PARENT VOICE
NOTES OF MEETING HELD ON TUESDAY 9 DECEMBER 2014 6.30PM IN AF9
Present: B Lowe, C McVeigh, V Purdy, P Mickley, K Stoodley, P Wood, H George,
L George, K Eastwod
Apologies: L Caygill, K Binks, C Clegg, T Smeaton
In attendance: A Jackson, G Dutton
1. Minutes
Accepted
2. Matters arising
None
3. Parent Forum
P Mickley attended the meeting she gave an explanation and the objectives of
the forum as a discussion group consisting of staff/students/parents and the
community. The chair of governors also attends. It was suggested that some of
the meeting may run later in the day to allow better attendance. It is hoped that 3
parents from this group could attend the meetings – no further parents were
available to attend the meeting on the 15 December 2.30pm – T Smeaton to be
e-mailed the date as she did express an interest at the last meeting.
4. Finance
A balance of £921.25 in the account 2 x £10 charges for the account will be
pulled back into the account. A Jackson/V Purdy had a meeting with the
Co-operative Bank with a view to opening a charity account with no charges.
Parent Voice gave their authority to go ahead with the new bank account.
A past bid of £100 donated to the outside sixth form library area remains unused
as Vinci would not allow furniture on this area. Can this money to transferred to
the sixth form social area refurbishment? Permission was given for this money to
be transferred. It is hoped a bid for the sixth form area refurbishment can be
ready for the January meeting.
5.
Parental Portal
A Jackson gave a presentation on the new parental portal – one change from the
old VLE system is that both students and parents share the same password.
Parents can now see the students e-mail account. The new system is still a work
in progress but parents were encouraged to give feedback.
 Could we have e-mail alerts for letters
 The subject information looks really positive.
 Could a short video be put on the web-site on how to use the portal
 Lateness/missing lessons were very informative.
The problems with the old system was that once data had been imputed it was
impossible to correct if the need occurred. This is one of the reasons we looked
at changing the system.
6. AOB
Could we have the Fashion Show Posters ready for the next meeting?
Could the disabled parking bays be dual purpose (visitor parking) as there seems to
be lack of visitor parking. We are continuing looking at parking sixth form students
now have parking permits to park alongside the Muga pitch. The front of the school
does allow parking for vulnerable students’ parents/taxi’s.
Date of next meeting Tuesday 13 January 6.30pm in AF9
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE OF DATE