In Attendance: Teena Kasha, Jeanni Hoermann, Wes Wilson (Principal), Alison Eshpeter, Brenda McKay, Jenni Thomas (Assistant Principal), Chantelle Hayes
I. Teena Kasha called to order the regular meeting of the Daysland School Council at 7:02pm.
II. Open Floor Shout Out - To Mrs. V. Zimmer, Mrs. Tobler, and Mr. Rastachak for returning the Travel club kids back safely!
III. Review of Agenda - Chantelle moved to accept the agenda. Brenda seconded. All in favour. Motion carried.
IV. Approval of minutes from last meeting - No meeting in March. Minutes from February 19, 2025 were circulated prior to meeting. Jeannie moved minutes accepted as circulated. Alison seconded. All in favour. Motion carried.
V. Correspondence - None
VI. Reports
a) Administrator (Mr. Wilson/Mrs. Thomas)
1. Thank you/Acknowledgement
a. Chromebook support - 30 new Chromebooks have been purchased and will be ready to go for next school year.
2. Score Clock Replacement Planning
a. We need to start thinking about a replacement for our score clock.
b. We have been approached by someone in the Rosalind area to provide a designated driver service for a wedding. We are looking for parents that would be willing to assist.
3. Graduation Update
a. PD Day - No school for students but staff are in the building.
b. Banquet for grads and their parents will be held at the hall at 5:00pm
c. Ceremony will begin at 7:00pm in the gym.
4. Swimming Lessons Starting in April
a. Week of April 7th - Gr. 1 & 3
b. Week of April 28th - Gr. 4 & 6
c. Week of May 5th - Gr. 2 & 5
5. Theme Day = May
a. Hat Day - May 1st
6. Town Clean Up
a. Thursday - May 1st
7. 2025-26 Bell Schedule
a. Our start and end times will remain the same.
b. We have one more instructional day with students; so that means we have extended most of our break time by 1 minute.
8. Pow Wow - May 22
a. Invited by Viking
b. Planning to take our K-9 students
9. Success Starts Early Event
a. Monday, June 9th from 1:00pm - 4:00pm
b. New incoming Kindergarten students and their families
10. New Curriculum Changes for 2025-26
a. K-3 Social Studies will be implemented
b. Gr. 7s will be piloting the new curriculum throughout BRSD. Gr. 8 is optional and we will work with our teachers to determine whether we pilot or not.
11. PAT/Diploma Exam Schedule
May 29
- Grade 9 ELA Part A: 9:00 - 11:00
- Grade 6 ELA Part A: 9:00 - 10:20
June 12
- Social 30 Part A
June 19
- Social 30 Part B
- Math 9 Part A: 9:00 - 9:30
- Math 6 Part A: 9:00 - 9:20
June 20
- Biology 30
- ELA 9 Part B: 9:00 - 10:15
- ELA 6 Part B: 9:00 - 10:00
June 23
- Math 9 Part B: 9:00 - 10:20
- Math 6 Part B: 9:00 - 10:10
June 24
- Physics 30
- Social 9: 9:00 - 10:20
- Social 6: 9:00 - 10:00
June 25
- Science 9: 9:00 - 10:15
- No Science 6 due to curriculum change
b) Room Rep Reports:
Kindergarten (submitted by Hannah Stefanishion): Mrs. Tanton - No update.
Grade 1 (submitted by Chantelle Hayes): Camy Lang - Our class has adjusted well to the switching of teachers. We have been making great gains with our reading and writing skills lately. We focus on the UFLI methods and it is a wonderful program. We are learning about honey bees and expect to have a couple of beekeepers come to our class for a presentation in the coming weeks. We will also be planting flowers in the near future! We are in the midst of planning our year end field trip, we are just trying to finalize the details. We will be visiting the Rosalind Hutterite Colony!
Grade 2 (submitted by Laura Zwack): Mrs. Schlaut - Everything is running smoothly in grade two. We have been working on improving our reading skills by doing some Reader's Theatre in our classroom. It has been fun to learn how to read and act at the same time. We are focusing on how to write an informational text for the last couple of weeks. We are starting to put everything we learned together and we will write about seahorses. We are just about finished our Patterns unit in math. We have been learning about light energy in Science and focusing on the community of Meteghan in social. We have been working on some Easter projects that will be going home tomorrow that we have had lots of fun creating. Swimming lessons will begin the first week in May.
