HEAD TEACHER'S REPORT JANUARY 2012

Parent Council – 11^th January 2012

Headteacher’s report

Staffing

Miss Black has returned this week.

Budget

School fund – grant monies have been paid in and some fundraising has been completed – balance is around £6000 which includes Dalguise monies.

CRAG

Christmas party went well. Prize winners for the logo competition have been announced and prizes will be given at an assembly.

Building work

Since last meeting works completed are:

· Fencing

· Car park has been re-tarred

Still to be completed:

· gates

· some ground works

· some guttering

We still have an ongoing problem with the roof leaking above the staff room, and a problem with drainage behind the link corridor.

Christmas show

Feedback was very good (including a letter form Norbord) with only one or two suggestions – better lighting, sound quality. Most people thought the whole school show was a good idea, some staff are not sure. Some parents did not send their children to the evening performance which had an impact on the show.

Communication with parents

E-mail addresses have been collected and some letters etc have gone out. Numbers for texts are now in the system.

Health and Safety

Traffic management meeting – following a number of concerns raised by parents and staff there will be a traffic management meeting in the school on 2^nd February at 9.30 to which all parents will be invited. The purpose of the meeting is to look at traffic issues around the school and agree a traffic plan which will be distributed to parents.

Parent information evening

We have a parent information evening in the diary for 1^st May. We are planning that we will cover a curricular issue, present the active learning leaflet and have a “market place” set up to include educational psychologist service, school meals, health partners etc.

HEAD TEACHER'S REPORT

Parent Council – 5^th October 2011

Headteacher’s report

Staffing

No changes

Budget

Items purchased:

· New dining room furniture

· Whiteboards and computers for 2 classrooms

School funds have paid for the works to the grounds and the grant payments have now replaced around 50% of the funds used. We will be fundraising next term – Christmas show and raffle.

Building work

Refurbishments works still to be completed:-

· Fencing and gates

· Ground works

· Guttering

We have an ongoing problem with the roof leaking above the staff room, and a problem with drainage behind the link corridor.

Open afternoon

The event was well attended and we received positive feedback from visitors.

Standards and Quality Report

The report has been completed, read by the authority and will go out soon.

Communication with parents

E-mail addresses are being collected so letter etc can be sent electronically and up to date mobile numbers, ahead of any adverse weather.

Website update

The Communications team have taken on responsibility; new items have been added and the group will keep the site up to date with news etc

Green Flag

We are delighted to have been awarded our green flag, the pole is ordered and the flag has been sent to us.

When doing a whole school litter pick prior to the visit, we were all shocked by the number of cigarette ends in the grounds.

Health and Safety

· Following the completion of the refurbishment we have renewed our fire exit procedures and practiced them.

· We had a near miss in the car park recently and have asked that no parents or children come into school via the car park. We ask the Parent Council to support us in this. The JRSO group will be asked to campaign about this on behalf of the school.

Next term:

· Parents evenings – all parents will be invited to both November and March evenings. Possible launch of active learning leaflet?

· Max in the Middle for P6 pupils

· Christmas show will be a whole school production with P6 taking the lead. Work on it will start after the October break.

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!