{"id":155,"date":"2015-06-19T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/anntest3\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2015-11-18T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T09:58:54","slug":"parent-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/parent-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in St. Patrick&#8217;s we have a very active Parent Council who work in partnership with the school to improve the learning experiences for all of our children.<\/p>\n<p>The Parent Council&#8217;s rights and duties include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>supporting the work of the school<\/li>\n<li>representing the views of parents<\/li>\n<li>consulting with parents and reporting back to the Parent Forum on matters of interest<\/li>\n<li>promoting contact between the school, parents, pupils, providers of nursery education 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>Parent council meetings usually take place on the<strong> first Wednesday of every month<\/strong> and are open to members of the public. (Dates of meetings are included in the school&#8217;s monthly newsletters) All parents\/guardians of children who are pupils at this school are entitled to vote in elections.<\/p>\n<p>Objectives of the council are generally set at the AGM which gives the group concentrated objectives for the coming session. 2015\/16 objectives are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Up-date of the School Handbook<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Assist on the Homework policy\/position statement<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Collaborative working on a &#8216;Better relationships Better Learning Policy&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Creation of a school vision statement<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can contact the parent council by letter sent to the school office or at the email address below.<\/p>\n<p>ParentCouncilStPatricksShotts@outlook.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in St. Patrick&#8217;s we have a very active Parent Council who work in partnership with the school to improve the learning experiences for all of our children. The Parent Council&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/parent-council\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parent Council<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stpatricksshotts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}