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Vancouver Mandarin School, located just a five-minute walk from Lord Tennyson, is offering two programs that we believe would greatly benefit your community: - Mandarin Immersion Summer Camp: Our summer camp provides a fun and engaging environment for children to learn Mandarin, offering them the valuable asset of language proficiency while enjoying exciting activities. - MINGLE After-School Program: Our after-school program runs from 3:30 to 5:00 pm and includes onsite pick-up at 3pm for added convenience. You can find more information about the immersion camp and MINGLE afterschool program on our website.  COPE (Coalition for Progressive Electors) has launched “The Schools We Need” Campaign and we want to work with parents, students, union groups, and the public to create actions that will achieve:
The Schools We Need Campaign begins with two components. We invite all interested parents and school community members to attend: “The Schools We Need” Town Hall Meeting Date: May 28th Time: 4 to 7 pm Place: Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Avenue, Vancouver Attendees will participate in several small table discussions highlighting current key issues facing our schools and collaborating to come up with future actions and solutions. COPE School Board Trustee, Suzie Mah will be highlighting the challenges the school district continues to face and there will be other guest speakers. Also, there will be a visual and performing arts opportunity for those who want to participate! We invite you and your members to complete our “The Schools We Need Survey”. The survey has ten questions highlighting ten key issues. Results and ideas for actions from the survey will be summarized and released to the public. The survey will close on June 30th, 2024. You can complete the survey by going to: www.copevancouver.ca/survey On behalf of COPE, we hope that you will participate and publicize these two activities to your members. Let’s work together and build the schools that our students need. Tanya Webking, COPE Co-Chair Shawn Vulliez, COPE Co-Chair The BCCPAC Annual General Meeting is May 4 & 5th in Richmond. DPAC is sending a representative and the Lord Tennyson PAC will send our proxy vote with the DPAC representative.
Details of the candidates for BCCPAC positions to be voted on and the 14 proposed resolutions (at the time of the DPAC general meeting April 25) are included in the booklet.https://bccpac.bc.ca/images/AGM/2024_AGM_Booklet.pdf. A list of candidates can be found on p. 19 with more details on the following pages. The following resolutions can be found beginning on page 42 of the 2024 AGM booklet. Lord Tennyson PAC will use a proxy vote, signed over to the DPAC representative attending. At this time, the plan is to vote as outlined below, this is in line with the DPAC vote. We are open to feedback from the parent community. We have highlighted one resolution that may require further discussion and welcome this if you run into one of us this week, or via email at [email protected].
Cheers, Trish Tennyson PAC DPAC Rep We are looking for an older, independent, and responsible kid that can walk our child home after school for 3 ~ 4 days a week starting in September 2024.
Our child will be in Grade 5 in the upcoming September. We live near Broadway & Balaclava (about 15 - 20 mins walk from school). Please contact us by email if you are interested in the position  Vancouver DPAC is proud to present an in-person parent education event. On May 7, we will have The Other People present to our community at the Prince of Wales Secondary School Auditorium at 6:45pm. This is an opportunity to hear from a local group that represents the great diversity within our district. It will help us learn how bias and discrimination function and impact those affected by it, with the goal of fostering greater understanding and acceptance for everyone. We hope that you will join us for this important and informative event.
Link to Facebook event page. What: An in-person presentation from "The Other People" for the VSB Community. A free event with childcare provided for school-aged children. When: Tuesday, May 7, 2024, doors open at 6:30 PM presentation starts at 6:45 PM, Where: Prince of Wales Secondary Auditorium, 2250 Eddington Drive, Vancouver At the April 15th General PAC meeting, there was a vote in support of sending the attached letter to the VSB Education Trustees regarding staffing conditions and more specifically the lack of support for learners with disabilities.
Unions representing teachers, SSAs, and other staff expressed their concerns about the dire situation in Vancouver schools in an open letter on February 2, 2024. Then, on February 6, 2024 the DPAC Inclusive Education Working Group (IEWG) released a letter reiterating this concern, particularly as it impacts disabled learners. (See links to these letters below.) We are adding our voices to the many schools who have already sent similar letters in an effort to bring attention to this ongoing issue. A letter from the Tennyson PAC (below) has already been sent. You are welcome to use the same letter, adapt it, or write your own letter to show your support. You can find the template here For more information: Tennyson PAC letter Joint letter/press release from VSB teacher and staff unions DPAC IEWG letter Media Thank you for all that you do to support our students!  We are super excited to put out a team for the BC Children's Hospital Fun Run on June 9 at 9am (best to arrive at 8.15ish). You can sign up for the 5k or 2K run and can choose whether you want to pay for the event or fundraise. As well as the races there is a post-race festival which is a lot of fun.
Sign up for the Tennyson Tigers team here. Please note this is a family event, children need to be accompanied by adults as the venue is incredibly busy. Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions. We hope you can join us for this fun community event. Before Covid, one of Tennyson’s major traditions was the Grade 7 Quebec trip. Since 2019, the trip has not happened and it's unclear if there will be a trip in the next few years.
Part of the framework of the Grade 7 Quebec trip was a pot of money, theTennyson Quebec Futures Fund (TQFF). The TQFF is used to provide bursaries for students who needed it for a grade 7 Quebec trip, or to make up a shortfall of funding for a trip if the school didn't receive the expected government grants. The fund currently holds approx. $87,000, and the last deposit to the TQFF was in 2017. The TQFF Committee has been working hard all year, debating options for spending the TQFF money so it benefits the majority of the school community. After long deliberations the committee determined that, at this time, there are no special projects or activities that would merit spending all the money in the TQFF fund in one go. VSB rules state that money must be fundraised for a specific purpose. Since the TQFF money was specifically fundraised as an emergency fund to pay for Quebec trips when they don't receive the government grants, or for bursaries, the Tennyson community cannot spend the money on anything else unless we vote to give it a new purpose. So, the TQFF is asking parents to vote on whether you want to keep the money in the TQFF to cover bursaries or make up for a shortfall of funding for a Quebec trip in the future, or if you want to release the money to be used for other PAC initiatives. Between April 15 and April 28, 2024 parents will have an opportunity to vote on how they would like to move forward with the TQFF. The TQFF committee is also asking parents to complete a brief, four-question, survey following your vote, that will help us better understand parent preferences. As parent voice and engagement are vital to a thriving community, we hope you can take some time to answer these important questions. Vote and complete the survey here! - you can make one vote per child that you have at Tennyson Funderland Summer Camp registration is now open. Use Promo Code #Tennyson to Claim Your Discount ! Click here to register: https://funderland.ca/summer-camp/   |
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