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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!

Parent Forum Event

Published by Billy on September 8, 2008 in Parental Involvement. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

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.