DRAFT
Minutes
RATHO PRIMARY SCHOOL
PARENT COUNCIL & PTA
Minutes of joint meeting on Tuesday 5th
February 2013 at 7.30pm & PC Meeting following
Present: *Annette
Wilson (PC Treasurer) (“AW”), Jackie
Wake, Jenni Belfall, *Mrs McGlynn (“CM”), Brenda Binnie (“BB”),
*Chris Cartwright (“CC”), *Lisa
McCarthy (“LM”), *Sarah Hall &
*Christine Paterson (PC Secretary) (“CP”).
Apologies:
Neil Langhorn (“NL”), Helen MacGregor (“HM”) Ruth
Gillan, Melanie McAllan,
Mrs Smith, Bobby
Smith, Emer Grimley, Michaela Muir, Councillors.
Note: those asterisked
attended the separate PC meeting which followed the joint meeting.
Joint meeting
PTA report (BB):
PC report (AW):
The Comms sub-group
are to meet before the end of the month.
Road safety: AW is
to co-ordinate a group, involving people from Ratho Environment
Group, the Over 50s, JRSOs, RDCC etc. She wants to keep it fairly
small to start with.
School update (CM):
CM has met with HM
to discuss how they will work together. Going forward there will be
more focus on the specific purpose of the fundraising. CM also plans
to meet with NL as PC Chair.
In the Nursery she
is using funding to buy “puddle suits” for outdoor play. She
wants to develop the garden to include a roofed area with a sandpit
and seating around. She also plans to create an eco water wall and
to increase the number of story sacks.
The interviews for
the Principal Teacher post have concluded and an offer has been
made. Hopefully the new person will start after Easter.
The new Nursery
Teacher is also in place, hopefully to start 25 February.
CM has had a good
response to the request to parents/carers for email addresses to
email a link to the Friday note.
CM wants to set up a
Communication & Vision Focus Group, comprising: 1 person from
the Comms sub group (which has PC & PTA members), 1 teacher, 1
learning assistant & 1 pupil. The first task will be an audit
of communications generally.
Item carried forward to
next meeting: appointment of a PC/PTA rep on the Community Health
Group.
PC
meeting
Present: those asterisked
above.
1. Road safety
AW has already reported on this in the
joint meeting. CP advised that Councillor Bill Henderson is keen to
get involved in anything we do and she will forward his email of last
night to AW.
A couple of further road safety
concerns were raised with CM:
There was an incident recently
where a bin lorry reversed into the school driveway as school was
starting and children were about. There are 2 issues: it should not
be coming to the school at that time and whenever it is reversing,
one of the workers should be at the back of the lorry directing the
driver. This seems to be acknowledged by the Council.
The lollipop lady at School Wynd
spends a lot of time chatting to people passing & cars stop at
the junction to talk to her: is there a safety issue here eg if she
did not notice a child waiting to cross? It was left with CM to
consider raising this with her line manager.
2. Treasurer’s Update (Annette
Wilson)
The £50 donation for the
Christmas Tree has been received from RDCC. The £150 has not come in
yet from Scotmid. Balances overall are fairly healthy and we should
discuss at our next meeting what to do with any excess.
Regarding the PC bank
account with RBS, it was agreed that the signatories should be
changed: Bobby Smith is no longer to be a signatory and Neil Langhorn
is to become one. Annette Wilson produced a form which needs to be
signed to effect these changes.
The authorised
signatories in the current mandate resolved that the signatories for
the Parent Council bank account as detailed in section 2 of the form
be changed in accordance with section 5 of that form, so that Bobby
Smith will cease to be a signatory and Neil Langhorn will become one.
The form was thereafter duly signed.
It was agreed that the
mandate to RBS will therefore continue as amended.
Annette Wilson was
authorised to send the signed form to the Bank.
3.
Comms sub-group
Report as above.
4. School 30th
anniversary
CM reported that the children are very
involved in the planning of this. They are looking to engage the
wider community. Events will take place in the last 2 weeks of this
term.
5. New Principal Teacher
Her role will involve Support for
Learning, French, Science and the vision for the school.
6. Meeting for Parents/carers only
of the PC (re future role of the PC)
CC agreed to conduct a doodle poll to
find a date for this.
In terms of a mailing list, those
invited should be NL, AW, CP, RG, LM, HM, Melanie McAllan, Michaela
Muir, Emer Grimley, Bobby Smith & of course CC himself.
7. AOB
Mrs Hall is resigning from the PC
after Easter; Miss Bunten will take over.
CM was asked to check on the
cleanliness of crockery/cutlery/trays for school dinners. CM
reported that she has spot-checked before and suggests that any
concerned child should come to speak to her when they have a
problem.
AW mentioned an event which is to
take place at St Thomas of Aquins High School on Tuesday 5 March
from 6pm to 9m about the new secondary school qualifications.
8. Next meeting
Tuesday 5 March 2013 at
7.30pm.