IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL PARENTS

Election Process for Robert F Hall Catholic School Council 2011/2012

The purpose of the Robert F. Hall Catholic School Council, which is mandated for all schools by the Ministry of Education, is through active participation of parents, to improve pupil achievement and to enhance the accountability of the education system to parents.

Nominations for parent positions on the School Council for Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School will be received from Thursday, September 22 to Wednesday, September 28, closing at 3:30 p.m., in the school office. All nomination forms received are to be signed by a school official and marked as to date and time received. Parents must hold the majority of seats on School Council. A "Parent" is anyone who is the parent of a pupil in the school where the child is enrolled. A person is not qualified to be a parent member of a school if:

 He / she is employed at the school. or;

 He / she is employed by the Board at another school location and fails to take reasonable steps to inform voters of the employment before the vote.

Robert F. Hall Catholic School Council is comprised of parents, l teacher representative, l community representative, l parish representative, 1 member of non-teaching staff, principal, and 1 member of OAPCE.

The School Council meets monthly but is mandated by the Ministry of Education to hold a minimum of four meetings a year. All meetings are public meetings and opened to the parent community of Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School.

A parent must complete a nomination form in order to be included in the election process, which takes place in the fall (Friday September 30 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the foyer of the school, if needed). Nomination forms may be obtained from the Robert F. Hall School main office commencing Thursday September 22nd, 2011. Elections will be held if more than 12 parent positions are applied for. These elections are for parent positions only. Community representative, parish representative and OAPCE representative are appointed positions. The first School Council meeting will be on Monday October 3rd, 2011 at 7pm. As always, all parents and guardians are welcomed and encouraged to attend.

School Councils are advisory in nature but have a tremendous impact on both the quality of education and day-to-day activities within the school. Our School Council focuses on promoting Catholic values within our publicly funded education system, on testing results, semester results, curriculum enrichment, school improvement, health and safety, dress code, code of conduct, implementing our school action plan for effective schools and communicating with parents.

We work in co-operation with our school administrators in providing the best educational experience for our students. We hope that you will decide to join the School Council team and join us in our commitment to Catholic education and the future of our children.

If you have any questions please contact one of the following:

 E.McMahon, Principal, in the school office

 Marie Deckert, current school co-council chair at schoolcouncil@rfhall.ca

by leaving a message with the school office or at the CSC e-mail

Contact Info:

 Robert F Hall CSC: 905-584-1670

 schoolcouncil@rfhall.ca  

 School website: www.rfhall.ca , go to the School Council page