{"id":591,"date":"2015-08-20T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/?page_id=591"},"modified":"2025-01-15T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:33:30","slug":"partnership-with-parents-parent-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/partnership-with-parents-parent-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership with Parents &#8211; Parent Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Our Parent Council meet on the first Thursday of the month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">These meetings currently take place on <strong>&#8216;Google Meet&#8217; at 6:30pm.<\/strong>\u00a0 Please download this from\u00a0 your app store and click on the link that will be provided prior to the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Parent Council Members:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chairpersons: Marie Drew &amp; Claire Kennedy<\/li>\n<li>Treasurer: Mary Clare Cowan<\/li>\n<li>Secretary: Fiona Darkin<\/li>\n<li>Church Representative: Gemma Scott<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click on the links below to read the Parent Council Minutes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/ourlady\/uploads\/sites\/2305\/2025\/01\/15093305\/OLOP-PC-Minutes-January-25-1.pdf\">OLOP PC Minutes January 25<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/ourlady\/uploads\/sites\/2305\/2025\/01\/15092903\/HT-Report-Jan-2025.pptx\">HT Report &#8211; Jan 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Parent Council<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Parental Involvement Act changed the arrangements for parental representation in schools. As of August 2007, Parent Councils will be the representative body for parents. The Parent Council has taken over the roles of the former School Board and P.T.A. including fundraising as well as a number of activities for both parents and pupils throughout the session. The role of the Parent Council is:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>support the school in its work with pupils .<\/li>\n<li>represent the views of all parents .<\/li>\n<li>encourage links between the school, parents, pupils, pre-school groups and the wider community .<\/li>\n<li>report back to all parents in the school<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Our Parent Council also includes a church representative. Meetings are held in school on the first Thursday of the month at 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Parent Council Constitution can be viewed by clicking on the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">OLOP_Parent_Council_Constitution[1]\u00a0 (Currently being updated)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Scottish Parent Teacher Council<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SPTC is the national organization for parents&#8217; groups in Scottish schools. They offer help and advice to all parents. Our Parent Council is now a member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Login details are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Username: OURLADY1 Pasword: Parent Power\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Website Address: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptc.info\/\">www.sptc.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Parentzone<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Support for Parents and Carers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Watch out for new pages on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/parentzone\/index.asp\">Parentzone<\/a> that will be helpful for parents and carers with children sitting exams in the coming weeks. This will include information about the new qualifications and a guide to preparing your child for exams, which has useful links to sample exam papers and revision aids. We will also be tweeting and providing regular updates throughout the exam period. You may have noticed a new series of materials to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/parentzone\/learningathome\/supportingnumeracy\/index.asp\">support numeracy at home<\/a> has recently been added to Parentzone. These new materials provide ideas for building numeracy into everyday activities, applicable to Curriculum for Excellence early level through to fourth level. The materials consist of illustrations which can be downloaded from the website and handed out to parents and carers. We are also planning other changes to Parentzone in the coming months.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Find out more in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/parentzone\/parentzoneischanging.asp\">news item<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you would like to be involved or have any suggestions for improvements to the Parentzone website please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:parentzone@educationscotland.gov.uk\">parentzone@educationscotland.gov.uk<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many thanks Kind regards Tegwen Wallace Senior Communications and Information Officer <strong>Education Scotland\/Foghlam Alba <\/strong>Endeavour House1 Greenmarket DundeeDD1 4QB Tel\/F\u00f2n: 0141 282 5373 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/\">www.educationscotland.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Click on image below to visit Parentzone Website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Parentzone Website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/parentzone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"599\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/partnership-with-parents-parent-council\/parentzone-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/ourlady\/uploads\/sites\/2305\/2015\/08\/Parentzone.png\" data-orig-size=\"231,218\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"Parentzone\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/ourlady\/uploads\/sites\/2305\/2015\/08\/Parentzone.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/ourlady\/uploads\/sites\/2305\/2015\/08\/Parentzone.png\" class=\"wp-image-599 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/ourlady\/uploads\/sites\/2305\/2015\/08\/Parentzone.png\" alt=\"Parentzone\" width=\"72\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Parent Council meet on the first Thursday of the month. These meetings currently take place on &#8216;Google Meet&#8217; at 6:30pm.\u00a0 Please download this from\u00a0 your app store and click on the link that will be provided prior to the meeting. Parent Council Members: Chairpersons: Marie Drew &amp; Claire Kennedy Treasurer: Mary Clare Cowan Secretary: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/partnership-with-parents-parent-council\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Partnership with Parents &#8211; Parent Council<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4261,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-591","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/ourlady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}