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“The Best for Each Student”
How do I become a member?
Complete the Hugh Beaton Home & School Association Membership Form by using the following link:
What is a Home & School Association?
A Home & School Association is an independent voice of parents who actively support public education at the school, school board, and provincial level.
A network of volunteer members that provide support, training, resources, and advice to ensure that education, health, safety, and the social well-being of children and youth are a made a priority.
What does Hugh Beaton's Home & School Association do?
- Promote the welfare of children and youth
- Raise the standards of home life
- Promote the care and protection of children and youth
- Foster co-operation between parents and teachers, in the training and guidance of children and youth, both during and after the school period
- Obtain the best for each child according to his physical, mental, social and spiritual needs
- Give parents an understanding of the school and its work and to assist in interpreting the school in all its aspects to the public
- Confer and co-operate with organizations other than schools which concern themselves with the care and training of children and youth in the home, the school and the community: and with the education of adults to meet these responsibilites
- Foster high ideals of citizenship and to promote through educational means international goodwill and peace
- Provide the best learning environment for all children to succeed in
- Support our schools and education
Why become a Member?
Membership Privileges:
- Receive minutes of Home & School Association meetings;
- Voting privileges at Home & School Association meetings (budget & financials, minutes, bylaws, executive elections, resolutions at the provincial level, other motions as brought forth);
- Provides the assocaiton with more votes at the OFHSA Annual Meeting;
- Privilege of attending the OFHSA Conference & Annual Meeting at a reduced registration rate (workshops, networking, recognition, fundraising info and free samples). The registration fee, meals and accommodations for voting delegates may be paid in whole or in part by the Home & School Association and should be included in the budget approved by the membership;
- Liability insurance coverage while part.
What is included in the membership fee:
- The OFHSA Membership Fee covers: liability insurance; mailings; print materials; the costs of advocacy; and other administrative costs at OFHSA, a registered charitable orgnization;
- An OFHSA membership card will be sent to you;
- Membership is not required to volunteer at the shcool;
- Any person welcome to attend assocaiton meetings; however, non-members do not have voting privileges.
Can I attend Home & School Meetings?
Yes, Hugh Beaton Home & School meetings are open to all persons age 18 years and older, to attend Hugh Beaton’s, interested in the welfare of children and youth. Right of voting, nomination, and holding of office is limited to members in good standing.
2020-2021 Meeting Dates/ Locations:
All Hugh Beaton Home & School Association meetings will be held in Hugh Beaton’s school library, on the following dates:
Monday, September 28th, 2020 @ 7:00pm
Monday, November 9th, 2020 @ 7:00pm
Monday, February 8th, 2021 @ 7:00pm
Monday, April 12th, 2021 @ 7:00pm
Monday, May 10th, 2021 @ 7:00pm
Monday, June 21st, 2021 @ 7:00pm
2021/2022 Dates to be determined in September 2021.