PARENT VOICE GROUP
PTA-UK MEMBERSHIP NUMER 32818
CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1135797
Minutes
Date of Meeting:
Monday, 5 October 2015
Present:
Lee Brown (Chair)
Kathryn Ruddy
Helen Bullivant
Angela Livingstone
Philip Cawood
Andrew Hannaway-Mackay
Minutes:
Carol Appleton
Debbie Tunn
Vicky Ellis
Sue Ryan
Michelle Weir
Colin Gent, Nunthorpe Academy
Agenda Item & Description
Main Points of Discussion
1. Apologies
Karen Deen
2. Welcome
Debbie Tunn, Vicky Ellis, Sue Ryan
3. Minutes of the
previous meeting
which took place on
23 June 2015
The minutes of the previous meeting were taken as
a true record and signed by Lee Brown.
Action by:
Deadline
date:
Matters outstanding:
a) Technology request
Lee informed the meeting of a donation of
£10,000 which has been made by Ken Home, a
local businessman.
b) Lighting and Sound refurbishment in the Main
Hall
The work has not started yet. Hopefully the work
will take place during the October ½ term.
4. Results Update
A presentation of the recent results was provided to
the meeting.
In response to the question of what actions were in
place to improve English results, LAB replied:
a) Training was being provided to the English staff
b) Teachers are to teach and mark the IGSC exam
c) An Assistant Vice Principal has been appointed
to improve Free School Meal (FSM) achievement
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PARENT VOICE GROUP
PTA-UK MEMBERSHIP NUMER 32818
CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1135797
Agenda Item & Description
Main Points of Discussion
5. Primary Transition
Update
a) Year 7
The year 7 intake is 293, including 2 appeals, so
the academy is full for the year group. There are
plans to make the Year 6 transition week more
focussed to preparing the students for Year 7 by
preparing books and classes to make the start of
the academic year more fluid.
Action by:
Deadline
date:
b) Welcome to Nunthorpe
Over 700 families attended the evening and
there have been a subsequent 35 families who
have had a tour of the academy during the day.
c) Primary results
The primary results for Redcar were the 4th best
in the country.
d) Year 10 Work Experience / Post 16 Experience
Year 10s will now receive a transition once they
have finished exams. This will be to either
Nunthorpe 6th form, Redcar or Middlesbrough
College or work experience if more appropriate.
e) Comments
 Full Value Contracts (FVC) which the
students complete at the start of the year are
too similar or the same across all the
subjects and de-motivates the students – can
this be standardised?
 Summer School was well run and
appreciated.
6. Events:
a) Quiz night
The quiz night (+fish and chips) in the Marton
Sports Club was successful last year so we will
do it again.
Proposed dates: Friday 6 or 13 November
World Challenge to be approached to run
tombola or raffle.
Helen to
book
Colin
b) Ladies’ night
 Currently there are 26 tables with deposits
paid and with other verbal commitments.
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PARENT VOICE GROUP
PTA-UK MEMBERSHIP NUMER 32818
CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1135797
Agenda Item & Description
Main Points of Discussion
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7. Future meetings
PVG have been requested to man the
refreshment area providing a glass of wine
on production of a tickets and then tea,
coffee and drinks.
World Challenge students are to be chased
to confirm commitment to the event.
Learning and Leisure are to be approached
to see if any of the tutors are interested in
providing a stall.
Tickets will be able to be sold at the main
reception.
Advertising to be place on the weekly
bulletin and text sent to parents.
1.
AOB
PVG
Colin
Colin
Jade to be
informed
Colin
Dates for 2015/2016 year PVG meetings are:
Tuesday 1 December
Wednesday 27 January
Thursday 24 March
Monday 23 May
Tuesday 21 June
Other Items:
Deadline
date:
Action by:
All
diarise
to
a) SchoolComms School Gateway
Sean Matthews (from Nunthorpe’s IT team)
requested PVG to participate in trialling
SchoolComms. A register of interest was filled
in and forwarded.
b) SIMS
Frustration with teachers not adding comments
to achievement or behaviour points to inform
parents of reason for award.
Despite students doing well some teachers did
not award any achievement points last year.
Parents have not been informed of the changes
to the rewards being offered this year.
LAB to
raise with
staff
c) Car park
Lee provided an update of how the
refurbishment of the entrance to the academy
was working.
The flow of traffic was better.
Students are safer whilst walking, as they did
not have to cross the car park.
Discussions are on-going requesting the bus
stop be recessed to improve traffic flow.
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PARENT VOICE GROUP
PTA-UK MEMBERSHIP NUMER 32818
CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1135797
Agenda Item & Description
Main Points of Discussion
Action by:
d) Food queues
Lee agreed the food queues were too long but
was restricted by the layout of the academy.
There are four food stations with three doing hot
food.
500 students access the outlets at break time
700 students access the outlets at lunchtime
There is a visit planned for Wednesday 7
October to review the facilities and have
suggestions for improvement.
There is potential funding available which the
academy will be bidding for.
LAB to
update at
next
meeting
Deadline
date:
1.12.2015
Date of next meeting: 1 December 2015
ACCEPTED AS A TRUE RECORD OF THE MEETING HELD:
NAME OF CHAIR:
LEE BROWN SIGNATURE: ...........................................................................
DATE:
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