If you are interested, please email us at fhshomeandschool@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Parents, Grandparents and community members are all welcome. Even if you have never attended a meeting, we value everyone’s opinions and ideas.

Hope to see everyone there!

Thursday, November 26, 3:30pm

Forest Hills School Theatre

Admission: $3/person or $10/family

Popcorn: $1/bag Juice boxes: $0.50/box

Thursday, October 15th, 3:30pm

Forest Hills School Theatre

Admission: $3/person or $10/family

Popcorn: $1/bag Juice boxes: $0.50/box

Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009
Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm
Location: Forest Hills School

If you are interested in reserving a table, please email April Vincent at april_doucette@ rogers.com

Grand Prize
$500 Canadian Tire Gift Card: Dorothy Soucy

Top Seller
We had a tie for top seller and therefore gave both students a $100 Canadian Tire Gift Card
Winners: MacKenzie Allen & Breann MacRae

Random Draw Winners
We drew 3 student names to each receive a $50 Canadian Tire Gift Card
Winners: Emilee Morrell, Braedon Beebe, & Mariah Defazio

Thanks to the huge support of our school community, we were able to raise just over $5000!!!!! This means we are able to purchase one smart board and are well on our way to purchasing a second.

THANK YOU!!!!!

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The Forest Hills Home and School Association is currently fund-raising to purchase Smart Boards for our school. Smart Boards are interactive whiteboards used with computers and projectors. They allow students to move around words, answer questions, and make notes that can be saved for a future lesson.

We are selling tickets on a $500 Canadian Tire Gift card.

We are also hoping to spark a little friendly competition by offering a $100 Canadian Tire Gift Card to the student who sells the most tickets.

In addition every child who sells any tickets will have their name put in for a draw for 1 of 3 $50 Canadian Tire Gift Cards.

Every student will receive 1 book of 10 tickets to bring home. All monies and unused tickets should be returned to their teacher no later than Monday, October 26th.

Thursday, September 24th, 3:30pm

Forest Hills School Theatre

Admission: $3/person  or  $10/family

Popcorn: $1/bag      Juice boxes:  $0.50/box

We started the year with a brand-new executive.  The elected executive is:  Joanne Masson, President; Sarah Ingalls, Vice-President; Louise Elliott, Secretary and April Beals, Treasurer.  We all were a little nervous with over 700 students in our K-8 school.  We jumped right in.

Our membership drive began on our open house in September.  We had a table set up trying to let parents know what we are about and requesting names for volunteering.  We also sent out forms for members at the beginning of the year.  We currently have 23 paid members out of which we have 10 active members.

Volunteer Activities

Our paid members throughout the year are involved daily in the school.  Our total of volunteer hours would be approximately 354 hours for all our members.  We are responsible for supervising milk for lunch and breakfast, tutoring, making ice packs, cutting laminating and distributing fluoride.  We offer breakfast boxes containing dry cereal, raisins, apple sauce, pretzels, cheese & crackers, and fruit leathers.  Our members purchase all items and fill these boxes weekly.  We also collect money for our hot lunch program weekly, which we offer everyday of the week.  Our members also serve the lunch.

Forest Hills has a book fair during both Parent-teacher days and one in June.  Our members help with set up and work this book fair.

The school has an annual flea market which we help with set-up and work.  This raises money to help fellow students whose families need a little help for Christmas.

Fundraising

We had a Lovable Labels campaign in the beginning of the year held over from last year.  This was not very successful.  We held monthly movie days which bring in around $120 monthly.  We provide popcorn for $1 and juice boxes for $0.50.  We had a Fun Pasta Campaign before Christmas which was successful.  We raised a little over $1600.  May 1^st we just began a Canadian Tire Money campaign.  We are asking students to collect Canadian Tire money and send it to the school.  Depending on how much we collect, we will either purchase items for the gym and/or buy a big item to sell raffle tickets on.  The class that raises the most will receive an ice cream party.

Our proudest moment this year would be a combined fundraiser we had with Glen Falls School for one of our students, Ben Bridges, who needed a heart transplant.  We helped with a steak n’ stein at the Three Mile Tavern and an auction which raised a lot of money to help his family’s costs for traveling to Toronto.  He had his transplant, recovered nicely, and managed to play hockey for our Forest Hills Falcons in March & April.

Contributions

Our biggest donation this year would be $1,100 toward a new scoreboard for the gym.  Our students successfully fundraised all year for the board and had $1,100 left to meet the $8,500 price tag.  We were very happy we could help.

During Christmas concerts, we offered apple juice and gingerbread cookies to our visiting families and friends free of charge.

In April, the school had a Literacy night titled “Pajama Jam”. We provided apples, orange slices, cookies, juice and milk for a snack while literacy activities were done.

In June,  our school held our annual fun days and we  provided a variety of frozen treats for the students and staff.

TSAW: Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week

This year for TSAW we provided a tea in the middle of the week with sweets, fruit trays, and tea provided by our school’s parents and Home and School while our local Java Moose donated coffee.  Everyday, for five days, we had prizes drawn for all teachers and staff (8-9 prizes daily) which we either purchased or donated.  The grand prize of a one-hour massage was drawn at the end of the week.  It was donated by local massage therapist, Kim Elliott, RMT.

We had a very busy year with lots of ups and downs.  To everyone who helped whether you are a member, non-member, or teacher/staff, we thank you.  We hope you all experience success.

Respectfully submitted,