Parent Council Meeting - 2nd February 2011
Headteacher’s report
Staffing
Cristina Press will return from maternity to P2/3 on May 30th, Jude Attwood’s contract will end.
We have 2 temporary SLA posts currently, one for 15 hours exceptional needs and one full time for the refurbishment.
School Roll
We have 30 P1 enrolments with 5 placing requests out. Class arrangements are not finalised yet. We may have 7 classes next session.
Budget
Parent Council has a budget of approx £270.00.
Refurbishment update
Phase 2a is going well, phase 2b will start shortly. Moving week should be the week beginning 14th February – this still has to be confirmed.
Use of the Community Centre is working well.
Haddens ran a safety competition for the pupils and donated £100 to the school. The winning posters are displayed in the foyer and other entries will be displayed around the school.
Literacy week
We have set up a partnership with Waterstone’s who are arranging author visits for every class, free of charge. The school will try to set up a savings club for children to purchase books from Waterstone’s when they visit the school.
Grounds
We are in the process of trying to secure some funding for the grounds project.
Credit Union
Councillor MacPherson is concerned that the pupils are not using the credit union much; we will invite someone from the credit union to talk to the pupils at an assembly.
School Improvement Plan parent focus group
The school will send out a questionnaire for parents and will collate the findings before the next Parent Council meeting so that the findings can be discussed.
Adverse weather
The Council will not be closing all schools across the authority in adverse weather conditions; decisions will be made at a local level. The school will look at setting up a texting service for parents.
Diary dates
Royal wedding will be a school holiday – 29th April.
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
MINUTES OF PARENT COUNCIL MEETING ON 2 FEBRUARY 2011
Minutes of Parent Council Meeting on 2 February 2011
Attendees: Mrs Innes, Jeff McGhie, Sherry Houlihan, Anne Williamson, Barbara,
Julie Moran
Apologies: Vicky Carr, Amanda Arkell, Christine Fairbairn, Michelle McArthur,
Avril Knox, Tammy, Debbie Innes
■ Introduction/Welcome/Previous Minutes
Minutes were approved and signed and no changes were made. Our last meeting planned for 1 December 2010 was cancelled due to extreme weather conditions. Fraser Crawford from Active Stirling was being invited to this meeting, to give us some fund raising ideas for an active sponsored event this year. We plan to contact him in future to try and arrange this.
■ Headteacher’s Report/Update
Attached for your information (copy will be given by hand if not on e-mail). The Parent Council Budget takes into account the subsidy we gave the school and nursery for Xmas Panto trips, totalling £500.00.
We discussed that it may be a good idea to target parents when already in the school at ducks cafe, class assemblies, arts and crafts etc, and get them to complete and hand back the Parent Questionnaire about the school improvement plan at that time.
Comments to be passed back to Mrs Innes about the Active Learning Information Brochure that was handed out at the meeting.
■ A.O.B
1. Barbara/Sherry mentioned the timing of the school bell, ringing earlier or later than 9am and this can vary by up to five minutes. They also mentioned children not having access to the school five minutes before the bell on a wet morning.
Action: Mrs Innes will look into this and report back.
2. Sherry agreed to design a 'Wanted' poster to try and encourage more parents to get involved with the Parent Council, as we need to recruit new parents to help run this group. She will hand this to the school to advertise.
3. The group spoke about doing a fundraiser at the end of March to boost the Parent Council funds, to subsidise future school trips/outings. We spoke about doing a Beetle Drive, which Mrs Innes has experience of running at her previous school. We will need plenty helpers to organise and run this event and Julie agreed to speak to parents to see if they can help support this event.
Action - Julie to speak to other parents to see if running this event is feasible in the timescales we spoke about. Barbara to speak to Cowie Miners Welfare re dates at the end of March to see if this venue is available. All other details re communications to parents, ticket prices and sales, advertisement of the event, prizes etc, to be organised.
■ Date of Next Meeting
The date of our next meeting is Wednesday 20 April 2011 at 7pm in the school. Please pass your agenda items to Julie Moran before this meeting! Hope to see you all there. If the Beetle Drive is to go ahead we will organise a meeting before this date to discuss arrangements.
Attendees: Mrs Innes, Jeff McGhie, Sherry Houlihan, Anne Williamson, Barbara,
Julie Moran
Apologies: Vicky Carr, Amanda Arkell, Christine Fairbairn, Michelle McArthur,
Avril Knox, Tammy, Debbie Innes
■ Introduction/Welcome/Previous Minutes
Minutes were approved and signed and no changes were made. Our last meeting planned for 1 December 2010 was cancelled due to extreme weather conditions. Fraser Crawford from Active Stirling was being invited to this meeting, to give us some fund raising ideas for an active sponsored event this year. We plan to contact him in future to try and arrange this.
■ Headteacher’s Report/Update
Attached for your information (copy will be given by hand if not on e-mail). The Parent Council Budget takes into account the subsidy we gave the school and nursery for Xmas Panto trips, totalling £500.00.
We discussed that it may be a good idea to target parents when already in the school at ducks cafe, class assemblies, arts and crafts etc, and get them to complete and hand back the Parent Questionnaire about the school improvement plan at that time.
Comments to be passed back to Mrs Innes about the Active Learning Information Brochure that was handed out at the meeting.
■ A.O.B
1. Barbara/Sherry mentioned the timing of the school bell, ringing earlier or later than 9am and this can vary by up to five minutes. They also mentioned children not having access to the school five minutes before the bell on a wet morning.
Action: Mrs Innes will look into this and report back.
2. Sherry agreed to design a 'Wanted' poster to try and encourage more parents to get involved with the Parent Council, as we need to recruit new parents to help run this group. She will hand this to the school to advertise.
3. The group spoke about doing a fundraiser at the end of March to boost the Parent Council funds, to subsidise future school trips/outings. We spoke about doing a Beetle Drive, which Mrs Innes has experience of running at her previous school. We will need plenty helpers to organise and run this event and Julie agreed to speak to parents to see if they can help support this event.
Action - Julie to speak to other parents to see if running this event is feasible in the timescales we spoke about. Barbara to speak to Cowie Miners Welfare re dates at the end of March to see if this venue is available. All other details re communications to parents, ticket prices and sales, advertisement of the event, prizes etc, to be organised.
■ Date of Next Meeting
The date of our next meeting is Wednesday 20 April 2011 at 7pm in the school. Please pass your agenda items to Julie Moran before this meeting! Hope to see you all there. If the Beetle Drive is to go ahead we will organise a meeting before this date to discuss arrangements.
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