Please see below for minutes of the latest Parent Council meeting:

HFPC Minutes for 10th Nov 2022

Holy Family P.S.

 

Parent Council Meeting

 

Thurs 10^th Nov 2022, 6.30pm Chapel Hall

 

Agenda

 

• School Prayer
• Welcome/Introductions
• School Prayer (below)
• Welcome and Apologies
• Head teachers report – Mrs Celino
• Parental engagement
• Fundraising/Christmas Coffee Morning
• Park
• Cheque for pantomime transport
• O.C.B
• Next Meeting

 

 

 

School Prayer

 

Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

 

Guide us, protect us, and help us to do good things for Holy Family primary and our community.

 

Amen

 

Welcome/Introductions and Apologies

 

Attendees: LM, CD, CC, LD, KMcC, AD, CS

Apologies JM, YC

 

 

Head teachers report – Mrs Celino

 

• Congratulations to Mr Celino on securing a PERM HT post at St Patrick’s – no release date confirmed as yet
• Likelihood the post for HF HT will be advertised by Christmas Break
• Mrs Cooney commence MAT leave Dec 22
• Newsletter available on website
• Cross Country event took place 10/11/2022, next heat March 2023
• Trees still to be removed from playground areas beginning of winter – materials (bark) to be utilized in the playgrounds.
• Parties confirmed – dates available in NL starting 16^th Dec
• Pantomime Arrange 30^th Nov
• Carol Service – In the church Wed 21^st Dec @9.30am
• Selection boxes required for parties – reach out to community champions – Tesco/Morrison – AD
• Confession supported by Father Brown
• Sacrament dates have been confirmed – details available in newsletter and below
  • 27^th April – Confirmation
  • 7^th March – First Reconciliation
  • 20 May – First Confirmation

 

 

Parental engagement

• Thank you to one of our HF Dad’s Calvin Laurie for supporting the Halloween Disco and doing a fantastic job of DJing and keeping all the kids entertained.

 

Fundraising/Christmas Coffee Morning – Friday 2^nd Dec

• Prize give away – 50/50 – AD to pick up with LG around random number generator.
• YC to provide account details for £5 entry (number)
• CC to arrange for a list of the enterprise items per class
• CC to arrange St Andrews Hospice attendance
• Hamper Raffle
  • Parent donations requested for hampers – hampers to be created x 3 – CD
  • AD to request possibility of banner creation from LG
  • Ask Fthr to add coffee morning to church bulletin – LD
  • CC to arrange hall decorations
  • LD to provide letter for donations to be handed in by 25^th
    • Boxes Chocolates
    • Wine/Spirit
    • Candles/Melts
    • Bath sets
    • Home Baking
    • Or any other donations from local businesses would be welcome

 

 

Review option of Feb Friend Disco – TBC

 

Shorts and Shade Summer Party – TBC

 

First Friday Mass – Monthly Coffee Morning

• We will be looking to reintroduce the raffle prizes at the First Friday Mass coffee mornings please drop into the school any unwanted items that would be suitable for raffle prizes

 

Park – email to Frank McNally re dog user – AD

Cheque for pantomime transport = £550   – YC

A.O.C.B – NA

Next Meeting – Thursday 24th Nov @ 16.45 in School

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Please see below for the Hallowe’en Party Letter from the Parent Council:

Halloween Party Letter 29.10.19

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Please see below for minutes of the latest Parent Council meeting:

HFPC Agenda-for-6th -Oct -2022

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HFPC Agenda-for-3rd-Sept-2022

 

Visit our easyfundraising page to get started:

http://http://https//www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/holyfamilyparentcouncilmossend/?utm_campaign=raise-more&utm_content=s-e2

 

Parent Councils came into force on 1^st August 2007.

A Parent Council has been formed in Holy Family. The constitution states that the membership will be a maximum size of 16 with the quorum for parents to be a minimum of three parents in attendance. When an election is due, all members of the Parent Forum will be advised of date etc., their right to stand and voting procedures.

The rights of a Parent Council include:-

1. Supporting the work of the school;
2. Representing the views of parents;
3. Consulting with parents and reporting back to the Parent Forum on matters of interest;
4. Promoting contact between the school, parents, pupils, nursery providers and the wider community;
5. Fund raising;
6. Taking part in the selection of senior promoted staff;
7. Receiving reports from the head teacher and Education Authority;
8. Receiving an annual budget for administration, training and other expenses.
9. Improving home school partnership and facilitating Parental involvement

 

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 particular stage in a particular school exceeds the number of places available.

Meetings of the Parent Council are open to members of the Parent Forum and dates/times of meetings are published on our notice board at the entrance to the school, in the newsletter and via the Holy Family Parents Facebook page. Mrs Wilson, Head Teacher, is a professional advisor to the Parent Council and has a right and duty to attend all meetings of the Parent Council.

Our Parent Council have an excellent partnership with the school [and with the Parish]. If you would like to find out more about the Parent Council and what we do, or if you have something you would like to discuss we would be delighted to see you. We always welcome new members, and all parents and carers are welcome to come along to any of our meetings. We appreciate that meeting dates/times won’t always suit everyone, so please don’t let that put you off – there is no obligation to come along to every meeting.

We aim to have parental representation across all year groups from P1 – P7 if possible, so please come and join us if you can.