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Welcome to our Parent Council

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Every parent who has a child at Kinloch Rannoch Primary School is a member of the Parent Forum and can expect to:

  • Receive information about the school and its activities.

  • Hear more in future about what partnership with parents means in their school.

  • Be invited to be involved in ways and time that suit them.

  • Participate in deciding how the parent representative body, the Parent Council, is organised and how it operates.

  • Identify issues they want the parent Council to work on with the school.

  • Be asked their opinion by the Parent Council about issues relating to the school and the education it provides.

  • Work in partnership with staff.

  • Enjoy taking part in the life of the school in whatever way they can.

 

The Parent Council is a group of parents selected by members of the Parent Forum to represent all the parents of children at a school. Parents are welcome to join the Parent Council. Our Parent Council meets once per term, with additional meetings to support fundraising activities as appropriate. Contact details for our Parent Council Chairperson are available at the school.

PKC Parent Councils

The Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 became legislation in September 2006. This Act proposed changes which were implemented in August 2007 to abolish School Boards and replace them with Parent Councils.

 

All parents of pupils attending school are automatically members of the Parent Forum for that school and will be entitled to have a say in what happens at the school.

 

The Parental Involvement Act aims to do several things:

  • It aims to help parents become more involved with their child’s education and in schools.

  • It places duties on Scottish Ministers and education authorities to promote parental involvement, and a duty on each education authority to produce a strategy for parental involvement.

  • It introduces a new system of Parent Councils to replace School Boards, aiming to make it easier for parents to express their views.

 

All schools have been working with parents to determine if a Parent Council is to be established for the school. The role of the Parent Council is to:

  • Support the school in its work with parents.

  • Represent the views of all parents.

  • Encourage links between the school, parents, pupils, pre-school groups and the wider community.

  • Report back to the Parent Forum.

 

There are currently 76 schools in Perth and Kinross which have established a Parent Council. 

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