Parent Council Meeting - Minutes 18 November 2009

Minutes of meeting on Wednesday 18 November 2009

Attendees: Audrey Ross, Anne Williamson, Michelle McArthur, Barbara, Tammy Sherry Houlihan, Jeff McGhie, Julie Moran, Debbie Innes

Apologies: Rachel Byrne, Vicky Carr, Avril Knox, Amanda Arkell


■ Introduction/Welcome

Jeff thanked everyone for coming to the meeting.

■ Amend and Approve minutes from last meeting on 7 October 2009

No amendments made and minutes approved.

Anne Williamson confirmed the amount of £193.35 raised from Halloween Disco.

■ Headteacher’s Report/Update

Attached for your information.

■ Update about Healthy Tuckshop

Some members of the Parent Council have agreed to oversee and run this on a trail basis to see how it works. A taster session will be held at school during break time on Friday 18 December. All children will be able to taste some healthy fruity snacks and shakes that will be made available, and will receive a leaflet with further details about the tuckshop. We plan to run this every Friday after the Christmas break and will report back to the group on how this is going at our next meeting. We hope to get other available parent helpers involved to help out with this on a rota basis.

■ Fundraising/Event Update

Nothing to report.

Mrs Ross suggested at the meeting and in her update that we have a think about running an event for parents, i.e. ‘Yummy Mummy’ night, or coffee mornings. The group agreed to consider this for the following term.

■ A.O.B

1. The group asked Mrs Ross if photo calendars of the children in their costumes would be on sale again at the Christmas Concert.

Action – Mrs Ross agreed to speak to Mrs Stubberfield who helped organise this last time.

2. Mrs Ross spoke about the Transition Group (from primary to high school) which will start up again in January 2010 and parent volunteers from P6/P7 will be needed.

3. Debbie mentioned the steps which lead from the school to Scotstoun Road, as they are in a very poor state of repair and could cause an accident.

Action – Mrs Ross will look into this and report back to the group with her findings at our next meeting.

■ Date of Next Meeting

The date of our next meeting is Wednesday 3 February 2010 at 7pm in the school. Hope to see you all there. Please pass your agenda items to Julie Moran before this meeting! Mrs Ross can you please orgainse the let for this meeting.
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HEADTEACHERS REPORT

Parent Council Meeting
18th November 2009

Mrs Ross suggested that the order of the meeting should be as follows:

Apologies
Minutes should be read and approved.
Matters Arising from Minutes should be gone over
Any Standing items to be included
Finance
HT Report
Fundraising Committee
AOCB

HT Report

IWB installed in P4 – only one for P3 required now cost £2750 plus a desktop at £415, plus a license approximately £3225

Refurbishment – Upper cloakroom now finished although more coat pegs are required. New toilets also operational.

Christmas Concert – letter re. tickets will be issued tomorrow (Thursday 19th Nov), ticket allocation by 27th November, then all extra tickets will go on sale. Raffle tickets will also be issued. Raffle will be drawn at the evening performance.

E mail – trying to put more and more out by e mail or placing on the school website.

Sports Awards Evening – 25th November

Remembrance service – held jointly with St. Margaret’s on November 11th at War Memorial

Initiatives for Parent Council
Tuck Shop
Fundraising ?
Parents’ Coffee Morning – monthly, termly?

School Fundraising
Fun Day in June as always
Events team to organise a school sponsored event
Comic Relief event