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Minutes of Past PC Meetings
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29 March '10
18 January '10
25 November '09
02 November '09
02 September '09
15 June '09
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Parent
Council Newsletter JULY 2009
Merrylee
Primary School’s
Parent Council has met and discussed many issues over the last year, and I would
like to give you a brief update on them.
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We
have been working tirelessly on the natural playground project, approaching
over 100 businesses and applying for grants and sponsorship to get the
project completed. This has been a sustained effort, and has meant many
meetings with our sponsors and the project manager and we hope that you will
agree the end result will be well worth it!
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We
have invited some excellent speakers to provide training workshops for our
parents and those of OLA.
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We
have built and maintained our parent council website, which has details of
our agendas and what we agreed; our contact details and photos so that you
can recognise us and speak to us in the playground; a ‘contact us’ option if
you’d prefer to email us; lots of news, information and links about
fundraising for the playground and other activities. Please take the time to
visit our site and feel free to contact us on any issue:
www.merryleeprimarypc.org
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We
have managed to significantly raise the profile of the school by a sustained
media campaign. We have featured on the BBC, in the Evening Times and the
Extra, to name but a few.
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We
campaigned vigorously on your behalf to get the new school building
completed so that we could move into and enjoy our fabulous new premises.
Many parents came and helped in the school move, planted trees and gave
generously of their time – many thanks!
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We
supported the nursery parent forum in their campaign to stop the closure of
Merrylee nursery class, although ultimately as you will know, this was sadly
unsuccessful. We wish the fantastic nursery staff the very best of luck in
their future careers and would like to express our thanks for all their hard
work with our children.
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We
have written to Bailie McNally about the dog fouling problem around the
school and he has written back to assure us that signs will be put up.
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We
have written to Colchri Coaches about traffic problems and specifically the
movement of bus 374 before and after school and are awaiting their response.
We hope to put together a proposal on pedestrian management around the
school for the Council to implement to improve our children’s safety.
At the suggestion of a parent through our web-site, we are preparing
a map of suitable parking areas and pedestrian access to school to ease
congestion.
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We
have the support of the school to provide a scooter park for the children to
be able to leave their scooters securely during the school day.
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We
are pleased to report that a quiet room for prayer or contemplation, open to
all pupils, will be made available. Please contact Mrs Mahindru if you wish
to arrange this on behalf of your child.
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We
have discussed the staffing arrangements and composite classes for next year
with Mrs Mahindru and fully accept that her hands are tied by Council
provision in this matter, and that she is working as hard as possible to
come to the best possible arrangement for the pupils. Please do not hesitate
to contact her directly if you are worried about this.
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If
you have
unwanted or outgrown items of school uniform, please drop them off at
the Chest, Heart & Stroke Charity Shop at 103 Clarkston Road,
Glasgow, G44 3BL, (Tel: 0141 633 1666). In this
way we can support charity, recycle and reduce waste, especially with
expensive items like blazers.
I hope you agree that we have made some progress on your behalf this year!
Looking forward to next year, we need help for several projects:
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School travel plan.
We need parents to work with a group of pupils on healthy and sustainable
ways to travel to and from school. In particular we hope to trial a ‘walking
bus’ for one week next term – if you think you could help out in any way,
please contact Mrs Haddock at school.
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School magazine.
We hope to publish a magazine containing a piece of work from every pupil in
the school next year. If you have an interest in this area, please contact
us at school or via the parent council website.
Our next
meeting will be on Monday 31st August 2009, at 6.30 pm in school.
Please contact us if there are any issues you would like us to address at that
time. Any parents interested in joining us are most welcome – in particular we’d
like to have representation of every class, and at the moment we don’t have a
parent from this year’s primary three. If any parent from this class would like
to join us, you’d be very welcome! Our contact details are below. We’d like to
thank our fantastic staff for all their hard work this year, particularly those
who are leaving us. We also wish the very best of luck to our school leavers in
future as they go off to secondary school, and a happy holiday to all parents,
staff and pupils at Merrylee Primary School.
Email us
at:
contactus@merryleeprimarypc.org,
See our
website at:
www.merryleeprimarypc.org
Parent Council News November
2008
We would like to express our sorrow on the sudden death of
Frank Mallon. He was a committed and hardworking teacher and member of our
council, always ready to offer help or support with a joke and a smile. We are
very sorry to have lost him so suddenly and he will be deeply missed by us all.
Our thoughts and condolences go to his family and friends, his pupils and his
colleagues. We hope to honour him by some form of remembrance at our new
building and playground, which he worked hard to bring about.
I would like to briefly update you on our progress on your
behalf. We continue to seek funding from trusts, charities, grant-giving bodies,
companies and individuals to make up the shortfall of £10,000 in the budget for
our fantastic new natural playground. We are in constant negotiations with the
council and relevant bodies over the construction of the playground and wind
turbine.
To keep you informed of our progress, the parent council have
built a dedicated web page at http://merryleeprimarypc.org/,
with sponsorship from Levy McCallum, containing up to date information about the
natural playground and our other activities. Here are just a few of the areas
covered on our new website:
- A list of some of the companies we have approached for
funding (well over 70 bodies)
- A donation facility on the website where you can donate
to the natural playground or sponsor a component of the playground, with a
plaque with your choice of short message
- A list of press releases (we have worked hard to raise
the profile of Merrylee within the community)
- Dates of the next meeting of the parent council, with the
agenda and minutes of previous meetings
- Contact details for the members of the parent council.
Our meetings are open and we welcome any member of the parent forum who
wants to come along. Please get in touch if there are any issues, not just
the new playground, which you wish to raise.
We also hope to get volunteer help with planting. If you can
help, either with fundraising, or in your wellies at a later stage, you will be
welcomed with open arms!
The Parent Council
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