PARENT COUNCIL MEETING 5 OCTOBER 2011

Cowie Primary School Parent Council

Meeting Wednesday 5^th October 2011

• Attendees and Apologies

Attendees: Jeff McGhie (Chair), Anne Williamson (Treasurer), Tammy Pollock, Barbara, Amanda Arkell, Vivienne Innes (Headteacher), Julie Moran (Secretary), Drew Yule (Guest)

Apologies: Avril Knox, Michelle McArthur, Christine Fairbairn, Sherry Houlihan

Jeff welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked them for attending.

• Drew Yule – Community Worker (Cowie Community Planning Group)

Drew spoke to us about the Cowie Community Plan and the ideas put forward for future projects in the village, from a variety of sources following a previous community survey. He was looking to recruit new members to help drive this forward and to make it happen. I have passed the names of those who volunteered to Drew and I’m sure he’ll be in touch in the near future.

• Head Teacher’s Report

I have attached a copy of this for your information.

• Fundraising

Financially we are not in a position to organise a bingo night at the present time. Therefore, it was decided that we would go ahead with the sponsored event just now. The Dance-Fit Day will take place on Friday 28 October 2011 and details of this will be issued to parents soon. The school (teachers and children) are prepared to run with this event and will organise the dance routines, music and timings for classes on the day. The Parent Council will support this and will arrange for refreshments to be served. We plan to run this outside, but in the event of wet weather it will be located in the gym hall.

• Any Other Business

We spoke about arrangements for the Halloween Disco on Wednesday 26 October. It was agreed the times would be the same as previous discos, 6.00 - 7.15pm for infants and 7.30 - 8.45pm for older children, and the ticket price would remain at £2.00. Julie agreed to ask Gavin if he was available to do the disco, Mrs Innes will organise the let for the school, Amanda will organise games and prizes, Julie will do the communication to parents and ask Rachel if she can run off the tickets. Julie will ask Avril, Michelle and Christine to organise juice, snacks, cups, apples etc. Anne and a couple of other parent helpers volunteered to sell the tickets in the school, from Thursday 20 October. Mrs Innes will invite staff and arrange for accident report to be available on the night.

Of course it will be ‘all hands on deck’ and we will ask for parent volunteers to help at the disco.

• Date of Next Meeting

The date of our next meeting is on Wednesday 30 November 2011. See you all there!