ARES PAC

SD8 - Kootenay Lake is now beginning our information and registration progress for our vibrant French Immersion program! If you would like to learn more, please... sign up for one of our upcoming info sessions: Nelson: Tuesday, January 19 - 6:30 to 7:30 PM (PST) https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSdJfGXMEJzPTwBUJc/viewform Creston: Wednesday, January 20 - 6:30 to 7:30 PM (MST) https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLScJ5lrTVzDB9LXGdy/viewform #SD8KootenayLake #SD8FrenchImmersion #doctorperkins1

Quick reminder folks! Lunch order forms due tomorrow by 9:00 a.m.

Hello ARES Parents, I just wanted to send out a reminder about the Internet Safety Series for Parents and Caregivers presentations that are beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, 12 January. Pre-registration is required and details following with a link to do so. Thanks.... Greg Email from Gillian Wells: Thank you for your interest in the upcoming Internet Safety Series with the White Hatter hosted by the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL). Click on the link below to register for the series and receive the online links to access each workshop. By registering for the series you will be sent the link for each session separately prior to the event date. Please note, you do not have to register for each individual date once you have registered for the series, you will be on the mailing list to receive access to each individual event date. You can choose to attend any or all session dates. https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/l/CBALCrestonRegistration Under Program name please use: Internet Safety Series

We are looking forward to bringing you pizza & pasta this month! **Please check you email, Mary sent it out today! Read the form closely, both days are on one order form REMINDERS: ... - First & last name of student and teacher’s name required - One order form per child (NOT per family) because we divide orders by class when sorting - Form/s and money in a baggie, ziploc or envelope - Please be clear and neat when marking selections, we would prefer not to have to interrupt students/teachers or you for clarification Completed forms & payment need to be submitted by Friday January 15, 2021 at 9:00 a.m.

Hello ARES Parents, I hope everyone had a good holiday break and stayed healthy! The ARES PAC is ready to get back to work so we have a meeting scheduled this Wednesday, 6 January at 9:00am. We are now actively working toward our goal of having every classroom represented at our meetings. At our December meeting we asked all parents participating to identify which classrooms their children are in - the classroom covered were Matt Blick's, Lindsay Miller's, Linda Cote's, and D...anielle Sonntag's. We have identified this as very intermediate heavy and has us all worried about sustainability of the PAC going forward without more primary parents becoming involved. Please consider joining us this Wednesday to find out what we do and what the PAC offers to all our students at ARES. Happy New Year! Greg ARES PAC Chair

Kids have been asking, when will pizza day start again??? We’ve got an answerDecember 11th Guardians & Parents please check your emails, Mary was so kind to email the pizza order forms today!! Bit of a different process. Starting with printing form at home and limited options for now, but still a go!! ... Please have the orders in by Friday December 4th. Thanks!!

Hello ARES Parents: We have arrived at that important date in this year's calendar -- the ARES PAC AGM! Please join us on Wednesday, October 7 at 9:00am for lively discussion and voting on your 2020-2021 PAC Executive Board. We are still accepting nominations up till voting the day of the meeting so please let me know if you would like to get more involved. The positions being voted on are Chair, Secretary, and Interim Treasurer. These are set at 2 year stints except for the ...Interim Treasurer which is a year this time around. The existing incumbents have accepted being nominated to post again but our years are numbered at ARES and we need to be thinking of succession very quickly! The most important thing we need on Wednesday are parents to join us -- we require a quorum of members (parents) to provide legitimacy to the proceedings! Please come out and join us and we love to see new faces!!! If you have never attended a PAC meeting this is a great opportunity to meet other parents and hear what is going on around your student's school! This will be a Zoom meeting to adhere to present social-distancing guidelines. Kind Regards, Greg Wanke [email protected] is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: PAC Oct 7 2020 Time: Oct 7, 2020 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://sd8.zoom.us/j/69040052280 Meeting ID: 690 4005 2280 Passcode: 834283 One tap mobile +12042727920,,69040052280# Canada +14388097799,,69040052280# Canada Dial by your location +1 204 272 7920 Canada +1 438 809 7799 Canada +1 587 328 1099 Canada +1 613 209 3054 Canada +1 647 374 4685 Canada +1 647 375 2970 Canada +1 647 375 2971 Canada +1 778 907 2071 Canada Meeting ID: 690 4005 2280 Find your local number: https://sd8.zoom.us/u/gbIEWHx7pp Join by SIP [email protected] Join by H.323 69.174.57.160 (Canada) Meeting ID: 690 4005 2280 Passcode: 834283

At our annual AGM we are looking to fill two year Chair and Secretary positions, as well as a one year Treasurer position. Nominations can be forwarded to [email protected], up to and including the day of the AGM, which is October 7th, 2020. Looking forward to hopefully welcoming new PAC members.

We're in the home stretch now!

Do you have questions for us? Your PAC has been in continuous contact with the school administration throughout this pandemic and we are here to help if we can. Please message on FB or email [email protected] Stay safe and be well!