{"id":8523,"date":"2017-11-23T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/?p=8523"},"modified":"2017-11-23T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T16:20:07","slug":"parent-council-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/2017\/11\/23\/parent-council-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Council Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the festive season submerges us with tinsel and turkey, here&#8217;s a quick update on what the Parent Council has been discussing and has planned:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><u>OLM Hub<\/u>\u00a0&#8211; all parents \/ carers are welcome to our next &#8220;Coffee, Cake Communicate!&#8221; get together on Friday 24 November at 2pm in the junior dept dining area. We look forward to welcoming as many as possible for a chat.<\/p>\n<p><u>Topics discussed<\/u>\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0minutes will be published soon but here&#8217;s a quick recap on key points we covered at our last meeting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the ERC budget consultation &#8211; we have taken part in the Council&#8217;s feedback forums and discussed the proposals. Mrs Dillon-Ruddy clarified proposed cuts to classroom assistants will not directly affect OLM as our pupil support assistants do not fall into that category. Whilst we&#8217;ve offered our feedback, please do respond directly to the consultation using this link (previously circulated by the school). It closes on 28 November.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk\/article\/9172\/2018-2021-budget-consultation---Closing-soon\">http:\/\/www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk\/article\/9172\/2018-2021-budget-consultation&#8212;Closing-soon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>additional support for learning in school was discussed<\/li>\n<li>communication and involvement continue to be key areas for us to develop as a school community<\/li>\n<li>amended anti bullying and promoting positive behaviour policies are being put in place (see email circulated by school) and we heard about new initiatives to incentivise good behaviour including stickers\/certificates\/reflection sheets<\/li>\n<li>the new STEM room has been created and funding has been applied for to develop this. A report by Architecture and Design Scotland (consultants) has also just been received and we hope to hear about recommendations at our next meeting.<\/li>\n<li>the library is getting there but there is still a lot of work to do in cataloging books &#8211; if parents have a spare hour any time, please do pop into the school to offer help. You do not need to pre arrange this, just ask for Mrs Wright in school.<\/li>\n<li>we continue to support the school (as does the PSA) with the Playground Project. We will generate a separate update on this as there is much to cover!<\/li>\n<li>finally, we wished Mr MacConnell well in his new post and thanked him for everything he has done for the school &#8211; as well as teaching in the school more recently, Mr MacConnell set up the OLM football club and continues to run it for the benefit of over 200 OLM pupils.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Meeting dates<br \/>\n<\/u>All parents \/ carers are welcome to meetings which take place at 7pm in the junior department except as noted below. Remaining meeting dates for 2017\/18 are:<\/p>\n<p>11 January (Thursday)<\/p>\n<p>1 March (Thursday)<\/p>\n<p>17 April (Tuesday &#8211; St Ninian&#8217;s RE Room 1)<\/p>\n<p>31 May (Thursday)<\/p>\n<p><u>Who are we?<br \/>\n<\/u>We are delighted to have a strong membership of 32 parents this year including a good balance of new and old members &#8211; they are listed below for information. Please contact us any time with any issues you wish us to discuss on\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:olm-parentcouncil@hotmail.com\">olm-parentcouncil@hotmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or message us on facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Gillian Boyle (Chair)<\/p>\n<p>John Paul Sheridan (Vice Chair)<\/p>\n<p>Catriona Bark<\/p>\n<p>Clare Bowes<\/p>\n<p>Mairead Brophy<\/p>\n<p>Claire Clark<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Garioch<\/p>\n<p>Steven Gray<\/p>\n<p>Paul Frazher<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Harkness<\/p>\n<p>Michael Harvey<\/p>\n<p>Denis heraghty<\/p>\n<p>Jo Heraghty<\/p>\n<p>Pauline Hessett<\/p>\n<p>Claire Johnston<\/p>\n<p>Roisin Keane<\/p>\n<p>Karen Kelly<\/p>\n<p>Martin Kenny<\/p>\n<p>Geraldine Leonard<\/p>\n<p>Joanne Logan<\/p>\n<p>Mary Moore<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Murray<\/p>\n<p>Pauline Murphy<\/p>\n<p>Lorna McIntosh<\/p>\n<p>Joe McLachlan<\/p>\n<p>Chris McLaughlin<\/p>\n<p>Michael Mckenzie<\/p>\n<p>Anne Marie O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p>Karen O&#8217;Hara<\/p>\n<p>Shazia Parvez<\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline Stewart<\/p>\n<p>Judy Taggart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the festive season submerges us with tinsel and turkey, here&#8217;s a quick update on what the Parent Council has been discussing and has planned:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-8523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-parent-council","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\/8523","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\/4827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/OurLadyMissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}