The School Newsletter is out. Read it here.
September 20 – Last date for Spirit Wear Sales. Check out this link for details.
https://www.obwsapparel.com/collections/henry-hudson-elementary-school
September 21 – Welcome Back Multicultural Pot Luck! Read the PDF. 4:30 – 6:30 PM. School gym.
September 22 is a Pro D Day. No school.
Hot Lunch Volunteers
We need volunteers to make the program viable. Can you help on a Tuesday or Thursday for an hour? Email Marina B our hot lunch coordinator. musea79@hotmail.com
Activities Update
Activities for Term 1 are now LIVE on our website hudsonpac.ca/activities. Information on all programmes along with registration info can be found here.
We have some exciting new offerings this term, along with some re-vamped favourites, and many old favourites. Here’re the deets:
New Programme:
Chi Kids – This is a mind/body programme that focuses on teaching kids how to manage tough emotions, anger, frustration, anxiety and shyness. It’s taught in a play based way by certified Chi Kids teacher Shauna Farrell. There are only 8 spots on this programme (Grades 1-4) so sign up soon to be sure of a spot.
Re-Vamped Programmes:
School of Rock Guitar – We have a new guitar teacher joining us this term. Marc Wild is a Leo nominated composer, musician, (he’s played with Coldplay, The Sterephonics, The Dandy Warhols …) experienced music teacher, and Dad of a kid at Tennyson. He will be teaching guitar to our kids grades 4-7 using popular music at the centre of the programme. (If your child took guitar last year, is not in grade 4, and would like to continue, please contact Nicola at hudsonactivities@gmail.com)
Ocean Explorers – Ocean Explorers is back, with new content and a new price tag! It will now be a classroom based programme and is 1 hour long.
Chess Club – Because Chess club is so darn popular – Vancouver Chess School is now sending 2 instructors, meaning that the kids will have a much better teacher to student ratio.
Suggestions & Feedback:
If you have feedback – good, bad or ugly on any of our programmes, please let Nicola the activities coordinator know hudsonactivities@gmail.com. We can’t fix issues that we don’t know about.
On the other hand, if you have a great idea that you would like to see turn into an afterschool activity, please let us know. The deadline for new programme submissions for Term 2 will be Friday November 10, 2017. For more information check out hudsonpac.ca/new-activities
Advocacy
As advised at the last PAC meeting, the Hudson PAC Interim Chair sent a letter to the BC Government regarding how to get Seismic Upgrading on track. (Not an official PAC communication.) Read the PDF here.
District Parent Advisory Council forum for VSB trustee candidates
This event will take place Tuesday October 03 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm in the auditorium at John Oliver Secondary School, 530 East 41st Avenue (at Fraser Street). All parents and guardians of children in Vancouver public schools are welcome.
Tracy Sherlock, education reporter for The Courier, will moderate.
All of the 19 candidates for the 9 trustee positions have been invited to participate. To make the best use of the time available, DPAC is working to prepare questions for the candidates based on the issues and concerns uppermost in the minds of parents. If you have a question you would like DPAC to consider including, please forward it to Hudson’s representative to DPAC, Alan Patola Moosmann, at apatola@telus.net by September 24.
The by-election itself takes place on October 14. For voter information, including advance polling options, see https://vancouver.ca/your-government/2017-by-election.aspx.
The Hudson PAC executive encourages all Vancouver voters connected with our school community to learn about what each candidate is bringing to support our public education system and to get out and cast an informed vote!
DPAC presents PAC 101
The September 28 DPAC executive meeting (7:00 to 9:00 pm, Room 120 at the Vancouver School Board office at 1580 West Broadway) will be dedicated to a PAC 101 session, open to all parents and guardians of children in Vancouver public schools. This will be a useful refresher on the basics of how to operate a PAC for those serving, or considering serving, on school PAC executives or committees.
BCCPAC survey for parents of special needs children who are not receiving a full day at school
BCCPAC, the provincial umbrella organization for all PACs and DPACs, is conducting a brief survey to identify the extent to which this is an issue and intending to take the results and some proposed actions to the Ministry of Education. To learn more and to take part in the survey, click here.