Minutes of last meeting of 2009

We had the last meeting of this year yesterday (3rd December) and discussed lot of interesting points. For those who missed it, please read through.

Attendees:
Rao, Olga, John, Meena and Tom

Time:
7:45pm to 9:15 pm

Minutes:
1. School Logo: The competition will be on 30th Jan. Letters will be sent to parents when school reopens on Jan 7th to solicit entries by 28th. Action: Olga

2. Enrollment Committee: So far no representation from the parents on to this though the 1st meeting held on 30th November. The meeting time has been moved to 7pm to accommodate working parents. Next meeting would be on 18th Jan.

3. Celebration of Light: As you all know the Lucan Taskforce for an Educate Together Second Level School is organizing this on 21st at 7pm in Griffeen Valley ETNS. There is an opportunity to raise funds by selling food and some other items in a stall. We want to take utilize this opportunity to raise few bucks for PA. A mail will be send with details soon.

4. Track suite from School: Discussed on the idea of providing track suite(s) with school logo and name. It will be in multiple colors. We'll invite a textile vendor to display samples (materials, colors, etc) with an estimate of price so that parents will have a choice to choose. It's voluntary and there is no compulsion on parents to buy or children to wear on any particular day. Also there is no interest of raising funds. We'll flush out more on this once board formally approves it. If anyone wants to involve with this project please let me know.

5. Use of School hall: The school hall is open to parents for running any group activities for children, like music classes, religious meetings, language classes, etc. The available time slots will be posted on the school web site. If interested please talk to Tom.

6. News letter: PA will send news letter along with school communications as a means of improving communications.

7. Meeting schedule: We'll meet once in a month and avoid 2nd Thursday, which will coincide with Board meeting. Next meeting date will be decided after school reopens in the new year.

Happy New Year
Rao

Meeting minutes of 5th November

Attendees:
Rao, Lara, Olga, Sofia, Aminat and Tom

Minutes:
1. Raffles Project:
Discussed how did it go and shared experiences - conclusion is that we are better in organizing next such event mainly because we know what worked and what not. Special Kudos to Juna for selling tickets in person. We appricate the efforts of Sofia and Rashmi for their participation and capturing some photos on the Halloween day. Those photos would be shared to this group soon.

Due to some administrative hurdles, we have not announced winners. Tom will be announcing winning tickets and disctirbuting hampers to them next week. PA will inform parents about winnners and say "thank you" for their participation.

2. Logo Competition
Not much progress so far. But decided to leave this event until January mainly because of the coming Christmas party and mood. In the mean time we finalise the letter to be sent to all parents.

3. Misson statement for the school
Lara informed that a proper misson statement is required for the school. Tom will take the lead on this initially, and then interested people can contribute to it. More to follow on this in coming weeks

4. Parents rep on ET enrollment committee
Tom is looking for a representatibe from PA onto the enrollment committe of the Educate Together schools in Lucan area. We welcome any interested volunteers to give his/her name ASAP.

5. Chirstmas Party
The Adamstown community Christmas party would be held on December 12th in St. Johns school. We want to do a little item for 5-10 minutes there. We need to see what can we do in next meeting.

6. Lara updated us about what is going on in the school.
- Relationships and Sexual Education (RSE) policy and committee
- Social Personal Health education
- Halloween party

7. Committee on RSE policy
Relationships and Sexual education policy for the ACETNS will be created by a committe of 6 people represeting from the Board, teachers and Parents. Dermot and Lara will be from the staff, Rao and Olga will be on this committe from PA.

8. Next meeting 19th November at 7:30 pm

Action Items:
Raffles: Tom to draw, Rao to prepare note to parents.
Logo: Olga and Rao to prepare a letter to be sent to parents
Parent Rep on ET enrollment committe: Rao to inform name to Tom after consulting parents
Christmas party: Everyone to think on it before next meeting


Let me know if I miss something.

Thanks
Rao

Meeting Minutes on 8th

Attendees:
Olga, Rahul, Rakshmi, Sofia, Juna and Rao

Minutes:
1. Discussed fund raising ideas mainly to meet the administrative expenses for the Association. Decided to go ahead with Raffle competition on the eve of Halloween celebrations. Since the school is organising Assembly on 23rd October, we want to draw raffles to distribute Hampers to 5 or more children. Each Raffle would cost €1 and PA would be selling them to Parents at the school in the morning.
Actions: Rao to print posters, Olga to buy Raffles, Juna to sell tickets for the week of 13th and Sofia to identify Hampers. Rakshmi/Sofia would present on 23rd at the Assembly to distribute gifts.
2. Logo Competition: Due to Halloween Raffle meetings, we want to organize this at the end of November. There will be a gift voucher if there is a winner. Olga will arrange to send letters to PA via Tom.
3. Calendar 2010: On behalf of Tina, Rao informed the members that the proposed Calendar idea has been dropped due to lack of sufficient funds to invest at this stage and also not enough progress is made on the proposed theme "Concept of Ireland". There was mixed reaction to this and we discussed different alternatives. The options are left open to see the feasibility of bringing a decent calendar by 1st Dec and at a reasonable price.
4. Next meeting: Mostly Nov 5th. If required earlier, all registered members will be informed.

Rao

Raffle Competition

Halloween Fun ---------- Halloween Hampers

Raffles!! Raffles!! Raffles!!

Chance to win a Halloween Hamper Gift Pack!!!!

Parents can buy a raffle for €1

Gift a raffle for your child to enter raffle competition

Draw on 23rd October Friday
At the time of Halloween Assembly in the School

Email: acetnspa@gmail.com Ph: 086 0633087

Meeting minutes of 24th

Attendees:
Hanumantha Rao, Tina Jansson, Olga knutova, John Clair, Rashmi
Sawhney, Gema Pintor, Samille, Olajide Ogidam, Usmen, Aminat, Una
Murphy, Rahul Seth, Sofia Alberty and Tom

Minutes:
* Welcome to new members: It was good to see new parents attendance
and interest to actively involve with the Association. After short
introduction about PA, thoughts were in the air from all corners on
how best we can improve PA. We'll see how we execute some social
events based on our experimental experiences so far - more in next
meeting.

* Committee members: Four new enthusiastic parents joined the
committee. These additions bring the numbers to its capacity. So the
committee is as follows:
1. John Clair
2. Rashmi Sawhney
3. Olajide Ogidam
4. Aminat
1. Olga Knutova,
2. Rahul Seth,
3. Juna Rosaies
4. Tina Jansson (Secretary)
5. Sofia Alberty (Treasurer)
6. Hanumantha Rao (Chairperson)

* Spreading the Word of PA: To meet our objectives of socializing,
fund raising and fun-filled activities we need active participation
from other parents. Suggestions were to collect as many email ids and
phone numbers from parents and communicate effectively. Also,
encourage parents to use school blogs for sharing constructive views

* School Calender: Tina updated the group on the latest status on this
project. We thought it would be better to send letters to parents for
information.

* School Logo: We decided to held the competition on 1st Nov. We need
this logo for the calender as well, and we need to make sure that Logo
would be the last one to add just before going to the printer. Olga
would be sending details of the competition to parents.

* PA Constitution: Tom updated BoM feedback. We need to resubmit to
the Board with changes.

* Next meeting would be on 8th October at 7:30 pm

Actions:
1. Rao to follow on better communications
2. Tina to send letters to parents on Calender
3. Olga to send details to parents about the logo competition.
4. Rao to submit updated version to the board.

Thanks
Rao
(Hanumantha Rao)

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