Shawlands Academy PTC Minute of meeting of Monday 30th March 2015, 7pm Academy Conference Room

1. Welcome and Apologies Present: Kevin Kane (Chair), Jan Ziervogel (Treasurer), Patricia Hunter, Ann Downie, Lesley Turan, John Donnelly, Jane Wright(Minutes), Mrs Grant, Claire Scally, Kath Dransart, Susan Haynes

Apologies: Mohammed Shafique, Farooq Razaaq, Derrick Wright

2. Minute and Matters Arising 2.1 Parent Council Facebook page

Jan investigating use of a Facebook page to allow other parents/carers to see minutes of meetings and other relevant paperwork. It was agreed to set up an open group with Jan and Claire to act as adminstrators and pre-approve all posts.

2.2 Interview Workshops

Susan and Lesley meeting with Rabia to arrange interview workshops.

2.3 Parent Evening Booking System Mrs Grant confirmed that the school would continue to use the parent booking system. 2.4 Scrutiny Committee Meeting Kevin attended the Scrutiny Committee Meeting discussing the change in catchment areas. He reported that the meeting endorsed the Education Dept. recommendation by a majority of 8 to 5.

3. Finance 3.1 The current balance in the PTC account is £4,188.62. Following a short discussion Jan indicated that she would details of the Purchase Fund and the Achievement fund totals to the next meeting and to allow of discussion about transfer the these funds for the PTC bank account.

4. Creative Shawlands Academy Event 4.1 Ann spoke on behalf of the sub group and updated the meeting on the discussions around the planning of the event.

Page 1 of 3  Upstairs area to include Art displays with Buy-it-now prices or the option to bid at auction. Kenny (Art Dept) will supply a list of frames required.  The stage will be used for music/ drama/ gymnastic presentations

 The downstairs area will be seating/ eating/ food stalls with some music possibly in a ‘busker’ style. There will also be displays from other groups within the school.

 There will be a raffle of work donated by local artists.

 Some fundraising activities to include face painting, mehndi and beat the goalie will also be laid on.

 Mrs Grant will discuss with Cath Sinclair the possibility of approaching the feeding primaries schools to ask their P7s to preform.

 There will be a photography competition with the title ‘Shawlands’

 The sub group is exploring the opportunity of asking a local celebrity to open the event.

 The use of an app to take card payments is also being explored.

Mrs Grant suggested also linking with Hollybrook ASN school to widen the scope of the event. Mrs Grant and John gave some feedback of the set up of a previous similar event and Mrs Grant indicated that she would forward some photos of the previous art sale. Patricia agreed to liaise with Laura Gilpin to discuss the running of the previous event.

5. Head Teachers Report

Mrs Grant gave a brief report and following some discussion it was agreed that Kevin would contribute an article about the work of the PTC for the school newsletter.

6. AOCB

6.1 No other business discussed.

Page 2 of 3 7. Date of next meeting: Monday 27th April 2015 at 7pm.

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