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Feasibility Studies – The Results

Published by Billy on April 14, 2010 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School, Helpful Publications, Joint Parent Councils, Parental Assistance and Parental Involvement. 2 Comments

The feasibility studies are available to download! Yay, I hear you cry…

It’s in three parts, the first is an overview, the 2nd(Bucksburn) and 3rd(Newhills) concentrate on the individual sites(yes, only 2 sites were considered, yes I know we weren’t involved despite promises that we would be…*rolls eyes*).

Part 1 (.doc[4.1MB] | .pdf[549kB])
Part 2 (.doc[11.5MB])
Part 3 (.doc[10.1MB])

There are no pdf versions of 2 & 3 because they become insanely huge(over 60MB each)

Because these are fairly large documents I’ve converted them to html and put them on this site so you can read them online, direct access at

http://bucksburn.info/FR

but please note some formatting is lost in the automatic conversion.

Happy reading, comments below!

Meeting With Lorraine Sanda

Published by Billy on August 31, 2009 in Joint Parent Councils and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments

I received this in email today from the Aberdeen Parent Councils Liaison Group. Please reply directly to Anthony at the email address at the bottom should you be interested in this event.

Subject: Meeting with Lorraine Sanda, the National Parental Involvement Coordinator, Aberdeen 29th September

Repeat flier for those who missed the first prior to the holidays

Dear Parents/Parent Council Members,

On behalf of the Aberdeen Parent Council Liaison group, I have arranged for Lorraine Sanda, the National Parental Involvement Coordinator, to come and visit us in Aberdeen.

We would like to invite you to attend an open discussion on Parental Involvement, Parent Councils, Curriculum for Excellence and The National Forum.

The event is planned to take place at the New Airyhall school, at 7pm on Tuesday 29th September 2009.

Format for the evening will be follows: -

Introduction

Lorraine will share with us: -

· What has been happening around the country in relation to Parent Councils, Curriculum for Excellence and the National Forum.

· The latest developments in relation to these 3 areas.

· How her role as National Parental Involvement Coordinator promotes parental involvement generally, as well as supporting the development of Parent Councils.

The remainder of the meeting will be your opportunity to ask Lorraine questions and put forward valid points to be taken forward at a National level.

This invitation is open to all parents and an opportunity not to be missed. To reserve places at this most worthwhile event please contact me direct at Anthony.Rafferty@nhs.net

Please pass this information on to all parents in your school.

Looking forward to meeting you

Tony Rafferty

Member Aberdeen Parent Council Liaison Group/Chairman Airyhall Parent Council

Welcome Back

Published by Billy on August 27, 2009 in Bucksburn Parent Council and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Welcome back to the new school year. I trust everyone had a fantastic summer break and we’re all back refreshed for the coming year.

With this in mind I’m putting this reminder and open invitation to anyone who’s interested in the school’s parent council to come along to our first meeting of the session on Monday evening, the 31st August at 7PM in the school. Everyone is always welcome to attend parent council meetings.

We will also be doing a bit of a recruitment drive in the near future as Lynn’s ties to the school as a parent have ended with her daughter’s move to high school and there may be other roles requiring filling as we return and get the gossip news from the summer.

I’d particularly like to invite any parents who have never been before to come along and any new parents to the school, be it via nursery or moving to the area are also very welcome to come.

I hope you can come along and if so, I’ll see you there!

Last Chance Meeting

Published by Billy on February 4, 2009 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School, Parental Assistance and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

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!

Published by Billy on February 3, 2009 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School, Joint Parent Councils, Parental Assistance and Parental Involvement. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

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

Published by Billy on January 15, 2009 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments

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

Published by Billy on November 29, 2008 in Bucksburn Parent Council and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments

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

Published by Billy on November 28, 2008 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments

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

Published by Billy on November 21, 2008 in Bucksburn Parent Council and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments

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…
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Objection Form

Published by Billy on November 10, 2008 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School, Parental Assistance and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments

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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