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Board - Committee Commission - Council:
2018.JUN I PM 3: 17
School Council -J Warren Killam Elementary
Date: 2018-06-11 Time: 3:00 PK
Building: School - Killam Location: Conference Room
Address: 333 Charles Street
Purpose: Monthly Meeting for.June 2017-2018 School Year-
Attendees: Members - Present:
Sarah Leveque
Kate Splaine
Lauren Gramolini
Nick Marrangoni
Jennifer Vogelzang
Sharon Grottkau
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Lauren Gramolini
Topics of Discussion:
The tenth monthly meeting of the I.W. Killam Elementary School was held in the conference
room of the Killam Elementary School on June 11, 2018.
Call to order:
A_quorum of members being present and the meeting having been duly convened at Killam
School by the Killam Principal, Sarah Leveque had called the meeting to order at 3:00 and
proceeded with business.
Review and Acceptance of Minutes:
Members reviewed draft'-minutes from the May meeting.
There being no further discussion, Ms: Leveque.moved that the minutes for the month be
accepted as drafted.
Focus Area: Attendance Issues
For this meeting, our focus continued to be attendance. More specifically, we talked.about
howjwhen'we could get the information-out to parents that this would be an area of focus
for the:upcoming 2018=2019 school year.
We looked at-an example letter written by Joshua.Eaton Principal, Lisa Marie Ippolito, that
she sent out to families at her school. We discussed if we would like to do something
similar, what parts of the letter, if any we would change, and what we liked that she
included. We liked that she stayed very informative, excluding.any data/charts that could
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be overwhelming-to.parents. We liked that she.included how.absenteeism impacts all
students from K-12. We decided that we should use a lettersimilar to this and that it
should be sent over the summer, toward the start of the next school year. Ms. Leveque's
presentation at Curriculum.Night will hit on these absentee issues, but she will include more
of the data pieces.
Adjournment
.There being no further business, the School Council adjourned at 4:00 for the final meeting
of the.2017-2018 school year.
Respectfully Submitted,
Lauren Gramolini
Recording Secretary
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