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.