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!

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddsg9zrm_0cqqt4hcj

Thanks.

Enquire Within – Sep 2009(.pdf)

More information can be found at the enquire website. A good resource for parents which I’ll be linking to from the sidebar.

The Aberdeen Parent Council Liaison Group would like to invite you to their first meeting for all the City Parent Councils for this academic year to be held at Summerhill Education Centre on Monday 5th October. The meeting will start at 7:00pm and we would expect to be finished by 9pm.

This meeting is for Parent Council representatives from Aberdeen City schools only. If you have received this invitation and it does not apply to you it may be that this is the only contact address we have for your Parent Council and I would ask that you forward it to the appropriate person as soon as possible. Thank you for you assistance.

We would like to cover two broad areas during the meeting which are;

1. APCLG itself – why is there a Group, what it hopes to achieve, who is a member and what is its mandate?

APCLG was set up some 18 months ago, however, we believe it is time to revisit the Group, its mandate, its make up, its participants and how we decide collectively who is to sit on it?

We recognise it may be time to ensure that people who participate on this Group are more formally selected. It is, therefore, out intent to seek your collective approval and if appropriate election of people to serve on the Group. Ideally if you should wish to be considered for nomination and selection we would ask that you attend this meeting. If for any reason you are unable to attend but still wish to be considered please let me know and provide a very brief (one paragraph maximum) statement on why you wish to be considered and what you would hope to achieve by participating in APCLG.

2. Major issues with respect to education in the city over the coming years.

Aberdeen City Council is contemplating having to make substantial further cuts year on year in education spend (along with cuts in other key public services spend). These cuts have the potential to have a profound effect on our children’s education and may well result in, amongst others, staff reductions, school closures and a likely consequent re-zoning of those that remain. At the same time as these reductions of service a general restructuring of teaching methods and the curriculum (curriculum for excellence) is also being embarked upon.

APCLG is trying to represent the broad interests of Parent Councils across the City and of your Parent Fora. To help understand where each Parent Council sits on the above issues we have developed a very brief questionnaire regarding APCLG and Parental Representation which I ask one person from each Parent Council to complete. The questionnaire is attached to this Email and ideally should be completed on-line by following the link in the attached document (also included below) or, if necessary, by filling in the responses on the Word document and Emailing it to the address indicated. IT is intended to provide feedback on the responses to the questionnaire at the meeting on 5th October.

Link to Parent Council Questionnaire (Key Ctrl + Click to follow link): APCLG Survey[link removed - Billy] Please note the questionnaire will be live on-line from 08:00hrs Wednesday 23rd September – help us by completing this as soon as possible.

The agenda that we wish to follow for the meeting to cover the two areas I have outlined above is as follows;

1. Introduction

2. APCLG Background / Status

3. Feedback on APCLG Survey

4. Nomination and election of representatives onto APCLG

5. Nomination of representatives to the National Forum

6. Education Committee Representation

7. Aberdeen City Education Issues

8. AOB

I cannot stress strongly enough that we are very interested in hearing your thoughts on APCLG and more generally on education in the City of Aberdeen. We therefore need you to come along to this meeting to make your views known.

Please attend.

Regards,

Paul.

Of course the eagle-eyed among you will have noticed this meeting is to be held at the same time as our own PC meeting so if anyone would like to represent Bucksburn at this please email me at secretary@bucksburn.info and I’ll warn them let them know. ;oD

• Backchat110(.doc file)
• HMIe Inspections(.doc file)

All parents should note that it is no longer acceptable to park in the Police Office car park because of inconsiderate drivers. The Police offered the use of their car park during drop off and uplift times over the last couple of years to alleviate congestion on Howes Road and reduce the danger to our children. Incidents by parents have caused this kind offer to be retracted, to the shame of the people involved. Please do not use the Police car park even if there is no more room on Howes Road. Find somewhere else to park.

In a similar vain and in order to ensure the continuing safety of the children forced to cross at Howes Road drivers should note that the Police will be enforcing the double-yellow lines with tickets given out for dangerous parking. Any parking on the double yellows in this area will be considered dangerous parking as there have already been incidents of collisions between car and child, so be warned! Thankfully so far this term there seems to be less congestion on the Howes Road so this should not be a problem.

It was also raised that there may be an unawareness of the upcoming September long weekend so the dates for your diary for that are the Friday/Monday of 25th and 28th of September. The parent council try to publish any dates of note in our Diary page, including the term times and holidays for 2010-2015, exclusive of in-service days I believe.

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

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!