Brentwood Elementary School

SCHOOL ADVISORY COUNCIL

March 8, 2007

 

Minutes from Meeting

 

 

The meeting was called to order at 7:40 a.m.

 

Attendees:

In attendance were Michelle Henderson (principal), Keith Thompson (chair and teacher representative), Britt Galipault (secretary and parent representative), Julie Lopez (parent representative), Harriet Cowan (teacher representative), and Rita Lopez (student representative).

 

Agenda:

 

  1. Approval of Minutes

 

The minutes from the February 8 meeting were read and approved.

 

  1. Compact

 

We will wait to promulgate our compact until the beginning of next school year as it is so late in the current school year.  The compact is an agreement between parents, students, and teachers, setting forth the responsibilities of each.  Copies of the compact will be distributed in classrooms on Meet the Teacher Night.  Those compacts not returned on Meet the Teacher Night will be sent home with students the first week of school to be signed and returned.

 

  1. Specials & Lunch

 

SDMT met last week and set next year’s lunch and specials times.  The SDMT also established two sample rotations for specials.  One assumes that we are able to fund 6 specials teachers;  the other assumes we can only fund 5.  The team will now schedule the school day around the 90 minute reading block, the one hour math block for some grades, and the lunch and specials schedule.  Michelle Henderson and Matt Avery will then develop the school’s master calendar based on the teachers’ preferences.  The budget for next year should be available on April 18 and Mrs. Henderson should be able to present it to SAC and SDMT on Monday, April 23.

 

 

  1. Dates for Next Year

 

Calendar dates set for the 2007 – 2008 school year are as follows:

 

                                          i.    First day for teachers:  August 13, 2007

                                        ii.    Meet the Teacher Night:  August 16, 2007.  The PTO ice cream social will be from 6:00 to 7:00 and teachers will be in their classrooms from 7:00 to 8:00.

                                       iii.    First day for students:  August 20, 2007

                                       iv.    5th Grade Marinelab trip:  October 24 – 26, 2007

                                        v.    Open House:  November 15, 2007

                                       vi.    Fun Run:  March 28, 2008 (this is the Friday before Spring Break)

                                      vii.    Spring Fling:  May 2, 2008

                                    viii.    Last day for students:  May 30, 2008

 

At our next meeting we will discuss a schedule for holding schoolwide parent conferences around the end of the first quarter.

 

Next year we plan to schedule a family math night and a family science night.  Dates for these nights will follow.  The family science night will be held early in the school year and will focus on how to plan and present a science project.  There will be stations focusing on each step of the project:  basic processes, rules, ideas for a project, how to assemble a board, and judging.  SAC discussed requiring science projects from the GATE classes in grades 1 – 5 and encouraging them for other classes.  The family math night will be held in advance of FCAT testing, to give parents strategies for helping their kids practice at home.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:05 a.m.