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Marjorie Temperley, Aberdeenshire Council's Education Support Officer (Parental Involvement), has asked us to publicise a survey on absence reporting:
Dear Parent Council Chairs,
Aberdeenshire Council is currently reviewing the way parents/carers report their child(ren)'s absence from school, with a view to making the process easier and less time consuming for both parents/carers and staff based in school.
Please can we therefore, ask you to take part in our short online survey on reporting school absenteeism. Please click on the following link to take you directly to the online survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/aberdeenshire_school_absenteeism
Points to note:
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- Should you have children at more than one school in Aberdeenshire, please can we ask you to complete the survey for all the schools your children attend.
- The survey can be accessed at anytime from now until 2300 on Wednesday 19 February 2014
If you are able, please can you promote the survey to your Parent Forum to ensure we collate as many views as possible.
Thank you for your support in publicising this to your parent forum wherever possible.
Kind regards
Marjorie
The minutes from the December 2013 meeting are now available.
The next meeting will be on Thursday March 6th at 7pm in the school library.
If you have anything that you would like to raise please contact any Parent Council member.
Parent Council meetings are open - any parent/carer is welcome to attend.
(Apologies for not having posted reminders for the December and February meetings. All meeting dates are listed under the Meetings link).
The latest e-newsletter from the National Parent Forum of Scotland is now out: Nov/Dec e-newsletter.
There's a wealth of information in there, but one thing they have particularly asked us to highlight is their ICT in Schools survey. There's a link to the survey from the e-newsletter and they would love it if as many parents as possible could complete it. You'll need to rope your children in to help!
Thank you to all those who, over the last few years, tirelessly attended meetings, wrote, emailed and petitioned to make clear their concerns surrounding the implementation of CfE Senior Phase in Aberdeenshire. While the end result for our school, which was communicated at a recent S3 parents evening, is not necessarily the one that parents would have liked, it is not for want of trying.
Throughout the process we have been fortunate to enjoy the support of our school’s Management Team who delayed committing to a 2014-15 S4 timetable model for as long as possible. However, the point was reached at…
As reported previously, on August 29th 2013 the Parent Council wrote an open letter to our Rector on behalf of the parents of Banchory Academy, formally setting out the parents’ wishes regarding senior phase implementation in our school.
We have received a reply from the Rector dated September 12th 2013.
Please click here to read the reply.
** Update **
Following the reply of September 12th we sent a follow-up email on September 17th to the various parties from the Scottish Government and Education Scotland who were copied on our original open letter.
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