St Mungo's Academy

Parent Council Meeting

21^st November 2016

7pm

Attendees: AMilton; DCurrie; JBradley; JHillhouse; JMcInlay; PMcWatt

Other invitees: MRoach

Minute:

1. Prayer

1. Establishing the Council:

   Purpose of St Mungo’s Academy Parent Council will:

• Engage the parent forum to identify what they require to work well in partnership with the school to improve outcomes for our children;
• Support parents to know, understand and engage with the work of the school;
• Engage with the local community;
• Focus on bringing out the best of our young people.

1. Practicalities: roles, responsibilities and meetings

   Office Bearers

   The following parents agreed to take on the following roles:

• Secretary - Joanne
• Treasurer - Jacqueline
• Chairperson - Jim
• Vice chair - Donald

  The Parent Council will communicate through the following channels:

• Letters;
• A parent council email address;
  • (stmungosacademypc@gmail.com)
• A parent council Facebook and Twitter presence;
  • https://www.facebook.com/SMAparentcouncil/ 
  • https://twitter.com/stmungosacpc / (@stmungosacpc)
• Parent Council Leaflet;
• Parents area on school website;
• Through the school office (dookit).

Immediate focus:

The Parent Council will focus on engaging with the parent forum to increasing its membership and to identify priority areas of interest or concern for parents. To do this, the Council will look to:

• Attend S3 and S1 parents nights
• Canvass and survey he parent forum (money available for translators)
• Canvass student council
• Supported study and expectations

   

  Finance

  A bank account exists for the Parent Council with a current balance of approximately £2000.

   

  Training

  Training opportunities and support for Parent Council members is available.

   

1. Consultation: Vision, Values and Aims

   AMilton distributed the latest version of the school’s Vision, Values and Aims document for the Council to review and provide feedback at the next meeting.

    

2. AOCB

Actions:

• S3 parents night: Jacqueline/Donald (28/11/16 – 4.30-6.30)
• S1 parents night: Jim/Joanne (5/12/16 – 4.30-6.30)
• Produce draft Parent Council Leaflet – Joanne to email all members to review (by Friday 25/11/16)
  The leaflet will include:
  1. Introduction and statement of purpose
  2. Facebook / twitter account link
  3. Outlook account - Joanne
  4. Invitation to invite more parents to participate
• Email, facebook and twitter accounts to be created – Joanne
• Email addresses, minute and school logo to be distributed to all members - Paul
• Dates of meetings (all Mondays at 7pm in the school) – Donald to check with rota:

• 16th January
• 13^th February
• 13^th March
• 24^th April
• 15^th May
• 12^th June