MINUTES FOR COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON 2ND FEB 2017@CRUDIE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Welcome- Robert Bartlett opened the meeting and thanked everyone for coming.
Present- Mrs Rickard, Mrs Gallon, Mary-leigh Malarky, Angela Arnold, Mrs Ironside, Robert Bartlett, Pamela Bartlett, Iain Taylor
Apologies- Karen Riddell, Elaine Morrison.
Head teacher report
Mrs Rickard gave an update on the improvement plan. Areas covered were:  
Numeracy- Mr Jackson, Mrs Young and Mrs Rickard will all be attending Number Sense twilight sessions to help raise attainment in Numeracy. Mrs Rickard is also looking at options for mental maths resources to support what is already happening in class.
 Health and well being - Mrs Rickard spoke about the Bounceback programme and how it develops resilience and helps children bounce back from things. This links in with the work staff have been undertaking on Restorative practice. A leaflet explaining Restorative Practice will be going home to parents. She showed us the badges staff are wearing with the key questions they go through with pupils when a situation happens. Restorative Practice allows pupils to think about a situation from all points of view and come up with a solution as to how to make things better.
Continuous reporting
Mrs Rickard showed everyone at the meeting an example of a new style report card they would like to use. The committee felt this was a much more personalised way for a teacher and child to report back and was agreed at the meeting to use this. Report cards will be out before the Easter holidays.
Mrs Rickard checked to see if parents had managed to access their class blogs and wondered how everyone felt about it being public. 
This would mean that other schools can see what each other are doing including pictures and work. At this time the committee felt to keep it just to class access and not to have it public at this time.
Treasurers report
Mary Leigh reported The balance of the parent council fund at the beginning of the school year was £2435,53. After paying for laptops swimming trips, Christmas activities and the Ziggy and Toni evening. The balance is now £673.96. With regards to Ziggy and Toni after all expenses were paid, we made a loss of £17 for the night. Fundraising is a must to get our finances back to what they were. All ideas are welcome.

Swimming and bus
There will be a block of 6 swimming lessons for P5-7 pupils in the summer term. It was decided at the meeting that this year it will be £3 per head for swimming. There will be no reduction for siblings in the same class. 
Fundraising
Lots of ideas were discussed. We went on the most popular feedback from parents so between now and summer the planned events are:
Valentine disco 17th Feb 
RagBag 20th February
Smartie tubes given to children who will then ask friends and family to save there 20ps in it- and return filled tubes to school
Spring into spring sponsored event 23rd March parents will be invited
Quiz night date tbc
Family photos date tbc 
Beetle drive  date tbc 
Robert brought the meeting to a close and thanked everyone for coming.
Next meeting will be held in school on the 27th April at 9.15am. All welcome.