All Runnymede parents are welcome at the first Council Meeting of the year, Wednesday, September 28, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the school library. (Here is the agenda.)

Attendance at this meeting is required in order to become a “voting member” of council for the remainder of the year, which means you can vote on issues and motions as they come up at meetings. If you cannot attend this meeting but still wish to become a voting member, please review articles 4 and 5 of the Runnymede Public School Constitution to make sure you are eligible, and then fill out the attached self-nomination form and send it to Krista Wylie.

The administration and school council are committed to using email as the primary form of communication with parents. To accomplish this goal, we have organized an email list system that will enable you to receive information from your child’s classroom teacher, the administration and school council about school-wide activities (like concerts), classroom specific events (field trip details), updates and newsletters like the Rapport.

If you have not yet provided your email to your child’s classroom teacher, please fill out the form on the Runnymede Email Manager.

This project will help us significantly reduce the amount of paper used, make it easier for you to receive correspondence, and ensure your privacy. Your email addresses will not be shared anywhere, we have incorporated built-in verification, and all messages will be archived.

So how does it work? One parent from each of the 46 classes in our school has volunteered to act as that classroom’s email manager. Once you have provided your email address, they will invite you to join the classroom’s list and the school wide list. (A few of the classes do not have a volunteer yet. If you are interested in helping in that role, please email jemsustar-school@yahoo.ca.)

We are hoping for a 100% participation rate in this program. If you already completed and returned the green Email Sign-up form from the beginning of the school year, thank you. If you don’t receive an invitation to join the group by the end of the month, please come back and resubmit your information using the link above. You know how paper sometimes gets lost!

Please remember, this is an effort to move communication away from paper. It is NOT a method for your to ask your child’s teacher about their progress. Please speak to the teacher directly about any issue specific to your child’s needs.

Here is the schedule for Junior Boys Slowpitch. All tryouts take place at lunch (11:50 to 12:30) in the senior gym:

• Grade 6 tryout: Thursday, September 22
• Grade 5 tryout: Friday, September 23
• Grade 4 tryout: Tuesday, September 27
• Practice: Thursday, September 29
• Tournament: October 6

Full details of this not-to-be-missed event now available on this (gorgeous) poster! (click for a larger version).

 

We won’t always have all the details, but we will use this site to share any information we receive about sports teams, events, practices and tryouts. If you have some related information you think would be worth posting here, please share it with us!

• Grade 1-6 Cross Country Running practices are open to EVERYONE! They take place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 8:10 a.m., and last for about half an hour. Meet us in front of the school!
• The first cross-country meet will be at Centennial Park on Monday, Oct. 3, and is open to any student who wants to come.

• Students who qualify at that meet will attend the next race at Centennial Park on Tuesday, October 11. Finally, the City Championship run will take place on Thursday, October 20.

•  Junior Softball Girls Tryouts and practices – Wednesdays and Fridays – 7:30 – 8:30 am:  Details will be posted outside the senior gym, or students can talk to the coaches for more details.