{"id":361,"date":"2018-01-10T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/?page_id=361"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:40:35","slug":"parent-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/information-for-parents\/parent-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Welcome to our area of the website<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Parent Councils were set up to replace School Boards following an Act of Parliament called the Parental Involvement Act.\u00a0\u00a0 The underpinning thrust of the Parental Involvement Act is to actively promote the involvement of parents in their child\u2019s education and welfare at home and in school.<\/p>\n<p>The Whalsay Parent Council has a representative for every year group, see below.\u00a0\u00a0 The rep will actively try to ensure that every parent is informed of what the Parent Council is doing, and will be encouraging parents to contact them with ideas, concerns, issues, basically anything parents believe the Parent Council can help with in anyway.<\/p>\n<h4>Next Parent Council Meeting &#8211; Tuesday\u00a0 10th February 2026 at 5.30pm &#8211; Please contact your class rep with any issues\/questions you would like raised.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2025\/08\/25100552\/Parent-Council-Reps-2025-26.pdf\">Parent Council Reps 2025 26<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2018\/06\/Updated-WPC-constitution-May-2018.pdf\">WPC Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please see following Minutes of Meetings and parent correspondence.\u00a0 For earlier minutes please e-mail whalsayparentcouncil@gmail.com stating the dates of the meetings required.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Minutes\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2026\/02\/19113419\/Minutes-11-11-25.pdf\">Minutes 11-11-25<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2026\/02\/19113420\/Head-Teacher-Report-11.11.25.pdf\">Head Teacher Report &#8211; 11.11.25<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2026\/02\/19113934\/Minute-16.09.25.pdf\">Minute 16.09.25<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2026\/02\/19113421\/Minute-19.06.25-AGM.pdf\">Minute 19.06.25 AGM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2026\/02\/19113419\/Minute-06.05.25.pdf\">Minute 06.05.25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our area of the website Parent Councils were set up to replace School Boards following an Act of Parliament called the Parental Involvement Act.\u00a0\u00a0 The underpinning thrust of the Parental Involvement Act is to actively promote the involvement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/information-for-parents\/parent-council\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3257,"featured_media":0,"parent":3253,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-361","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":89,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361\/revisions\/7012"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}