{"id":4385,"date":"2013-09-19T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2013-11-14T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:28:29","slug":"parent-council-august-2013-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/2013\/09\/19\/parent-council-august-2013-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Council August 2013 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We hope both you and your children are settling in well to the new term. The Parent Council is already getting back to working on your behalf and we look forward to hearing from you over the year:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Annual General Meeting \u2013 Thursday 19<sup>th<\/sup> September 7pm at school<br \/>\n<\/strong>Why not get involved?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">You can<strong> only<\/strong> join the PC at the AGM <\/span>each year so please come along then if you are interested.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0You can also attend meetings without joining at any time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>What does the Parent Council do?<br \/>\n<\/strong>We<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>represent the views of parents \/ carers<\/li>\n<li>support the school in improving the experience of our children and<\/li>\n<li>promote communication within the school community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The group \u2013 mostly parents, staff and local councillors \u2013 meets around 6 times a year. Smaller sub groups push forward specific projects.<br \/>\nLast year, we worked on issues ranging from a guide and helpline for new parents through to uniform policy, playground development and transition to the merged campus.<br \/>\nWe aim to keep you in touch with what is happening on the web site and in newsletters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Please remember however that as well as attending meetings<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">,<\/span> we want to hear your queries, comments and ideas on issues affecting our children at any time \u2013 please contact us and we will get back to you as soon as we can.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We are looking forward to a positive and constructive year supporting the Our Lady of the Missions school community. In the meantime, we wish everyone a warm welcome back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Contact us as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0By email: <a href=\"mailto:olm-parentcouncil@hotmail.com\">olm-parentcouncil@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0By phone: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anne Forsyth Chair\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 07952 251303<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gillian Boyle Vice Chair\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 07810 541250<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! \u00a0We hope both you and your children are settling in well to the new term. The Parent Council is already getting back to working on your behalf and we look forward to hearing from you over the year: \u00a0Annual General Meeting \u2013 Thursday 19th September 7pm at school Why not get involved? You can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/2013\/09\/19\/parent-council-august-2013-newsletter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parent Council August 2013 Newsletter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4240,113,13641],"class_list":["post-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-newsletter","tag-parent-council","tag-pc-newsletters","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4884,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}