{"id":40,"date":"2016-06-17T10:38:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T10:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:16:16","slug":"parent-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/our-parents\/parent-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Parent Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The Parental Involvement Act made changes to the arrangements for parental representation in all schools.\u00a0 From August 2007 Parent Councils were established as the representative body for parents taking over from School Boards.<\/h5>\n<p>The role of the Parent Council is to:-<\/p>\n<ul>\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 the Parent Forum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All parents and carers of children attending Tingwall Primary School are members of the Parent Forum.\u00a0 The Parent Council was formed in accordance with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2023\/09\/05085636\/Constitution-amended-2021-1.pdf\">Constitution &#8211; amended 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the Parent Council? <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/parentzone\/getting-involved\/parent-councils\/about-parent-councils\/\">https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/parentzone\/getting-involved\/parent-councils\/about-parent-councils\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, our Parent Council raised money to improve our school playground. They organised a wonderful spring Fair and then got together some skilled parents and pupils who came along and built us lots of fun activities.\u00a0 Thank you all so much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-459\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104546\/IMG_5841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-459\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104546\/IMG_5841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colourful Caterpillar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-463\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104550\/IMG_5846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-463\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104550\/IMG_5846.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brmm Brmm &#8211; Off we go!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104549\/IMG_5845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-462\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104549\/IMG_5845.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wonderful Parent Volunteers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104542\/IMG_5834.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-455\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104542\/IMG_5834.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hard at work<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-461\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104548\/IMG_5844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-461\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104548\/IMG_5844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s coming along nicely!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-457\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104544\/IMG_5839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-457\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/tingwallprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/1288\/2020\/08\/31104544\/IMG_5839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We&#8217;re so pleased it is finished. Now for some fun!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parental Involvement Act made changes to the arrangements for parental representation in all schools.\u00a0 From August 2007 Parent Councils were established as the representative body for parents taking over from School Boards. The role of the Parent Council is to:- Support the school in its work with pupils Represent the views of all parents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/our-parents\/parent-council\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Parent Council<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/1117"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/tingwallprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}