Sunday, March 31, 2013

Agenda for RAPT Meeting: April 4th

Agenda for RAPT Meeting: April 4th, 2013
Please join us in the Library at 6pm, Babysitting provided for school aged children

  1. RAPT Welcome
  2. Principal’s Report 

a. Teacher’s Allocation
b. EQAO
  1. Budget/Treasurer Report
  2. Fundraising/Event Update
    1. Dance-a-thon
    2. Cookbook
    3. Alyson Shafer: March 27th, 2013
    4. Grade 6 Graduation
    5. BBQ
    6. Jump Rope for Heart
    7. 2013 – 2014 Fundraising Meeting
  3. Other
a. ‘The Voice Board’
6. Goodnight – Propose next RAPT Meeting dates: a. May 1st, May 15th, or May 22nd 

Friday, March 22, 2013

Alyson Schafer Presentation


March School Newsletter

The school has had an issue uploading the monthly newsletter for March onto their website.  Hopefully the problem will be rectified soon but in the meantime you can access the newsletter with this link:


Remember to check the school website after the first Thursday of each month for the their newsletter.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

3 Things you missed at the last RAPT Meeting


  1. To reduce expenditures, RAPT will no longer purchase extra pizza for staff and volunteers on Pizza Lunch days.
  2. The Dance-a-thon was a huge success, raising over $3400 for technology improvements in the school.
  3.  The cookbook website has been accepting recipe submissions and the student cookbook cover contest has opened for submissions.
Next RAPT Meeting: April 4th @ 6pm


Trustee Gershon's Ward Forum Meeting


Budget Ward Forum
with Trustees Laskin, Gershon, Rutka, Goodman and Ward

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

in the Auditorium at Earl Haig, 100 Princess Avenue
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Childcare Provided
Please join us for a presentation and discussion of the TDSB Proposed Budget, 2013-14 with Vidyia Rego, TDSB’s Chief Financial Officer and Superintendents

Cookbook Update


Thank you for submitting your recipes for the cookbook.  With your help, we met the minimum required by our deadline and will begin taking orders for a print run after the March Break.
In fact, we have received well over 100 sweet recipes!

The website will stay open for recipe submissions until the end of the month so if you have not had a chance to submit your recipe or have more you wish to enter please go to the following address and enter our special login and password:
Login: rippleton
Password: roadrunners

We have seen some great entries from the students for the Cookbook cover contest.  The deadline for the contest is March 19th - if your student is still interested in submitting, an entry form can be found here:

Friday, March 8, 2013

Labour Action Addresses


Are you interested in writing a letter to express your feelings on the continuing labour action? Here are the office mailing addresses of they key players in this ongoing dispute.

Liz Sandals - Ontario Minister of Education 

Sam Hammond - President of Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO)
Phone: 416-962-3836
Toll Free: 1-888-838-3836
Fax: 416-642-2424

Karen Brown - Toronto Local Executive Members (ETFO)

Pamela Dogra - Toronto Local Executive Members (ETFO)

Martin Long - Elementary Teachers of Toronto Local  (ETFO)

Gerri Gershon - Ward 13 Trustee
Phone: 416-395-8408