{"id":1008,"date":"2016-11-03T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/?page_id=1008"},"modified":"2016-11-22T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T10:23:45","slug":"alva-primary-school-parent-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/alva-primary-school-parent-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Alva Primary School Parent Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The role of the Parent Council is to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>support the school in its work with pupils<\/li>\n<li>represent the views of all parents<\/li>\n<li>encourage links between the school, parents, pupils and the wider community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A School\u2019s Parent Council\u00a0is recognised in law and therefore the \u00a0school and the local authority must listen to the views of the Parent Council says and give it a proper response.<\/p>\n<p>Every school\u2019s Parent Council will be different because it will be parents in each school who decide such things as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how their Council will be set up<\/li>\n<li>what it should be called<\/li>\n<li>what size it should be \u2013 e.g. in a very small primary school, all parents could be involved<\/li>\n<li>who should be a member of the Parent Council<\/li>\n<li>how they should be appointed<\/li>\n<li>what is the most convenient time to hold meetings<\/li>\n<li>what will be discussed at meetings \u2013 these might be topics such as school uniform, parking near the school, fundraising<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Generally, members of the Parent Council must be parents of children who attend the school and the chairperson must have a child in the school.\u00a0 However, the Parent Council can decide to co-opt other members from teachers and the community who will have knowledge and skills to help them.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to join our Parent Council, or would like to hear more, contact\u00a0our Parent Council Chair, Andy Witty, at andy.witty@hotmail.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The role of the Parent Council is to: support the school in its work with pupils represent the views of all parents encourage links between the school, parents, pupils and the wider community A School\u2019s Parent Council\u00a0is recognised in law and therefore the \u00a0school and the local authority must listen to the views of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/alva-primary-school-parent-council\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alva Primary School Parent Council<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5186,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1008","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1008\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/alvaprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}