Mission StatementWalton Elementary School PAC's mission is to advocate for excellence in education, the safety and well being of our students, and for the effective and meaningful involvement of parents as partners.
To contact anyone in the PAC executive please email waltonpac@gmail.com
To see a list of who is holding PAC positions Click Here
Our By-LawsPlease click here to see the Walton PAC Bylaws.
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PAC MeetingsAll parents/guardians of children at Walton are welcome to attend!
PAC meetings for the 2017-2018 school year are: September 18, 2017 October 17, 2017 November 27, 2017 January 23, 2018 February 26, 2018 April 9, 2018 May 7, 2018 (AGM) June 19, 2018 The meetings are at 6:45 pm in the school library. Minutes from each PAC meeting will be e-mailed to all parents. Child-minding (for potty-trained children over age three) is provided during the meeting.
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What We Do...
The Walton PAC is an active group and welcomes new volunteers and ideas to better support our children and school.
Initiatives run by the PAC include:
Initiatives run by the PAC include:
- Regular PAC Meetings (8 per year) – These meetings are not just for PAC business and planning but are an important communication point with the school. We encourage you to come out.
- After School Activity Programs – A variety of programs (including academic, arts, science and sports) are offered over three sessions through the year. Over a third of our students take advantage of these programs.
- Emergency Supplies – The PAC maintains, organizes and purchases emergency supplies – we hope we will never need these supplies but if we do, we are ready.
- Gardening Program – The PAC funds and has been instrumental in bringing the gardening program and gardening boxes (by the upper playground) to Walton. This year four divisions took part in this program where they learned about seeds, plants, soil, worms and more. They also learned about healthy cooking and how the plants they grow turn into food on the table. Click for details
- Newsletters, Website, and Weekly Mouthful (email) - To keep our parent community up to date, we have a website, a monthly newsletter, and a weekly email.
- Classroom Liaisons – The PAC facilitates the election of classroom liaisons for each class. This supports and encourages easier communication with the teachers and within the class parent community.
- Multicultural Support – The PAC recognizes that Walton is made up of families from a diverse group of cultures and languages. We have volunteer multicultural liaisons who translate PAC communications and make recommendations on how best to reach our entire parent/guardian community.
- Community Building Events – This year the PAC put on a Swap Meet/Sale and the Monster Mash Halloween Family Dance. The previous two years we have held a large spring community event (Mother’s Day Tea afternoon event and the Sip N Savour evening event). These are popular community building events and important fundraisers for us and they are a lot of fun!
- Traffic Safety – PAC volunteers help keep our children safe before and after school by monitoring the parking lot and supervising and training teams of Grade 5 students to control the crosswalk.
- Hot Lunches – The PAC offered 11 hot lunches and raised over $5800. New entrees were offered including Flying Wedge pizza, Subway sandwiches, Moa Box sushi, Fuel Catering pastas, and Taco Del Mar tacos and burritos. A new on-line ordering system was also introduced.
- Movie Nights – Popular events with the children and great fundraisers for the PAC.
- Supplemental Workshops – The PAC will periodically bring in workshops for children such as sexual health workshops and boys & girls empowerment workshops. These are entirely optional and run on a cost recovery basis.
- Fundraising Events to support initiatives at the school. These fundraisers are the monetary engine that allow the PAC to financially support activities at the school.
- Read-a-thon to support our school library (over $14000 raised) Click for details
- Entertainment book sales
- Family photo nights
- Sports day concession
- Winter concert bake sale
- Popcorn, freezie and ice-cream sales
- Support School Needs and Activities. The PAC fundraising enables us to support our school and students financially by funding items and events including:
- Library books
- Fieldtrip bus funding
- Upper and lower playground equipment (the upper playground was replaced in 2015)
- Continued support of technology in our classrooms - click for details
- Classroom smartboards
- Classroom document cameras and projectors
- Kindergarten iPads
- Classroom support funds to enable teachers to purchase classroom supplies
- Performances brought in by the school
- Classroom area rugs
- Support bursaries to ensure all children can take part in activities
- and more
Multicultural
Diversity and inclusion are the cornerstone of what makes the Walton school community a special place. We recognize that members of our learning community represent a variety of ages, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. We celebrate the similarities and differences in our school community through potluck events, cultural performances, after school activities and parent orientation events.
Walton PAC Executive 2017/18
Every parent/guardian who has a child currently enrolled at Walton Elementary as a student is a member of Walton PAC. Below are the PAC members who have been elected as officers of the PAC for the school year of 2016/17.
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APresident (co-chair)
Philippa Seagrave-Pride Justina Mark Treasurer (co-chair) Kerry Stinson Yvonne Chow Secretary Lesley Russell Leah Hamer DPAC Representative Ernest Wu and Anna Teglasi Fundraising Coordinators (co-chair) Fiona Chan Vincci Mytkowicz Movie Night Coordinator Sue Yee Chan Entertainment Book Coordinator Justina Mark Fiona Chan Swap Meet Coordinators Ivonne Kho Lynn Truong Large Event Coordinator To be filled Garden Program Coordinator Alex Tung Winter Bake Sale Coordinator (co chair) Erin Ruggeri Ingrid Doerkson Parent Education To be filled |
Health and Safety Coordinator (co-chair)
Rene and Monica Norena Hot Lunch Coordinator (co-chair) Connie Wong Fanny Tian After School Programs (co-chair) Lynn Truong Debra Huang Meryl Hamdillah Communications Coordinator Michael Fox Classroom Liaison Coordinator Ivonne Kho Website Manager (co-chair) Fabricio Kruel (english) Kate Kuifang (mandarin) Newsletter Editor/Monday Mouthful Alicja Lenarczyk Anjana Moitra-Ohri Social Media Manager Timir Patel Multicultural Liaison Ernest Wu General Traffic Coordinator To be filled Grade 5 Traffic Coordinator Zac Jacobson Sunshine Committee Pamela Chan Social Coordinator Ingrid Doerksen |
