(all details for each event provided on the fliers available by clicking on the name of the event below)

The Sklar Principle
Tupper is hosting  The Sklar Principle on Thursday February 18th at 6:30pm.  Please see the attached PDF for more information.  Additional information regarding Peter Sklar is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sklar . RSVP is required.  Please contact Tupper to register for this workshop at (604)713-8233. 

Parent's Guide to Social Media
This workshop is to help parents better understand how their kids are using social networking and to provide them with tips and tools they can use to help them minimize negative experiences and maximize the positive opportunities that social media has to offer. Saturday Feb. 6, 2016 from 10am – 12pm at Little Mountain Neighbourhood House (3981 Main St) Contact: 604-879-7104 to register. Childminding available.

Pro D day camps
Little Mountain Neighbourhood House has more Day camps planned for upcoming Pro-D days at Hillcrest Community Centre.9am - 4pm
Ages 6-12
$30

Are you concerned about the future of Public Education in BC, and would you like to know how you can advocate for a better future? Join us for a Panel Discussion with the Public Education Network Society (PENS) on November 25. Parents/guardians from other schools are also welcome to attend this event.
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Parent Advocacy Network of Vancouver (parentadvocacynetwork@gmail.com)
We are a group of parents representing schools across Vancouver, who share a deep commitment to public education and are extremely concerned for its future. Continued cutbacks threaten to cripple an already beleaguered system and the recent recommendations in the Special Adviser's report to close schools and curtail space allotments for children would have devastating impact - all in the name of efficiency. 
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We see an urgent need for schools to connect with one another through advocacy groups to share information and support one another in standing up for public education as a fundamental human right and foundational priority in a democratic society and speak out collectively and therefore powerfully, against cutbacks and policies that are dismantling it. 

We are creating a grassroots communication network accessible by web (in progress), Google Group (in progress) and face-to-face monthly meetings to support individuals or groups in each school that are already engaged in advocacy and we welcome other schools to designate a representative through PAC to join us. 
 
Together we can share research and information about public education and current policies that impact Vancouver schools as well as upcoming advocacy initiatives happening in Vancouver. In this way we see ourselves as supporting and empowering existing groups such as FACE, PENS, DPAC, and BCCPAC in the work they are doing.  

Cheers
Andrea Sinclair
Dickens PAC Chair
for PAN team

​As Chair of Friends of the School Library (FOSL) I would like to extend an invitation to you to attend our evening celebrating National School Library Day.  
 
Liz Schulze from Cinematique will be will be speaking to us about:
 
Understanding How Media Manipulates Kids:
Critical Thinking in the School Library
Attached, please find an invitation to our event on October 28th in the Eric Hamber Library from 7 - 9 pm.
I am also asking for your assistance in getting this information out to parents and staff in your school.  If you are able to print and post the attached invitation, I would be very grateful.  Please let me know if I can be of any assistance in any way.
I hope to see you at our event!  Thank you to all T/Ls for all that you are doing, and thank you in advance for your help in getting this information to others at your school (especially during this very busy time of year!)
 
Warmly,
Carrie Bercic
FOSL Chair

A day of magic for Girls & their Champions!
A day of empowering girls as they enter adolescence. 

A handful of girls at Livingstone have attended this event and have had amazing experiences. My own daughter, Shayel, who is now at Tupper attended the very first G Day and I was there as a volunteer. It's absolutely time well spent. - Makeesha, PAC communications

Friday, October 23, 2015*
Location: Creekside Community Centre
Time: 8:45AM – 5:00PM

* *Note: October 23rd is a province-wide professional development day.

​Visit the G Day website for all the information and details.

The best defense against predators is empowered and informed kids who stick together and alert adults who look out for other's kids as well as their own.