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PARK MAINS HIGH SCHOOL PARENT COUNCIL Adrian Stevenson (Chair) 35 Dennistoun Road Langbank PA14 6XH 0770 256 7339 info@parkmainsparentcouncil.org.uk Office Bearers Chair: Adrian Stevenson Treasurer: Ghael Paterson Secretary: Alan Nicholson Meeting Minutes Monthly meeting 22 nd February 2010, 7.00 pm in the Staff Room Park Mains High School ERSKINE Renfrewshire PA8 6EY 0141 812 2801 1. Opening remarks, welcome and apologies The meeting was opened at 7.00pm and those in attendance were welcomed by the Chair. Apologies were relayed to the meeting. 2. Minutes of last meeting Minutes approved. 3. New Build Mr. K. Gray (BSM) provided the council with an update on the progress of the new school. The initial external land survey has been completed. Over previous months, meetings had been conducted with the principal teachers of departments and an analysis of their needs and preferences is being undertaken. The council were given details of the new build focus group, which comprises of representatives from investment and technical services, finance and IT, environmental services and Renfrewshire leisure. Mr Gray expressed a desire for a parent council representative in the group, although acknowledged that meeting times could be problematic. The chair agreed to attend meetings when possible. A staff working group has been established to considered the learning environment in the new school and as the project progresses, it was agreed that parents could best be kept informed via a bi-monthly newsletter. A draft plan of the new school should be available before the summer. 4. Budget Update Mr. Gray provided an overview of the school’s finances. He stressed the school’s prudence, contextualising his account through the projected fall in the school roll over the coming years. Money will be carried over into the next financial year to help offset this. New lamps for digital projectors have been purchased and finance was awarded to departments based upon departmental plans tied to new curricular initiatives. A rolling programme of CPU renewal is to be introduced in the next financial year.
5. Head Teacher Report The Head Teacher issued council members with his report for January/February 2010. The council welcomed the new formatting of the parental newsletter and raised the possibility of making newsletters available to parents via the school website and/or having them sent electronically via email. No objections were raised. 6. School Aims / Values Pupils, parents and staff have now all been consulted on the new school aims and values. A staff workshop in February distilled the results into 4 core values: respect, opportunity, commitment and community. Mr. Dewar emphasised the last of these as being a pupil-led choice. The council welcomed the work. The school looks to have these new values in place for the forthcoming academic session (2010-11). 7. Curriculum Changes and their effects on pupils choices. Mr. Dewar outlined the impact of change in the curriculum offered by Park Mains on pupil choice in the upper school. Subsequent discussion balanced the social advantages and academic disadvantages of S6 pupils having to travel to undertake selected courses. The pupil representatives raised concerns about the reliability of the taxi service and the impact this had on their course attendance. 8. Pupil Representatives Christine Langlands and Craig Mackay brought several issues to the attention of the council. The absence of soap and toilet paper in the school’s toilets was discussed, and after agreement was reached in the need to make all pupils aware of how misuse of these items affects others, no objections were raised to reintroducing them on a trial basis. Secondly, the pupil representatives raised the lack of choice for those served last in the school canteen and it was agreed that the pupil council should approach the canteen staff to discuss this further. The pupils again raised the question of study leave for prelims and their wish to have a pupil participation in decisions concerning the new school building. Finally, they expressed a desire to become a fair-trade school and it was agreed that they should contact the school’s eco-committee to pursue the matter further. 9. Fundraising Members put forward a number of fundraising ideas for the school including the collection of spent ink cartridges from printers. The chairperson asked council members to contact him directly via email with ideas. It was agreed that a subcommittee would be established to deal specifically with fundraising issues, and that fundraising would be top of the agenda at the next meeting. 10. AOB There were no other matters of business.
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