October 18 – First day of fruit and vegetable program.
October 18 – All parents are invited to the PAC meeting at 6:30pm in the library. Elections will be held.
October 18 & 19 – Early dismissal at 2pm for goal setting conferences.
October 20 – No school (PRO-D day)

Direct Donation Campaign

This year’s Direct Donation Campaign has started! Our focus is acquiring technology for the children to boost learning. So, to avoid a series of annoying product fundraisers, please check out the PAC’s way to donate to Hudson and receive a tax receipt. Download the form.

Activities

Crossfit for Kids Starts on Monday, October 16
We’re going to be running Crossfit on Mondays at lunch starting next week. It is taught by local Mom, & Crossfit West 10th owner, Nancy Rankel-Allen. We thought that it would be a great way to get the older kids active in a non-competitive way that just focuses on healthy lifestyles. Cost is $80 for 8 sessions, to register email info@crossfitwest10.com with Henry Hudson in the subject line. Check out the Activities page on our website for more info.
No Guitar on Thursday, October 19
There will be no lunchtime guitar on Thursday. The teacher has scheduled a make-up class for November 23.
Early Dismissal & Activities
Due to early dismissal at 2pm on Wednesday & Thursday next week choir will take place earlier in the day from 2-3pm. All other activities are running at usual time, so don’t let the schedule change cause you to forget to go!
Wednesday – Senior Choir 2-3pm, Ocean Explorers 3-4pm.
Thursday – Chi Kids 3-4pm.
Orca Whale at Hudson
Our friends at Ocean Explorers are bringing an entire Orca Whale skeleton (died naturally) to school on Wednesday to run in class programs with 4 classes plus their after school program. The kids are going to be doing the biggest jigsaw puzzle of their lives. If you are curious to see it, stop by the gym on Wednesday at early dismissal.
Feedback
Now that everyone is settling into their fall activities, please let us know if you have any feedback regarding an activities provider. As we’re a volunteer-run organization, it’s hard for us to be everywhere at once, so rely on you to be our eyes and ears.
If an instructor is particularly amazing – please let us know. We’ll request to keep that instructor. If you are having a less than stellar experience – let us know so that we can work with the provider to try to turn that around for you. We are a parent-run organization, that supports parents in our community, it’s important to us that our providers are top notch.
If you have any feedback, please send it to the activities mailbox: hudsonactivities@gmail.com.

Advocacy

Our advocacy updates are for information only, to encourage informed parent participation in issues affecting public education, and do not represent specific positions of the Hudson PAC executive.
Seismic Upgrade Petition
The link to the Seismic Upgrades petition started by a Hudson parent can be found on our homepage. If you haven’t already, please show your support and take a moment to sign it. Please also consider helping this get wider distribution by sharing the link with any of your own wider networks.
VSB trustee by-election
Last reminder about the Saturday, October 14 by-election! For location of polling stations, confirming you are on the voters’ list, etc., see the City of Vancouver website. This site also links to profiles provided by all the candidates.
Another useful resource for exploring the candidates’ positions is at http://www.panvancouver.ca/news, which includes answers from most of the candidates to six questions posed by the Parent Advocacy Network.
Provincial budget survey
The provincial Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services is an all-party committee which holds hearings across the province this time every year to gather public input into priorities for the next provincial budget, which will be released in February 2018.
For the last three years this committee has strongly recommended revisions to the funding formula for public education and increased investment in the system, recommendations which the government of the day did not take up.
One of the mechanisms for public input is a brief survey (click the “Complete a survey” button) consisting of three open questions. The survey closes at 5pm on Monday, October 16.
The Parent Advocacy Network’s detailed submission last week to the Select Standing Committee is worth a read and can be found here.

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