Minutes of Meeting on Monday 30 January 2017 at 5.30pm in Cluny Primary School Hall.

Welcome/Apologies

Present : Rebecca Edwards (Chair), Vicki Clamp, Gordon Pirie, Alana Robertson, Claire Wood, Emma Milne, Richard Strachan, Claire Smith, Rhona McCallum, Sarah Wisnicki, Judith Scott (minutes). Pat Douglas (Moray Council)

Apologies: Tracey Reid, Nicky Smith, Pamela Parrott, Bev Marshall, Lorraine Campbell, Deborah Jennings, Fiona Cowie.

Approval of Minutes from September 2016

The minutes were approved by Claire Wood and seconded by Vicki Clamp.

Traffic

We were joined in the meeting by Pat Douglas, Sustainable Transport Officer with Moray Council and discussed the traffic and parking problems surrounding the school. She advised that parking on zigzag lines was a police enforcement matter and that Community Warden presence would be beneficial. She explained about a project run with Living Streets called Travel Tracker which is a software program recording how children get to school. Children are rewarded with badges each month when they walk to school a certain amount of times. Schools using Travel Tracker have increased their ‘walking’ numbers from approximately 50% to 82-84%. Park and Stride systems in place are also classed as ‘walking’. Miss Wood agreed to pilot the system with a few classes first before rolling out to the rest of the school.

School Photos

Rebecca Edwards informed the meeting that she had enquired with local photographers to compare prices with Tempest Photography for individual school photographs. Catchlites were approximately the same price with the same packages available. Shelley Foto was proving cheaper with more flexibility in ordering options. Lisa Grant and Jamie Stewart are being contacted to find out their prices and packages available. More information is required on this matter so will be repeated on next meeting’s agenda.

After School Clubs

Rebecca Edwards advised that parents had queried regarding the over subscription of After School Clubs and could there be a fairer system for pupil inclusion in these clubs. Miss Wood to investigate this matter and resolve.

Moray Parent Forum

The next meeting of the Moray Parent Forum is on 22nd February 2017 at 6.30pm. A representative for Cluny Primary School is being arranged to attend.

Question of the Month

The next question of the month will be Travel Tracker based and will be on Survey Monkey in the next few days.

AOCB

Cluny Primary School website is not showing up when ‘googled’. Moray Council being asked to include the website address under their section on Cluny Primary. Miss Wood also including the website address on the weekly newsletter as a link.

Rebecca informed the meeting that complaints had been made regarding school shows/assemblies with people not being able to see. Miss Wood informed the meeting that we do not have enough staging to cover the whole top section of the hall. A suggestion was made to implement a different formation of seating or stagger seating in rows.

The subject of Internet Safety was brought up. Miss Wood suggested a Survey Monkey question regarding whether parents would attend an Internet Safety Presentation by the Police School Liaison Officer.

Richard Strachan enquired as to how the Homework changes had been received by parents, staff and children. Miss Wood provided the meeting with a brief summary of the changes and advised that everyone had embraced it with homework being much more manageable now.

Date of Next Meeting

The next meeting will take place on Monday 8th May 2017 at 5.30pm.

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2017-01-31

Administrator

The Moray Council