LOCHFIELD PARENT COUNCIL

MONDAY 6TH FEBRUARY 2017, 7pm @ ABBEY INN, TODHOLM, PAISLEY

PRESENT

Chair - Suzanne Hill (SH), Deputy Chair - Sharon Ronald (SR), Treasurer - Louise Galbraith (LG), Secretary - Lorna Illingworth(LI), Shona Bird (SB),Karen McAllister (KM), Gail McGowan (GM), Anne Wilson (AW)

APOLOGIES

Vicky Donaldson (VD),Gavin Gray(GG),Susan Gray(SG),Kirsty Donaldson (KD), Emma Burns (EB), Emma Earl (EE), Margaret Kennedy (MK), Laura Critchel(LC), Claire Macgregor Duncan (CMD), Angela Mullen (AM)

ADVISOR

Marie Renton (MR)

WELCOME

SH opened the meeting – the meeting had to move to the Abbey Inn as we couldn’t locate caretaker at St Andrew’s to get access to a classroom

MATTERS ARISING FROM LAST SESSION

All matters covered by Agenda

EVENTS

LADIES NIGHT – Fri 24/2/17

  • Tickets SOLD OUT in one week (120)
  • ‘Black & Sparkly’ theme (suggested dress, table decorations & goodies). Tickets state that own snacks should be brought.
  • Sub-committee has met to progress organising event
  • DJ booked (£140) plus a parent will also do a short DJ set
  • ‘Butler’ will hand out shots
  • SH has hand delivered letters to local businesses asking for raffle donations – responses awaited. Facebook message will be added asking for donations. SR will wrap donations in cellophane & bows.
  • Raffle tickets will be prepped in advance to save time tearing them out of books on the night
  • Committee members’ £5 for their own ticket will be combined to buy a Grand Raffle prize and other members not attending will be asked to consider donating £5 for this prize. On the night party goers will be asked to enter prize draw by putting £5 in an envelope that will be on the tables.
  • Goody bags to be made up – if partygoer finds a miniature inside, they win a full size equivalent

SPRING DISCO – Thurs 30/3/17

  • 2 separate discos covering P1-P3 and P4-P7
  • Further details & organising will be progressed in due course

OTHER FUNDRAISING

‘EASYFUNDRAISING’

  • Cash back available to school from online retail purchases
  • No further income (£48.79 cash back received as at 9/1/17)
  • Further promotion of this would be good. SH will print off some more leaflets and a Facebook reminder will be added

SMARTIE TUBES

  • Ask pupils to fill with 20 pences
  • Costco : 48 tubes = £17.86 (inc vat)
  • B&M : 4 packs = £1.00
  • Cheaper option is B&M
  • 246 Smartie tubes needed – LG will arrange to buy these

COFFEE MORNING

  • Lack of suitable dates to fit this in so decision taken to concentrate efforts on Summer Fun night

BAG PACKING

  • SH contacted Morrisons supermarket, Lonend and we will be considered for the end of the year. Date will be finalised by Morrisons contact in due course. We may have to donate from our collection to Morrisons’ designated charity of the year.

BRAEHEAD FUNDING

  • SH advised application was unsuccessful on this occasion

SILVERBURN FUNDING

  • SH advised that they only support local organisations

POLICE MUTUAL ‘FORCE FOR GOOD’ FUND

  • SB will submit application for consideration of £1,000 community funding for a specific project – the committee agreed we would stipulate playground equipment
  • The last funding we secured from this was used to buy gym mats - SB has asked for photos of gym mats being used to attach to new application

TREASURER’S REPORT

  • Bank Balance :£4,454.25Cr
  • £300 paid for Learning Eggs
  • £48 settled for late Xmas Card order

Funding Requests Received – Totalling £2,600 :

Residential Trip Bus£780

Sports Day Buses£500

Leavers Ties£180

Whole School Class Trips£500

Gym Mats£640

Total£2,600

There is an additional funding request for £462 to re-imburse purchase of Head / Deputy Boy & Girl ties (6 ties). In order to get best deal 66 ties had to be bought for £462. The committee have agreed to contribute £100 towards the total cost.

Netball / Basketball trophies will require funding – approx. £150

Approx £1,600 will remain after above requests are settled

LG will arrange to settle above requests directly with the school

HEAD TEACHER UPDATE (delivered by Mrs Renton in the absence of Mrs Macgregor Duncan)

  • Miss Dundas remains off ill & a return to work date not known
  • Mrs Munro has left the school. Mrs Frew is her replacement for the moment. Vacancy will be advertised to cover 2 days NCC time.
  • MrsScollen returns from Maternity Leave in May and will take over P4/3 from Mrs Mullen who will return to Langcraigs Primary School.
  • Teachers have been asked to organise school trips for all classes
  • Head Boy / Girl ties were presented at Assembly today
  • Miss Dickson is organising a Numeracy Day (possibly 24/2/17) with related activities
  • Parent questionnaires : 91 completed & returned out of a possible 203. Will be completed and discussed with Parent Council and then be communicated to parents
  • 2017 P1 registration :

29 pupils in catchment area

9 placing requests ‘in’

38 pupils, but could be more if placing requests ‘out’ are not granted

GENERAL

  • Facebook – working well
  • School website - the school have kindly uploaded Jan 2017 Agenda & Minutes (LI will request this monthly). Twitter / Facebook / Text alerts to parents would be useful to signpost them to the information. It was noted that school website is difficult to find via Google so regular reminders to parents needed – encourage them to save as a ‘favourite’. SH has taken copy of some out of date info that’s on the LPC page to review it for updating. It was also noted that not all parents want to use Twitter / Facebook to access information and may be missing out of some communications / messages
  • Lollipop Patroller – SB advised : no further update since last month but footfall counts will be undertaken, then analysed to determine best place for patroller to be situated.
  • Parking – the committee discussed various examples of poor parking witnessed recently. Further line painting and review of signage awaited.
  • PVG Review – 5 current members have one, 9 don’t. Committee agreed that it would be beneficial for regular helpers at events to have one – SH will consider further

PARENT LIAISON MEETING - LG unable to attend meeting tomorrow, 7th February 7-9pm in the council buildings, SH will try to attend if able to.

AOB

  • SH asked about Scottish Govt funding to raise attainment. MR advised that Head Teachers are in discussion about the best way to use this money. More information will follow.

Next meeting – Monday 6th March 2017 at 7pm, St Andrew’s Academy