Minutes of Meeting on Monday 26 September 2016 at 5.30pm in Cluny Primary School Hall.

Welcome/Apologies

Present : Rebecca Edwards (Chair), Bev Marshall (Vice Chair), Sonya Warren, Vicki Clamp, Pamela Parrott, Rhona McCallum, Nicola Smith, Tracey Reid (Treasurer), Gordon Pirie, Fiona Cowie, Deborah Jennings, Alana Robertson, Claire Wood, Emma Milne, Judith Scott (minutes).

Apologies: Claire Smith, Richard Strachan, Lorraine Campbell, Louise Green

Approval of Minutes from April 2016

The minutes were approved by Vicki Clamp and seconded by Emma Milne.

Stopping on Zig Zag lines outside school

Nicola Smith brought up the subject of parents parking and dropping children off on the zig zag lines outside both sides of the school. It was suggested that the Community Warden be approached to carry out random checks. Another suggestion was for children to prepare posters for display throughout the school and be sent home. Sonya Warren agreed to ask Dave Malpas, Transportation Manager, to attend the next Parent Council meeting. Nicola also suggested that the Rose Gardens are used as a dropping off/picking up point instead of the immediate streets of the school.

As a result of this topic it was also intimated that Moray Council propose the removal of all School Crossing Patrollers. This is not a legal responsibility of the council but is in fact the parents’ responsibility to get their child to school safely. The Parent Council are to email Moray Council with their strong concerns regarding this removal. Rebecca invited all members/parents to do the same and will let members know the appropriate person at Moray Council to write to. It is felt that the traffic problem outside school would worsen if this removal went ahead as more pupils would be being driven by car.

Miss Wood is to organise a ‘Hands Up’ survey in school to determine how many pupils are walking, being driven, cycling etc to school each day.

Question of the Month

A suggestion for Question of the Month was ‘What should the Parent Council monies be used for?’. Possible uses proposed were ‘seed money for the Christmas Fayre’, or ‘donation towards pantomime visit’.

Another suggestion was for parents to receive more information regarding the placing of children in groups within classes, ie. Reading groups, spelling groups etc. Miss Wood agreed to provide an information leaflet on this subject for distribution to parents.

AOCB

Donation -It was agreed that the Parent Council would gift approximately £700.00 to the Friends of Cluny. Tracey agreed to arrange this.

Dojo Points -Nicola Smith asked for clarification on what ‘Dojo points’ were? Miss Wood advised that this was an individual points system on a computer application and agreed to provide more information to parents.

Moray Parent Forum – Sonya Warren advised that the next meeting of the Moray Parent Forum was on Wednesday 28th September 2016 at 6.00pm.

Date of Next Meeting

The next meeting will take place on Monday 28th November 2016 at 5.30pm in Cluny Primary.

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2016-09-27

Administrator

The Moray Council