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PARENT FORUM & PARENT COUNCIL


Our parents support outings, run a book club, help at lunchtime , organise fun day and Xmas Fayre, run parental workshops and generally support school activities. The Scottish schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 has changed the arrangements for parental/carer representation in all schools.  Since August 2007, all parents/carers are automatically members of the Parent Forum for their school and they have a right to establish a Parent Council to represent them.

Information on the Glasgow City Councils’ Parental Involvement Strategy can also be found at https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=17870

PARENT FORUM

The membership of the Parent forum is made up of all parents/carers who have a child at an education authority school.  Membership of the Parent Forum allows  parents/carers to have a say in the local arrangements to enable their collective view to be represented on matters such as the quality and standards of education at the school and other matters of interest to parents/carers.  One of the ways parents/carers in the Parent Forum will be able to express their views will be through the     Parent Council.

PARENT COUNCIL

The Parent Council is a group of parents/carers selected by members of the Parent Forum to represent all the parents/carers of children at the school.  Parent Councils are very flexible groups and the Parent Forum can decide on the type of group it wants to represent their views.  A Parent Council could get involved in:

· Supporting the work of the school.

· Gathering and representing parents’/carers’ views to the Head Teacher,  Education Authority and HMIe.

· Promoting contact between the school, parents/carers, children and the local community.

· Fundraising.

· Involvement in the appointment of senior school staff.

Parent Councils are recognised in law from August 2007.  As a statutory body, the  Parent Council has the right to information and advice on matters which affect children’s education.  So, the school and the local authority must listen to what the Parent Council says and give it a proper response.  Every school’s Parent Council will be different because it will be parents/carers in each school who make the key  decisions.  The Parent Council is also entitled to support from the Education Authority in fulfilling its role.

 

Generally members of the Parent Council must be parents/carers of children who attend the school and the chairperson must have a child in the school.  However, the Parent Council can decide to co-opt other members from teachers and the community who will have knowledge and skills to help them.  The Parent Council is selected for a period of 2 years, after which members may put themselves forward for re-election if they wish, as long as they still have a child attending the school. 

Chairperson Mrs Joanna McKenna

Vice-Chairpersons Ms Gina McNeil

Secretary Ms Janet Dawkins

Treasurer Ms Rosetta McFarlane

The Head teacher has a right and a duty to attend all meetings of the Parent  Council, but does not have a right to vote.  If you wish to contact the Parent Council, please do so by calling the school office any message will be passed on to  Mrs McKenna the      Chairperson.

The Parent Council can be contacted at Sandwoodparents@hotmail.co.uk

There is also a Sandwood Parents facebook page to keep you updated on events.