Weekly Reminders September 28 – October 4

DPAC’s VSB Trustee Candidate Forum

Save the Date: Thursday, October 4th from 6:30-9:30 … Have questions? Want to see who your options are? … we’ve invited all 33 trustee candidates

Municipal Elections are Oct 20!

At this time 9 Trustees are elected to the Vancouver School Board. With issues like staffing shortages, seismic upgrades, a new curriculum and much more, it’s important that people vote. To help determine who to vote for (did you know there was a candidate named Mrs Doubtfire?) the Hudson PAC in the past has collected questions for Trustee Candidates and asked for their responses and share.
Do you have a question for the candidates? Send them to hudsonpac@gmail.com and we’ll compile and present them.

https://vancouver.ca/your-government/2018-election.aspx

https://vancouver.ca/your-government/candidates-school-trustee.aspx

 

Spirit Wear

Tomorrow (Friday) is the last day to order your Henry Hudson spirit wear. Hoodies, t-shirts, track pants and shorts in kids and adult sizes. $2 from the sale of every item goes towards the PAC. Order now at https://www.obwsapparel.com/collections/henry-hudson-elementary-school

All items delivered to the school in early October. Questions: carlykrug24@gmail.com

The first Friday of every month is Spirit Day – wear your red next Friday, October 5!

 

KIDS CLOTHING AND SECOND HAND GOODS FUNDRAISER:

Time for a fall clean out? This weekend why not go through your closets and turn your junk into someone else’s treasure, and raise money for our school at the same time.

DONATE your clean, new or lightly used kids or adult clothing, small household items, toys and books.

Donation drop-off information:

Location: Girls change room in the gym.
Time: Between 8.45 and 9.15am or 2.45 and 3.15pm.
Date: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 1st – 3rd Oct 2018.

THE SALE will be on:

Thursday 4th October from 2.30pm to 4.00pm in the gym.

VOLUNTEER

Many hands make light work. If you can spare some time to help set-up and run the clothing sale we will need volunteers from 1.00pm on Thurdsay 4th Oct in the gym.

Please contact Stella at <hudsonclassrep@outlook.com> for more information or to let us know you’ll be joining the crew.

All proceeds will go to fund equipment and activities at our school.
Please bring cash or cheques made payable to Hudson PAC.
Any unsold items will be donated to Value Village.
Thank you.

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Photo Day

Tuesday, October 2 is photo day! Bust out your child’s best look, because that picture is going to be on everyone’s refrigerator for years.

 

Henry Hudson 2nd Lip Sync Battle!

Back by Popular Demand!
Friday October 5
4-5:30pm
Location: School Gym
$5/student | ALL donations go to Food4Africa: http://food4africa.org/
Perform to your favourite song! Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners!!
Register here: http://www.giveafreelunch.com/#register-for-our-lip-sync-battle

 

Winter Fair

Winter Fair is tentatively scheduled for Friday December 14. It’s a great event that kids love and it needs lots of volunteers, so please save the date and try to make time to help out if possible.

 

Activities

Basketball, Young Rembrandts, guitar, dance & expressive arts start next week.  Reminder: no school and no activities on Friday Sept 28

For events and activities, please also check the community notice board outside the school between the gym and the north-west entrance.

 

Hot Lunch

Our Hot Lunch fundraiser is in full swing. But we need volunteers! Even if you are all thumbs in the kitchen, our fun team is ready for you to help. Contact Hot Lunch Coordinator Marina Bondarenko. 604.908.7855 musea79@hotmail.com

Need to order still? See https://hudsonpac.ca/hot-lunch/

 

Paws of Empathy

This new program at Henry Hudson was featured by the Vancouver Sun. Watch volunteer Victoria Shroff in the classroom here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUNv5vt26og

 

Petition to Bring Back the Band and Strings Program

A parent has started a petition for the reinstatement of the elementary band and strings program.  Please consider signing if this is important to you: https://www.change.org/p/vancouver-school-board-trustees-restore-the-vancouver-school-board-elementary-band-and-strings-program/

 

Class Reps

We still need volunteers for these divisions: 1 (Mr. Stephen Lerch), 4 (Mrs. Katherine Tso), 8 (Mrs. Nancy Morehouse), 9 (Mrs. Jenny Kuang), 15F (Ms. Chloe Pederson-Arseneau), and either 5 (Ms. Cathy Walls) or 7 (Ms. Paraskevi Demosten). Please email jennifer.tillett@gmail.com if you are willing to serve as your class’ representative to the PAC.

 

Pick-up and Drop-off Parking Safety

The chaos of pick-up and drop-off is resulting in some unsafe situations for children, and parking tickets for parents. Unfortunately, PAC and the School Board have no control over parking regulations or enforcement (though our Traffic Safety Committee is collecting improvement ideas for the city), but we can recommend some parking strategies.

If you can, arrive earlier to avoid the 8:50-9:10 rush. Parking is available on the far side of the field on Maple Street if you need to walk your child in, and there is a safe path to the school between the parking lot and the field. Parking is also available on Chestnut and 1st Avenue and the meters are free until 9am, so if your child walks in at the first bell (8:53) you’ll have time to get back to your car. The city parking app also has a “Park Until” feature, so you can choose to pay for a few minutes past 9 if you need more time.

On York Avenue, please obey the posted regulations and park your car efficiently to maximize the number of cars that can pull over safely. Do not stop in front of the driveway where most children enter the playground (and especially don’t drive on to the playground!), and do not let children out while you are still in the driving lane – you do not want to be the cause of a child being hit by a car. East of the driveway is only for pulling over and letting children out of your car – do not park and leave your car. This is important to keep the flow of cars going and not cause a huge back-up behind you. West of the driveway, we are supposed to have a 5-minute grace period to park and take our children in. Please park efficiently so we can pack in as many cars as possible. Pull all the way up to the car in front of you, and/or align your bumper with the sign that marks the edge of the parking zone.

A parent has created a Google Map showing non-permit parking within about 5 minutes walk from Hudson. Please consult it if you need to park for more than 5 minutes to drop-off/pick-up and are having trouble finding an appropriate spot. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_SR9n2a3wZsqecZlMBQEARSnft2GgbrR&usp=sharing