community Building Report		What do you want to see more of at SPS? (collected at STEAM Night) -more bike racks -self-regulation exercises (IDT or PTOT) -clubs - Jr soccer, baseball, hockey, dance, coding, spoken poetry, sewing class, -after school French, Art and Music classes -more art on the walls	-no YREAA Jr soccer (only Intermediate) -check on baseball -sewing (existing program that comes to schools)
Fundraising	Fun Fair	-cost of meals hot dog $4, hamburger $6, drink $1, chips $1 Combos are hot dog $6, hamburger $7 Freezies $1 -one ticket = $1.00 -ticket sales 10 ticket $10; 22 tickets for $20; 60 tickets for $50 -game bracelet for all games -big games - plinko, basketball net, coconut shy, duck pick, peanut dip, cornhole, ring toss, giant checkers (students running games only) -need prizes for duck pick and peanut dip (do we do tickets as prizes) -face painting, tattoos and bracelet-making (separate from games bracelet) -slime the Admin -can only buy tickets at Ticket table, no where else -separate email for Fun Fair, can we do a paper copy -follow-up meeting May 19th @6pm	-visiting the 7s and 8s tomorrow for the games (Bryana and Sarah) -announcements out this week, starting auditions May 11 (Darlene) -need student volunteers and staff volunteers -schedule required (Crystal) -SCOL - indicate how many hot dogs and hamburgers online -send out Google link as part of Fun Fair info -Angel Fund to support any in need
Other Business
Next Meeting	Fall 2026