Parent Council

THE PARENT COUNCIL 2020/21

Our Parent Council Comprises of:

Chairperson: Stewart Derrick – stewart.derrick@hotmail.co.uk

Secretary: Alison Breigan

Clerk:

Members: Carolann McLuckie, Diane Colgan.

Staff: Miss McCarthy (HT), Mr John Paterson (Acting PT)

The Head Teacher has a right and duty to attend all meetings of the Parent Council and acts as professional advisor to the Parent Council. Parent Council meetings are open to members of the public.

North Lanarkshire has a Twitter site devoted to Parent Councils – you call follow it here @ParentNorth

Parent Council members:

The council will be made up of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 10 current parents.
Each parent will be selected for a period of 1 year, however they may put themselves forward for reselection if desired.
Any parent of a child within the school can volunteer to be a member of the Parent Council.

For further information a Parent Council Constitution is available on request.

The Parent Council’s rights and duties include:

supporting the work of the school
representing the views of parents
consulting with parents and reporting back to the Parent Forum on matters of interest
promoting contact between the school, parents, pupils, providers of nursery education and the wider community
taking part in the selection of senior promoted staff
receiving reports from the Head Teacher and Education Authority and
receiving an annual budget for administration, training and other expenses.
improving home school partnership and facilitating parental involvement

The Parent council have set up an email address balmalloch@outlook.com for any parents who wish to contact them. Members of Parent Councils, on a voluntary basis, may also have an advisory role in decisions on placing requests by parents in respect of those situations where the number of placing requests for a particular school or for a particular stage in a particular school exceeds the number of places available.