{"id":1124,"date":"2021-03-02T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stdavidsps\/?page_id=1124"},"modified":"2025-03-17T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:05:14","slug":"our-p-t-a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stdavidsps\/our-p-t-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Parent Teacher Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Saint David&#8217;s Parent Teacher Council<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"984\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stdavidsps\/our-school\/st-davids-badge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stdavidsps\/uploads\/sites\/25459\/2021\/02\/10140755\/St-Davids-badge.png\" data-orig-size=\"100,126\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"St Davids badge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stdavidsps\/uploads\/sites\/25459\/2021\/02\/10140755\/St-Davids-badge.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stdavidsps\/uploads\/sites\/25459\/2021\/02\/10140755\/St-Davids-badge.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-984\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stdavidsps\/uploads\/sites\/25459\/2021\/02\/10140755\/St-Davids-badge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"126\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>The composition of the Parent Council is as follows:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four parent members<\/li>\n<li>One Church Representative<\/li>\n<li>One staff member<\/li>\n<li>Head Teacher is a professional advisor to the Parent Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Parent council\u2019s rights and duties include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supporting the work of the school<\/li>\n<li>Representing the views of parents\/carers<\/li>\n<li>Consulting with parent\/carers and reporting back to the Parent Forum on matters of interest<\/li>\n<li>Promoting contact between the school, parents\/carers, pupils, and the wider community<\/li>\n<li>Fundraising<\/li>\n<li>Taking part in the selection of senior promoted staff<\/li>\n<li>Receiving reports from the head teacher and education authority<\/li>\n<li>Receiving an annual budget for administration, training and other expenses<\/li>\n<li>Improving home school partnership and facilitating parental involvement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All parents including nursery parents are invited to become a member of the Parent Council if there are more parents applying than required then a ballot will be held.\u00a0 Parents serve for a period of two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Parent Council Members are as follows<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Carrie Lawson \u2013 Staff Member<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Sharon Ivanova\u2013 Church Representative<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Katie Ruddy &#8211; Chair Person<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Reynolds<\/p>\n<p>Mrs K Gallacher<\/p>\n<p>Miss M Clark<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and Young People have a right under the Additional Support for Learning Act 2009 as amended by the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2009 to make a placing request for their child or young person to attend a nursery (including partnership nursery), special school or, special class managed by the home authority.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of a successful placing request the authority are not required to provide transport.\u00a0 The Act also enables parents and young people to make a placing request to attend a school\/establishment belonging to another authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint David&#8217;s Parent Teacher Council The composition of the Parent Council is as follows:- Four parent members One Church Representative One staff member Head Teacher is a professional advisor to the Parent Council. 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