ST MARY’S EPISCOPAL PRIMARY SCHOOL DUNBLANE School Board Meeting 22nd November 2005 Minutes Present David Reid Kay Kay Cox Shena McLelland Carola Campbell Mary Paterson Jenny Kinvig Rev Janice Cameron ALSO Fiona Allen Melanie Hughes Jill Wisher Joanne Clark Terry McCabe Alan Richards Martin Bell Caroline Paterson Paul Gornall 1. Apologies Paul Holmes, Sarah Carroll 2. Minutes of Last Meeting Mary Paterson has amendments to 18/10/05 minutes. These are to be circulated by DRK. 3. Matters Arising a) Position of clerk to school board to be advertised again. Job consists of attending board meetings and producing minutes, answering/circulating mail and possibly a few other admin tasks. It is a paid position. b) Chris Sawyer resigned from the board as a co-opted member. He will attend in a church capacity if Janice Cameron cannot attend. DRK thanked him for all his efforts. c) Martin Bell is willing to be co-opted onto School Board. DRK to circulate documents detailing procedures required. d)Parent Contact Telephone Tree being updated. Crisis Management Policy put into action on Friday 18/11 when there was a central heating failure. MP reported that events went smoothly; one child walked home without the school’s knowledge. MP to talk to the children about safety. 4. Correspondence DRK received a letter from HMIe inviting comment on progress made by the school since the report of April 2004. Kitty McWilliam and Pat Godley visited school on Wed 16/11 to follow up HMIe report with MP as part of their regular link visits. 5/6 HT Report and School Development Plan a) MP had circulated a revised Nursery Handbook. All the nursery staff had had input into the handbook. One amendment to the aims, Episcopalian to have its own bullet point. b) Evaluation. MP to put out a consultation form on Reading on Friday 25/11/05 because of all the changes she has introduced. b) Care Commission visited Nursery. Tony Clarke very happy with nursery, positive feedback on the standard of care and health and safety. c) Monitoring Learning and Teaching. MP has updated the St Mary’s Monitoring Learning and Teaching policy November 2005, it was discussed with staff at the Nov 05 in-service day. The school board will give feedback at the next meeting. It was agreed that a note will go on the website saying all policies are available to parents on request, since it would be impractical to have them all on the site. 7. Finances MP supplied breakdowns of devolved school expenditure from April 05-Oct 05. On her arrival in January 05 she received a healthy balance from the Acting HT, who had spent cautiously to allow the incoming HT to decide where funding was best deployed. MP has updated the library, with an emphasis on purchasing novels, book bags for the younger children. She was also able to purchase 2 whiteboards for P2/3 and P4/5. £1000 was spent on new language resources, £200 on jolly phonics. Intended spending: £300 refurbishing main office/HT office, £400 software for laptops and £100 per classroom for “extras”. 8. AOCB a) School Board Training. MP suggested a training session for the board so that a shared understanding of roles and duties could be clarified. Bob McGowan to be asked to ‘train’ at a board meeting. MP action b) Jenny Kinvig read out a letter from teachers about the Open Door Policy. They fully support MP’s leadership and ask that the OPD issue be laid to rest. The SB agreed to this. c) Flowers were sent to Siobhan Hewitt and Veronica Currie on the birth of their daughters from the SB. Should we say they sent thanks? d) The School Board wished to congratulate David MacKenzie, Head Teacher at Dunblane High School for managing to get his school nominated as Sunday Times Scottish State School of the Year 2005. e) Kay Cox thanked David Reid Kay, retiring chairman, and Carola Campbell for their efforts on the School Board 9.Date of next meeting Monday 16th January 2006 at 7pm to coincide with PPG. Lorraine Sanda to be invited.