Rosslyn have Parent Forum Meetings and ‘Friends of Rosslyn’ meetings. Parent Forum is led by the Headteacher, and the agenda is primarily school updates, developments, and school improvements. Friends of Rosslyn is Parent/Family led and is a network for supporting families and the school.
What is the Parent Forum?
The 2006 Parental Involvement Act states that every school in Scotland has a Parent Forum which consists of all the parents/carers who have a child at the school. They are automatically members, and do not need to apply or be officially invited onto this group.
The Parent Forum can expect to:
- receive information about the school
- identify issues
- be consulted
- express views
The main aim of the Parent Forum is to help the school operate as a successful school and to try to represent all parents/carers.
- Improve links between all parents and the school
- Make sure that parents get the information they need in an accessible way and that the school staff get feedback on parents’ views.
- Discuss any issue that’s of interest to parents, including school policies on such things as nurture, sexual health and relationships education, and school uniform.
- Work jointly with the school to set up extra-curricular activities and after-school clubs.
- As part of Curriculum for Excellence, parental involvement in their children’s learning is recognised as very important
- Represent parents’ views to the education authority and others on those issues that are of concern to parents, pupils, and staff with an awareness of equality and fairness.
- Involvement in the recruitment of new Headteachers and/or senior staff.
- Important consultation role during and after a school inspection.
- Take on those social and fundraising activities.
- The majority of Parent Forum members must be parents of children at the school.
- The definition of “parent” is very wide and includes everyone with a parenting role with regards to a pupil; this could include foster parents, family members who have care of a child and divorced/separated couples.
- The Parent Forum should promote equality and fairness in their activities and recognise the diversity in the school community.
- The Headteacher has a duty to attend all Parent Forum meetings.
Friends of Rosslyn have a constitution and AGM annually to elect the committee members.
Chair – Sharon Veelenturf
Secretary – Julie Paisley
Treasurer – Sandra Galloway
Committee Members – Liz Wiscombe and Daiva Mustasvili
Minutes of all meetings are shared via the School Parent App.
All families are welcome to join meetings at any time. You don’t have to be part of the group all year, and you don’t have to come to every meeting if you have in an interest in the group.
Currently all meeting are via TEAMS.
Below you will find the Friends of Rosslyn Constitution.
