Attendees: Keith MacAskill, Audrey Ross, Rachel Byrne, Julie Moran,
Bernadette Wheatley, Fiona Ferguson
Apologies: Avrix Knox, Christine Fairbairn, Debbie Innes, Amanda Arkell, Vicky Carr,
Anne Williamson, Tammy Laird, Scott Ferguson
■ Introduction/Welcome
Keith welcomed and thanked everyone for coming to the meeting.
■ Amendment to Minutes of 25 February 2009
A proposal has not been put forward to Grounds for Learning for a wooden play area in the playground. The area with the wooden snake is currently being looked at, at the front of the school, and perhaps the school may access Grounds for Learning funds to help improve the area.
■ Headteacher’s Update/Report
I attach a copy of this for your information. As you can see this also covers some of the outstanding/action points from our last meeting, i.e. Community Council Planning Group donation received by the school, as video presentation done by children on the village of Cowie. Also access to the school from the Community Centre has been restored.
■ P7’s Leavers and Dance-Fit Day
Rachel spoke about the P7 leaver’s party and Dance-Fit Day. She had previously issued an update to all on the Parent Council about these events to keep everyone in the loop.
P7 Leaver’s Party
The children had decided they wanted to go to Megazone and then onto Pizza Hut. Rachel looked into the costings for this which you all have a copy of. We opted for Buzz, which is the new laser/soft play complex recently opened in Falkirk. The date for this party has been set for Thursday 25 June and a communication will be sent by Rachel to the children in P7 so that we can finalise numbers/cost.
Action - Audrey will communicate this event to all staff at the school, as they may wish to attend the meal at Pizza Hut. If any member of the Parent Council is interested in attending, please contact Rachel to let her know.
It was also decided that we wouldn’t go to the expense of purchasing disposable cameras for the P7 leaver’s party. Instead Audrey suggested that we use the school’s digital camera/flip video.
We spoke about buying autograph books as a gift for the P7’s. After looking into this, the cost was £1.79 + V.A.T. per book and a small delivery charge. The group agreed this was a good idea and the children could use the books on their last day to get teachers/friends autographs and messages.
Action – Julie has agreed to order the autograph books and Audrey has agreed to arrange for a photo of the P7’s to be taken to put in the inside cover of the books. Rachel agreed to organise certificates for the P7 children so they can be presented to them along with the autograph books at their last assembly. Bernadette will also liase with Rachel to arrange the certificates.
Dance-Fit Day
Again details of this event, following a previous meeting with members of the fund raising group that attended, have been communicated to you by Rachel. As you know this event is to try and help raise funds for the Parent Council, which will be used towards school resources and to subsidise future trips etc.
A letter and sponsor form has since been issued to every child at the school and nursery, which gives further information. Audrey has kindly agreed to facilitate this danceathon event, with assistance from Active Stirling. As you know, all children who return their sponsor sheet and money will be entered into a free prize draw, to win a school shirt signed by the Scotland Football Team.
Action - Rachel is trying to source bottled water for this event. She will also contact the Eastside News to try and arrange press coverage of this event. Julie will communicate with Airth Primary School, as they have a moveable stage which they have kindly agreed to let us use on the day.
If you can volunteer your help on the day this would be much appreciated.
■ A.O.B.
1. Rachel and Julie spoke about the Parental Involvement Conference, which they attended with Amanda on 23 May 2009. David Cameron hosted this event and spoke about the Curriculum for Excellence, attempts to develop this, why change the way children learn, engaging parents in Curriculum for Excellence, and showcasing Curriculum for Excellence using Riverside Primary School as an example. There was also an opportunity to ask questions and for small group discussions.
Lesley-Anne Livesey, who helped organise this event, has collated the action points and these will be circulated once available.
2. A National Parent Conference: Making Partnership Work, is being held at Hampden Park in Glasgow on Saturday 13 June 2009. I have circulated copies of this event to those on
e-mail to see if interested in attending. If you want paper copies of the information about this event if you are thinking of going, please let Julie know ASAP.
3. Keith spoke about meetings that he and other parents had attended about the transition from P7 to Bannockburn High School. He mentioned to the group how useful he and others found the meetings and it’s a good way to get involved with the transition. He encouraged us to attend these in the future, if we get chance to.
Keith also spoke about the lollipop crossing cover which was secured, following Anne’s husband who recently passed away. We agreed that we would send a card to Anne, from the school and parent council, at this sad time to let her know that we are thinking of her.
4. Audrey asked if the Parent Council would like to organise and produce a calendar, which would be issued to all parents at the start of the new school term and would include dates of all planned events taking place at the school throughout the year.
Action – Audrey will pass the dates to the Parent Council by the start of the summer holidays and Rachel agreed to get an example of this calendar from Bannockburn Primary, as they do something similar.
Audrey has also asked that we think about disco dates for 2009/2010, avoiding certain school dates. Any future fund-raising events will need to be considered and slotted into the calendar once it’s available.
■ Dates of Next Meetings
The dates of the next meetings are as follows;
2 September 2009 – AGM (Annual General Meeting)
18 November 2009
3 February 2010
21 April 2010
2 June 2010
Sunday, 14 June 2009
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