Cyber-security lessons could be expanded in UK schools
Plans to teach children as young as 11 about careers in cyber-security have been announced. New learning materials would be offered to UK schools to publicise jobs in the sector, the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills said. A recent report said limited awareness of cyber-security as a profession had created a skills shortage. One expert said the UK was at risk of being “left behind and at a disadvantage globally”. Read the full report in this week’s BBC Technology News.
Broughton High School Parent Council Meeting TONIGHT
Just a reminder, the Broughton High School Parent Council Meeting is TONIGHT, Thursday 13 March 2014, at 6.30pm in the Staff Room.
PC meetings can be attended by any parent or carer. You don’t have to join anything — these meetings are good for anyone who may simply want to find out how Broughton High School ticks. Or, if you do want to join in, you’re also very welcome to connect with a committee and bring aboard all your talents and interests.
Meeting Agenda
1 Welcome and apologies
2 Minutes of previous meeting: 5 December 2013
3 Matters arising, not otherwise on the agenda
4 Head Teacher’s report
5 Parent Council officers and Sub Group reports:
5.1 Management Support
5.2 Broughton Association
5.3 Communication Group
5.4 Treasurer
5.5 Consultative Committee with Parents (CCWP)
6 Review of 2014/15 CEC education budget/process
7 Any other business
8 Date of next PC meeting: Thursday 5 June 2014
‘Sounds Like Saturday’ cafe is going strong! Won’t you get involved too?
Just a quick note to let you know that the Saturday morning cafe at the Sounds like Saturday activities in Broughton High School banked £1,268.22 into the Broughton Association account last week.
The represents most of the profit that we have made since August 2013 (plus a decent sized float left over).
As well as being a great advert for the school, it also raises money whilst being a cheery and friendly place for everyone involved.
If any other parent wants to get involved, please get in touch as we could always do with another volunteer or two, and it’s a great way to find out more about the school whilst chatting to the other parent volunteers.
Many thanks to everyone involved.
Hugh Duffy
BHS Parent Council
More winners in our latest 200 Club drawing!
Here are the winners for the March 200 Club drawing. Remember, you can join too! Just drop a note to your Parent Council and ask how.
1st place £40.00 Ms J Brown
2nd place £25.00 Mrs A Morton
3rd place £17.00 Ms C Ratcliffe
4th place £12.00 Mr R H Taylor
5th place £10.00 Mr D Brownlee
Income: £258.00
Total payout: £104.00
Profit for Broughton High School: £154.00
Parenting Across Scotland’s ‘teens project’: calling all carers!
Here is a very interesting notice, from Alison Clancy, Project Officer in ‘Parenting across Scotland’ (PAS), a partnership of charities working together to provide a focus for issues and concerns affecting parents and families in Scotland. They are forming a series of focus groups, in support of ongoing work for the government. Want to volunteer (and get £30)? Read on!
‘[Our] teens project follows on from a parent information mapping exercise that CHILDREN 1st conducted for the Scottish Government. That mapping exercise was based on a commitment in the National Parenting Strategy about the provision of information to parents and carers. The mapping exercise found that most resources were for parents of very young children and there was very little information outside of education to support parents and carers of teenagers.
The teens project is managed by Parenting across Scotland and partner organisations. The objectives of the project are to:
• Identify what information is required by parents/carers of young people
• Explore views on current availability of information
• Access views on resources currently available
• Explore the most effective methods of getting information to parents, and
• Identify key issues in the development of information to parents/carers
We plan to run 4 focus groups and hope to organise these in March. We have certain criteria for the parents/carers that we wish to recruit but would like a broad representation. We are concentrating on parents/carers who have children in either P7 and S1 or S2 to S4.
We have commissioned a research company, Scotinform to conduct the focus groups for us. They will contact the parents/carers directly and will facilitate the focus groups. Each group will consist of between 8 -10 participants and last up to two hours. The groups will be held in the evening at 6pm and 8pm to maximise the chance of attendance. Each participant will receive a £30 incentive voucher for attending and any childcare or travel costs will be reimbursed.
This work will feed into an event on 29 April 2014 in Glasgow. All participants will be invited to attend the event and again childcare and travel costs will be reimbursed.
If you are interested in taking part please contact me as soon as possible.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Alison Clancy
PAS Project Officer
0131 319 8071’
Broughton High School Parent Council 