June Newsletter now online

Hello Bowmore Parents!

The Bowmore News Newsletter is available online!

http://www.tdsb.on.ca/SchoolWeb/Bowmore/docs/June%20newsletter%20%202010.pdf

Cheers,
Bowmore School Parent Council

PRO Grant 2009/2010 - Connection Expo @ Bowmore

In case you haven't had a chance to read the May Newsletter yet, we wanted another outlet to give thanks:

CONNECTION EXPO @ BOWMORE IS VERY
THANKFUL

The Bowmore School Council would like to thank the
Ontario Ministry of Education for the $550 Parents
Reaching Out Grant (PRO) to produce Connection Expo
@ Bowmore on Wednesday, May 5, 2010.

The event took place the same night as the school’s Living and Learning
Open House; both of these events were a fantastic way for
the school, the school council, students, families,
guardians and the community to celebrate Education
Week 2010.

Thank you to: Melissa Kittmer who helped the Expo
Committee write the PRO grant; Paul Kittmer who designed
and produced the beautiful silk screened banners and
posters; Rob Tilley - Expo volunteer, Lloyd Gray - Expo
volunteer, Lori Anne Keith -face painter extraordinaire,
Maureen Boles for donating two AGO passes for the
raffle; Denise Mak for the digital camera donation from
Henry’s Photo-Video-Digital for the raffle and the 100+
tickets to the Photographic, Video & Digital Imaging
Show; Sandra Bussin and staff for the wonderful gift
basket for the raffle; ParticipACTION for the donation of
pedometers, Redpath Sugar - Acts of Sweetness for tours of their vintage truck,
activity sheets and aprons; Beach Metro Community News
for donating a free ad; SNAP Beaches/Danforth for
photography services and event listing; Lilian Hanson,
James Jarrett and all the Bowmore Staff for support and
collaboration; and to all our exhibitors: ABC Life Literacy
Canada, Fairmount Park Community Centre, Active Kids
Club, Toronto Fire Services, Toronto Police Services,
Toronto Public Library, The Library Settlement
Partnership (LSP), Toronto Public Health Nurse, Carol
Harrison – R.N., City of Toronto: 311, City of Toronto
Arts and Culture, Nicola Maguire for displaying her
brilliant artwork, Shelly Long-MART/Guidance
Counsellor, Expo Translators: Mari Wasee (Farsi),
Madhave Upadyay (Urdu), and Mandarin/Cantonese
support, Randy Langlois – Head Caretaker and staff for
excellent set up, tear down and on site support, and last,
but not least, the Connection Expo Committee: Annette
Bourque, Kyle Duncan, Le Eiko Hockema, Orla Kipling,
Jennifer Jones, and Susana Molinolo.

And last but not least, thank you to everyone who came by and experienced the expo.

May Newsletter

The school's May newsletter is now available online: http://www.tdsb.on.ca/SchoolWeb/_site/ViewItem.asp?siteid=10328&menuid=18165&pageid=15962

Online Parent Survey

As part of the TDSB's Vision of Hope, one of the three priority areas they are focusing on is parent and community engagement.

The survey takes less than 2 minutes to complete, is anonymous and confidential, and available online in 22 languages.

Thank you for participating in the survey: www.tdsb.on.ca/parentsurvey

Volunteers & Bakers Needed. Thank You!

Very Special Night at Bowmore! May 5, 2010

Good evening everyone,

Bowmore Public School Teachers and Staff and Bowmore School Council, cordially invite you to Bowmore's upcoming Living & Learning Open House and Connection Expo.

We are so grateful to Paul Kittmer, a parent a Bowmore who designed the poster for us. Enormous thanks Paul!

We hope you, your families and neighbours will join us at some point during that evening. The cafe will be selling cheese pizza slices, fruit and milk, and for dessert you can enjoy a delicious bounty from the bake sale.

If weather permits, there will be a bouncy caste in the school yard; and if logistics pan out, the Fire Dept will be there with their truck for the kids' enjoyment. There will be many prizes and raffles, and most important many opportunities to enjoy a night at Bowmore with your family and make new friends.

If you would like to get involved with the bake sale, the cafe, the expo, the open house, or other school council duties, please reply to this email and we'll put you in touch with the coordinators in charge.

Thanks for your ongoing support!

We look forward to seeing you at Bowmore on Wed May 5th :-)

Thank You! Merci! Grazie! Gracias!

Good morning Bowmore families,

Thank you to everyone who came out to the School Council meeting last night. Great to see such a large turnout and have such productive discussions.

It was a very productive meeting, ran a little longer than normal, but Lilian, Stefan and Pippi had much good news to share, and important updates to communicate. The minutes from the meeting will be sent promptly.

Just a few follow ups to the meeting, which you may want to be aware of, and some you may want to jot down in your calendars:

(1) Here's the email from Sheila Cary-Meagher, regarding the upcoming Audit Report Meeting. All TDSB parents are welcome to attend:

This is what we’ve been waiting for! It is with great excitement that we invite you to the Ward 16 Audit Report Meeting to be held at Secord School, 101 Barrington Avenue on April 13th at 7:00 p.m. Results of the Eco Energy Audits conducted on all Ward 16 schools will be discussed. Please come and join us in this exciting new adventure - “Our Green Future”.

(2) Election and Vacancy Bylaws were unanimously approved. The document will be sent home next week to all families.

(3) Connection Expo @ Bowmore, also called the 'expo' and Living & Learning Open House, also called the 'open house' takes place on Wednesday May 5, from 4-7pm. Dawn will coordinate the Bake Sale and Sophie and MIchelle will coordinate the Cafe. We need bakers, baked goods sellers, cafe volunteers, and expo volunteers. We are asking volunteers to commit to 30 minutes or more in the station/area of their choice, to get involved please email: bowmoresc@gmail.com

(4) Pizza Lunch on Apr 23 & May 28 needs volunteers, please email: bowmoresc@gmail.com

(5) Earth Day School Clean Up, April 23, clean up the school, inside & out


Thank you for your time.

Have a great day!
Bowmore School Council