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’
Two updates up close: ‘Nationals in a Nutshell’ and ‘Revision Resources for Learners’
The National Parent Forum of Scotland reminds us to have up-close looks at ‘Nationals in a Nutshell‘ and ‘Revision Resources for Learners‘, available with many other resources too on the ‘GLOW Scotland’ blog. The Nationals update focusses on assessment requirements and provisions.
E-news update, Spring 2014, from the National Parent Forum of Scotland
This just in from Iain Ellis, Chair of the National Parent Forum of Scotland:
‘We are pleased to start the year by providing you with some great new information leaflets about the National Qualifications. You can find ‘Nationals: Assessment in a Nutshell’ and ‘Pointers for Parents and Pupils: Supporting Learning and Revision’ here. Every S3 and S4 parent/carer is to receive an envelope of information leaflets about the new National Qualifications, including these, via schools. Please ask at your school if you have not yet received this. E-mail us with any further queries or comments. We are very grateful to the Scottish Government and the Association of Directors of Education Scotland for their support. Several of our National Parent Forum area reps have S4 children — so we know how important clear, accessible information is. In this first year of the National Qualifications, we greatly appreciate how hard teachers and pupils are working.
At a recent launch event for our two new leaflets, S3 and S4 parents from Dumbarton Academy had the opportunity to gather information and to discuss the new qualifications with Scottish Government, Education Scotland, BBC Learning and Scholar. Feedback from the event was very positive, with parents welcoming the chance to fully engage. We hope to see more of this type of event-based, face-to-face parental involvement in schools across Scotland.
The National Parent Forum has been following and supporting the Curriculum for Excellence journey from the outset, raising your questions and issues, working with education partners to strengthen communication and interaction with parents. We will continue to do this. Please keep your queries and comments coming.’
CLICK FOR THE FULL ONLINE E-UPDATE.
New Courses from the Scottish Parent Teacher Council
The Scottish Parent Teacher Council, in partnership with the Edinburgh Council, are offering 5 short courses, free of charge, to all interested parents and school staff members, on a wide range of topics. All sessions run from 6:30 to 8:30. Topics, dates, and locations are below. If you would like to attend any or all of these sessions, please contact the Council’s Graham Douglas, at Graham.Douglas@edinburgh.gov.uk.
“PARENT COUNCIL ESSENTIALS”
on
Monday 3rd March
at
St Thomas of Aquins RC High School
Chalmers Street, EH3 9NH
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“FOCUS ON COMMUNICATIONS”
on
Wednesday 2nd April
at
Drummond Community High School
41 Bellevue Place, EH7 4BS
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“ORGANISING SOCIAL & FUNDRAISING EVENTS”
on
Monday 26 May
at
Leith Academy
20 Academy Park, EH6 8JQ
“PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE GROUPS (PVG) LEGISLATION FOR PARENT COUNCILS”
on
Tuesday 10th June
at
Boroughmuir High School
Viewforth, EH10 4LR
………
“PARENT COUNCIL ESSENTIALS – the next steps”
on
Wednesday 10th September
at
Broughton High School
29 East Fettes Avenue, EH4 1EG
Broughton High School Parent Council 