{"id":391,"date":"2025-10-29T20:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/?page_id=391"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:34:26","slug":"parent-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/parent-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Parent Council is the formal representative body for parents with children attending St Matthew&#8217;s Academy. The Parent Council is made up of parents\/carers, a Church representative appointed by the Bishop, and the Head Teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details\" open><summary><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#dac944\" class=\"has-inline-color is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\">What does the Parent Council do?<\/mark><\/strong><\/summary>\n<p><br>The role of the Parent Council is to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Support the school in every aspect of its work;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Represent the views of all parents\/carers;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Encourage the links between the school, parents, pupils, and the wider community;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Report back to the wider Parent Forum;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consider the Head Teacher&#8217;s report on school matters at each meeting;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be involved in the appointment of Senior Leadership positions: Head Teacher and Depute Head Teachers;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be involved in school inspections undertaken by Education Scotland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Parent Council does not pursue issues regarding individual pupils or parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details\"><summary><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#dac944\" class=\"has-inline-color is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\">How can I contact the Parent Council?<\/mark><\/strong><\/summary>\n<p><br>The Parent Council can be contacted by email: <a href=\"mailto:gw14stmparentcouncil@glow.sch.uk\">gw14stmparentcouncil@glow.sch.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Parent Council can also be contacted by post, addressing any correspondence to the Parent Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also approach any current member of the Parent Council to take forward agenda items. Any parent\/carer is welcome to attend Parent Council meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details\"><summary><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#dac944\" class=\"has-inline-color is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\">Parent Council Meeting Minutes<\/mark><\/strong><\/summary>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parent Council is the formal representative body for parents with children attending St Matthew&#8217;s Academy. The Parent Council is made up of parents\/carers, a Church representative appointed by the Bishop, and the Head Teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28850,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stmatthewsacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}