Parents

MINUTES OF THE POOLEWE PRIMARY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING HELD ON MONDAY 23^rd AUGUST 2004

IN POOLEWE SCHOOL

Present: Margaret Young, Angela Maclean, Karen Hardie, Alison Stott, Marsail Maclennan.

Apologies: Elizabeth Macdonald-Buchanan, Jim Buchanan & Allan Gorman

1. Minutes of the Last Meeting

    The minutes of the last meeting held on 31^st May 2004 were accepted as correct.

2. Matters Arising

    None

3. The Head Teacher’s Report

    M Young reported on the following:

    School Hours

    The parents’ majority vote for school hours will rule but any change will have to be

    officially approved before implementation.

    Nursery

    A £850 grant has been awarded for books for the nursery cluster.

    Preparations are underway for HMI who are expected soon.

    Thank-you to staff for their work on the car boot sale; £320 was raised to be split between

    the school & nursery.

    Area Education Forum  22^nd September 2004 in Ullapool.

    Funding Market Place Event  30^th August 2004 in Inverness.

4. HMI Inspection Action Plan

    Due to be discussed with parents. 5-14 will also be explained at this time.

    Math workshop for parents requested.

    P1 parents to come in to discuss the Oxford Reading Tree & Jolly Phonics

    within the next fortnight.

5. Finance-School Board

Various details to be confirmed with Jim Buchanan.

6. Finance- School Fundraising

Money raised from GWC is to go back to them; amount still to be confirmed.

Photo of phase 1 of playground is to be sent to the GWC committee.

Sale of Work  13th November 2004.

School concert provisionally 15^th December 2004.

Money club has been successful

7. Repairs & Maintenance

            Outside of school has been painted but repair to portacabin not yet done.

Wiring is in the hands of architectural services & may now be done in October.

Electric bell is to be installed at this time & hot water problem resolved also.

New windows have been requested.

A new front door has been fitted at the nursery.

Margaret Young will get Health & Safety Officer back to look at the playground wall.

8. Playground Development Update

Member from council planning department visited in June-he was of the opinion that the drainage was the responsibility of Scottish Water. Scottish Water disagreed with this,but after H C contacted them they cleared the drains at the back & checked which drains go down to Cathy’s & Jean’s; they will get back to Angela with drawings of the surface drains at the front of the school.

We have two options:

1.      Macleod & Mitchell apply for planning permission on behalf of the school & a planning officer will advise what we can/cannot do.

2.      We contact Architectural & Structural Engineers to visit the site

            It was generally agreed that option 1 is the quickest route & we will go ahead with this.

9. AOB

Angela unfortunately wishes to resign as chairperson because of other commitments.

She will remain in office until the next meeting & thereafter be a board member.

Head lice combs are to be obtained from the nurse & given out to the pupils.

10.  Date of Next Meeting

15^th November 2004