Grade 3 (submitted by Kristie Nahajowich): Mrs. Schmidt-Teigen - We had a lot of fun breaking routine last week to head to the pool for swimming lessons. We have also been having a lot of fun researching a biographical figure to present to friends and family and the Grade 2 class this week in the learning commons. In Math we are learning to tell time, in Science we will be constructing our own simple machines in the makerspace, and in Social Studies we are learning about the last of the four countries, Tunisia. On May 8th we head to Telus World of Science for our class trip. Thanks to School Council for contributing funds towards that! We're looking forward to it.
Grade 4 (Alison Eshpeter): Mr. Charchun - In ELA this week we will be writing our good copies of our narratives. We have our grammar test over adjectives this week and of course our weekly spelling test as well. Bonus spelling word this week is: characteristics. Both of these will be on Thursday. In Science we had our Unit Test on Living Systems and we will then begin our Earth Systems Unit in class. In Math we have started our new Geometry Unit. We will be looking at naming different shapes and learning how to measure various types of angles while being able to name those angles as well. In Social Studies we are in our Alberta: Celebrations and Challenges Unit. This unit explores what makes our province unique and some of the history behind how Alberta became a province.
Grade 5 (Kirby Schmidt-Teigen): Mrs. Thomas/Mr. Wilson - In ELA this month in Grade 5 we have been working on writing informational reports, learning how to find information online to support our ideas and referencing where we get our information. In Science, we have wrapped up our study of space and move on to Weather and Climate. We have a field trip our to the pond coming up in a few weeks, which will be run by the Battle River Watershed Alliance. They have developed some programming for the new science curriculum and are coming to us! They will be teaching us about and giving us some hands-on experiences, with weather watching, water storage on the landscape, and measuring soil moisture. In Math, we have been working on dividing 2 and 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. The kids are absolutely loving the process of ling division. We will keep working on mastering this important skill. Next, we will be starting to work with improper fractions, as well as adding and subtracting fractions. The grade 5s have swimming lessons and Circle Square Ranch coming up.
Grade 6 (Brenda McKay): Mrs. McKay - Everything is moving along well in grade 6. We are thinking ahead to PATs and starting to prepare by doing lots of writing in ELA. In Math, we are wrapping up a unit tomorrow and have three more to finish before the end of the year. In Science, we have been learning about climate change and are currently completing a whole-class collaborative slideshow on extreme weather events around Canada and the world. In Social Studies, we are learning about the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. We just completed making our very own wampum belts with symbols to represent ourselves. Everyone enjoyed this project very much. We are looking forward to swimming lessons and our field trip to Circle Square Ranch!
Grade 7/8 (Cristin Zimmer): No update.
Grade 9 (Candice Guhle): No update.
Grade 10 (Carrie Carriere): Mrs. Walker - In Math, Grade 10s are working through the relations and functions unit. They've completed one chapter and are now working on equations on linear functions.
Grade 11 (Teena Kasha): Mrs. M. Zimmer - In Math we are finishing up unit 6, students will have a chapter test in one week! We have 3 units left but they are a bit easier, as well as shorter.
Grade 12 (Jeannie Hoermann): Mrs. Walker - In Biology, the Grade 12s are starting their study of genetics and heredity. Over the next few weeks, they will be looking at different inheritance patterns and analyzing family trees. In Physics, the Grade 12s are just about to start the electromagnetism unit. We will be looking at how magnets are affected by electric current. For graduation ceremonies, we are in the final stages of planning. Parents should expect a few more email updates with the specific timeline for the week leading up to and the day of the ceremony. Mr. Pastachak - In Social 30, students have been watching videos and taking notes on Economics. Specifically, Welfare Capitalism and the rise and fall of the Stock Market in the 20's and 30's. Over the next week or so, we are moving on to talk about the "opponents to liberalism" that being Communism and Facism. Students will be assigned Photo Essay on either Nazi Germany or the USSR.
VII. Business arising from minutes:
None
VIII. New Business:
None
IX. Adjournment
Teena adjourned the meeting at 8:04pm
Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 7:00pm at Daysland School.
