DRAFT
Minutes
RATHO PRIMARY SCHOOL
PARENT COUNCIL & PTA
Minutes of joint meeting on Tuesday 15th
January 2013 at 7.30pm & PC Meeting following
Present: *Melanie
McCallum (“MM”), *Ruth
Gillan (Interim PC Chair) (“RG”),
Helen MacGregor (PTA Chair),
*Neil Langhorn (PC member) (“NL”),
Mrs Smith, *Annette Wilson (PC
Treasurer) (“AW”), Rachel Tulloch,
Morag Dalton, Jackie Wake, *Mrs McGlynn (“CM”),
Brenda Binnie, *Chris Cartwright (“CC”),
& *Christine Paterson (PC Secretary) (“CP”).
Apologies:
Bobby Smith, Sarah Hall, Emer Grimley, Michaela Muir, Lisa McCarthy,
Councillors.
Note: those asterisked
attended the separate PC meeting which followed the joint meeting.
Joint meeting
CM reported on various
school matters:
Staffing: Mrs
Nicolson is teaching P2. Mr Letham is covering Science, PE &
Support for Learning. Interviews for the Nursery teacher are taking
place on 16 January. Mr Samson will cover that post meantime (except
Thursdays). The Principal Teacher job is being advertised.
CM is organising
next year’s P7 camp. She is working on a payment plan for that.
Parent Night on
Sexual Health & Relationships: Monday 28 January.
The school received
a grant of £350 from the Forestry Commission. Gus the janitor has
built planters and trellis for the infant playground. Mrs Hall is
getting in touch with the Garden Group for their help in filling
these. The work will be done along with the children. Nicola Mowat
is arranging for some free compost to be delivered.
The Community Health
Group will meet on 1 February in the GP room.
Ideas are being
sought for the school’s 30 year anniversary celebrations.
PTA report (HM):
The family ceilidh
is coming up: 1 February.
Other upcoming
events: Spring Fair.
The PTA will also be
talking about the P7 Leavers’ event.
PC report:
CM
advised that she wants to do an audit of Communications generally and
plans to collect email addresses from parents/carers so she can send
a link to the Friday note. Of course we must always remember that
not all parents/carers have internet access.
PC
meeting
Present: those asterisked
above.
1. New Headteacher
Welcome to Mrs McGlynn. She explained
that she sees parents as an untapped resource and wants to make more
use of us!
There was general discussion around the
role of the PC going forward. What do we want our school to be like
in say 5 years’ time? Could a joint vision between school & PC
be developed?
It was suggested that CM could advise
the PC of where she wants input eg a current hot topic. CM is happy
for us to feed into the school Improvement Plan.
Going forward the PC has lots to think
about, including its relationship with the PTA.
The PC also needs to think about
adjusting the numbers provided for in its constitution.
2. Village Christmas Tree
We had a debrief on this.
The overall feeling was that it was very worthwhile, especially in
creating links with those in the wider community who came along on
the night, and we can build on what was done in 2012 for Christmas
this year.
3.
Comms sub-group
They plan to meet next
week.
4. Road Safety in Ratho
Various issues were discussed. AW said
she would co-ordinate putting together a sub-group, to involve eg
Bobby & Jayne Smith, PC people, Over 50s group, RDCC, Ratho
Environment Group, the police, the wider community etc.
5. Orchard update
NL is organising a pruning session,
before mid to late March.
6. New PC Chair
NL agreed to take this on with
immediate effect and was widely congratulated/thanked! RG was
thanked for all her hard work in the role. RG is to email Wendy
Gray.
NL should be a signatory on the PC bank
account.
7. Next meeting
Tuesday 5 February 2013
at 7.30pm.
