Woodlands School Council

Minutes of the School Council meeting held on May 31, 2010 are attached (in PDF format)

The agenda for the school council meeting to be held on April 26, 2010 is attached (PDF format).

The Woodlands School administration has asked the Parent Council to pass this message on to our mailing list. We encourage you to devote a few minutes to completing the survey by Thursday afternoon.

Dear Parents of The Woodlands School,

A school's mission, vision, values, and collective commitments are generally revisited every 3 to 5 years to ensure that they reflect the current School Success initiatives. Prior to the school year ending, we'd like to begin by revisiting the school's mission statement.

It is important that a mission statement have the input of parents, students, and staff. To facilitate this I have attached a short anonymous survey. We'd like you to take a few minutes to provide us with your ideas on two questions that will support the writing of a new mission statement for our school.  A similar survey will be given to staff, and to randomly selected students in the school.

Please take a moment to complete the survey by clicking on the link below. We would appreciate your participation in this survey before 3 pm on Thursday, May 20th.

Link to parent survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6V5ZP9D

Thank you,

Carol Suhay

Vice Principal, The Woodlands School

905-279-0575, ext. 403

The school council received this information via email and is passing it along as a service to parents...

Good Morning,

I am writing to let you know that the dates for the 2010 Aspiring Business Leaders Program have now been confirmed.  The program will take place at the University of Toronto - Mississauga between August 15th and August 20th.

This is an excellent opportunity for high school students to learn more about the different facets of business and to experience what university life is really like.  The program is led by former Faculty and current students of the Richard Ivey School of Business and the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law.

Feedback from last year's program was outstanding and we have plenty more in store for this year.  Again, thanks to the support of our generous corporate sponsors, we have $10,000 in bursaries available.

Interested teachers, parents, and students can learn more about the program by visiting our website www.ixlacademy.com.

Thank you,

Joe Figliomeni
Program Director
IXL Academy

Space is still available for the Body Image for Adolescents presentation at The Woodlands tonight. The presentation starts at 8:00pm, following the 7:30 council meeting which is also open to all parents.

Please register on the website if you will be attending the Body Image presentation so that we can confirm numbers with our guest speakers.

Thanks and we hope to see you there

The Woodlands School Parent Council

The agenda for the school council meeting to be held on April 26, 2010
is attached (PDF format).

School Council is pleased to confirm that the Speaker Series event for April 26 will be a presentation on Body Image for Adolescents. Click here for more details and to sign up to attend.

The Woodlands Math Department has a new website where results can be found for the many Math and Computing competitions that our students participate in.

The website address is http://woodlandsmath.wikispaces.com.

On a related note, School Council congratulates the Math Department and its students on their CNML results this year. With five out of six rounds completed, Woodlands sits in first place in Canada as the only school with a perfect 150/150 score to date.

The Ontario branch of the International Dyslexia Association has asked us to pass this information on. School Council is pleased to bring this event to the awareness of the parent community.

The International Dyslexia Association’s (Ontario Branch)  6th annual Dimensions of Dyslexia Conference will take place on May 8th, 2010 at Havergal College. The conference is for both parents and educators with separate sessions for each. We have three experts in dyslexia who will be addressing parents from the perspectives of special education, speech language pathology, and educational psychology. Each expert will teach the parents how they could help their children in extremely functional and practical ways.

In addition, the day will start with a theater piece called 'Learn Dis!' from the Inspired Playback Theater Company which is a very powerful and poignant experience.

There is also a full day of sessions for educational professionals and so we are also announcing the conference to teachers, speech-language pathologists and psychologists. You can see more information in the attached flyer and at http://www.idaontario.com