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Last Chance Meeting

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Billy
on February 4, 2009
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We are having our final meeting before the council makes it’s decision on Monday @ 7PM in the school(Room 5). We’ll be collating everything we have to present at the council meeting on Wednesday, making sure we’ve not missed anything, asking if there’s anything YOU want added and giving those tasked with representing us a chance to make sure they’re happy.

Angela and Sarah (+1) will be (hopefully) going in front of the full council to present/appeal/plead/beg on our behalf.

There is no more we can do after this so it’s imperative that if you can possibly venture out in the (hopefully dry by Monday) weather please do.

We need to make absolutely sure we have a coherent argument for them to take us seriously. It’s the last gasp effort. Really.

Update!

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Billy
on February 3, 2009
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The parent council, PTA, Newhills PC and other interested individuals have been very active recently as the final chance for our school is approaching.

Aberdeen City Council meet on 11th February at the Town Hall to make their final vote on the proposition as set out by the Culture and Learning, Neighbourhood Services (North) department of the council.

Public attendance at this meeting is offered if you turn up before 2PM. We are in the process of seeing if we can get a group of parents together to make a more formal representation to the council at this time before they vote. This really is the final opportunity to show the councillors that they need to disregard the case as produced and recommended by Culture & Learning, something that they are unlikely to do even with this representation.

Newhills PC have drawn up a petition which I encourage all parents to sign and I will endeavour to make this available to all parents ASAP. I would encourage parents at Bucksburn to communicate with Newhills at this time, we are both working very hard at achieving a common goal. Both schools serve their communities in the way required by those communities, neither favour the merger and the amalgamation will be the death knell of that special something which cannot be measured that I know Bucksburn, and am sure Newhills, has.

So this is it folks. Can we show the council that they need to listen to the huge public opinion on this matter and do what they were voted in to do - represent their constituents? OR, do we just let THEM tell US what’s going to happen instead?

It’s your school, YOU DECIDE!

Amalgamation Update

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Billy
on January 15, 2009
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Following a meeting with Mr Brian Adam MSP and as reported here and here it looks for all intents and purposes as if the merger is due to take place regardless of local opinion. The parent council will be writing to all councillors to ensure that more than just the Newhills site be included in feasibility studies and also that the remit of those studies obtain further consultation from parents, or in plain English, they’ll check out more sites for the new school and ask us what points need to be considered when choosing the site.

Feel free to discuss in this forum thread.

Last Call for Submissions

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Billy
on November 29, 2008
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IF you have any points you want the Parent Council to include in their formal response you need to let us know NOW! The response must be delivered to the council on Monday.

Council’s Response To Consultation Evening

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Billy
on November 28, 2008
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Normally I would just link to the original document(.doc file) but I felt this should get it’s own post here too. Here is the official response by Aberdeen City Council to the consultation evening of Nov 6th.

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Sample Letters For Your Elected Members

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Billy
on November 21, 2008
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The sample letter as mentioned in the schoolbag letters can be downloaded by following this link…

Please sign the letter and send it on to any or all of the people in the list below.

parents letter to council (.doc file)

petition (.doc file)

A full list of who to send them to is as follows…
Continue reading ‘Sample Letters For Your Elected Members’

Objection Form

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Billy
on November 10, 2008
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You can use this form to automatically send your objections or comments to all four Bucksburn Councillors and David Leng(Head of the ACC Department involved in this). We’ve even filled in an example - use this or write your own.
A copy will also be sent to the parent council - we will not use your personal information for any purpose. We are just counting the emails sent.

-OR-

Use bucksburn@bucksburn.info if you have no email address

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If the form does not disappear and replace itself with a thank you message and instead you get the 404 “You are looking for something that just isn’t here” please refresh and try again. Occasionally the site has a bit of lag due to technical reasons that I won’t go in to! If you don’t get the thank you confirmation page your email did not send.
Councillor McDonald has responded to the default form above with the following—
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Public Consultation

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Billy
on November 3, 2008
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This Thursday sees the public consultation event held in Bankhead Academy at 19:00. Please come to this and show your support for the school. The parent council and PTA are meeting shortly beforehand to help out with clearing up anything you may feel needs to be addressed as well as just provide someone to sit with!

If you wish to view the consultation document it is available by following this link (.pdf file) and there is a hard copy in the school.

The parent council/PTA have developed their own views on key points requiring attention and would encourage all parents to speak with us with any concerns and to find out our opinions.

Parent Forum Event

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Billy
on September 8, 2008
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Please come along to the parent forum events today in the school. Run by Jean Henretty of the community learning team they should be informative, informal and fun.

Today from 2pm-3pm and again this evening from 7pm-8pm.

Jean and her team can help make parenting kids through school a more enjoyable task so this should be a worthwhile event.

Amalgamation

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Billy
on September 3, 2008
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Well done Stoneywood school on achieving their goal of status-quo. Now Bucksburn and Newhills…

“We propose to go to consultation on a new school for Bucksburn and Newhills, a suggestion that has fairly widespread support within the local community. Neither of these two schools are fit for purpose and a new school will complement the new Bucksburn Academy giving the area two new schools fit for the 21st century.”

The words of Councillor Kirsty West.

Is this true?