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It’s not all fundraising — An insight into Parent Council support
Thinking of getting involved with the Broughton Parent Council, but not sure what the Council does? A lot of people think it means fundraising. There is a certain amount of that. But parents who volunteer with us use their time and professional skills in many other ways to support the management and development of our school.
This month, for example, a parent spent time with the 6 probationer teachers who are preparing for their first round of interviews as qualified teachers. Doing what? Reviewing their presentation skills, helping them sharpen their teaching applications, and prepping them for interviews. Why? Because this parent is a professional recruiter. The probationers were really grateful, and so are we.
You probably have a professional skill the school could use. If you would like to support Broughton but don’t quite know how, why don’t you drop us an e-mail, telling us about your skills and experience? We would love to match you with a project, or even take your counsel on a project we haven’t thought of. There’s bound to be something. There’s always a way for everyone to help!
calling all parents and carers — new study!
The Children & Families Department are seeking groups of parents/carers or teenagers who may be interested in contributing to the development of training around supporting teenagers mental health and emotional well-being. This would build on the already successful Raising Children With Confidence course but would be aimed at parents of teenagers and include the latest research and theories around adolescent brain development and behaviours. In order to inform the development of this programme, they are seeking the views of parents and carers of teenagers across the city.
Since the Children & Families Department appear to desire groups of parents and carers, who will participate in the study in blocs, please, if you are interested, contact the Broughton Parent Council in the first instance, at our usual ‘intouch’ address; if do we get a group interested, we will pass on the names together.
We hope there is some uptake on this. It could be a very useful study indeed!
Our mountaineer William Bosi does it again
Just wanted to let you know that William won the Scottish bouldering championships last Saturday in Glasgow!
200 Club winners for May
Winners from this month’s 200 Club drawing are …
1st, £40.00, S Mackerron
2nd, £25.00, Mr N Bagshaw
3rd, £19.00, Mrs L Johnston
4th, £13.00, Mrs R Fraser
5th, £10.00, Mrs E Todd
Total raised for the school: £266.00
Some interesting facts about this year’s activity, with 1 more month to go before the financial year end:
• Two of the winners this month are former head teachers.
• At least 9 members will end the year with a clear profit.
• 8 of these are ladies.
• At least 3 members will profit by more than £20 over the year.
• The biggest winner this year (by far!) is Maggie Rosario, with 6 wins and a £40 profit (so far!).
• No surprise, Maggie also has the longest winning streak — but after winning five months in row, none of her numbers came up this month!
• A further 12 people have won twice, and 2 more have won 3 times.
• In all, 39 people have won something this year, out of 63 members.
• Current surplus generated so far is £1,701, which will likely rise to £1,850 next month. That’s some fundraising! Why not give it a go yourself?
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