Parental Engagement

Parental Involvement: # Parents as Partners

Our parents are very much valued members of our school community. We value the importance of involving parents/carers in the life of the school and their engagement in their children’s learning. We have an ‘open door’ policy to parents.

We aim to meet with parents who have a concern as soon as possible, and can arrange meetings later in the day to suit working parents. You can contact us at: inverkipprimarypc@gmail.com and feel free to follow us on X.

We will strive to ensure that you are:

  • Welcomed and involved in the life of the school
  • Fully informed about your child’s education and learning
  • Able to support learning at home
  • Encouraged to express your views and take part in decision making
  • Involved in forums for discussion and debate on educational policy Learning and Teaching

There are a number of ways parents can become more involved with learning and teaching in school:

  • Input to school questionnaires
  • Feedback following parent evenings / Termly Profiles
  • Attendance at Parents Evenings
  • Attendance at induction days / curriculum workshops
  • Attendance at showcases events
  • Attendance at school shows/ events
  • Input to class topics v Input to themed days/weeks

Please look at the school and Parentzone website for more information on Parental Engagement.

A Message from our Parent Council: Mrs Sarah Barr

Welcome! We represent you! We meet to discuss issues relating to school life – policy, teaching and learning including school, local authority and national initiatives.

The Parent Council meet approximately every 6 weeks. Our primary role as The Parent Council is to represent the views and concerns of the parents/carers at the school.  In addition, we provide support to the school management team, organise social and fundraising events and promote contact between all parents and the rest of the school community. With such a wide remit and range of activities, we currently have three sub-committees who meet at separate times and feedback at PC meetings.  These committees focus on:

  • Events Team – organise school discos, the Christmas Fayre plus lots of other fundraising events throughout the year.
  • Communications Team – look after and maintain our PC Facebook page, Twitter site, email account and our PC Termly Newsletter.
  • Learning and Teaching Team – work with our Head Teacher on matters relating to the curriculum, strategic improvement plan and school policy.

The PC welcome new members at our AGM at the start of each session in August/September. We are keen to have a good representation of parents from nursery to Pr7. If you have any questions, concerns, feedback or an interest in helping at any of our events then please feel free to contact us through our Parent Council:

  • Twitter:@InverkipPrimaryPC
  • Facebook: Inverkip Primary School and Nursery Class Parent Council
  • or via email: inverkippc@gmail.com

Office Bearers of the Parent Council, at present, are as follows:-

  • Mrs Sarah Barr – Chairperson
  • Mrs Kat Stewart – Vice Chairperson
  • Mrs Sharon Anderson – Treasurer
  • Inverkip Office staff (Mrs McInnes and Mrs McNeil , Minute Secretary)