<p> Woodley Cluster Meeting </p><p>Thursday 26th June 2014</p><p>St Dominics 9.30 – 11:30 </p><p>Present : SL;CE;NB;CT;JS;DB;AM;RV;DA(WBC)</p><p>Action 1 Minutes of Last meeting agreed</p><p>2 Matters Arising from previous minutes :</p><p>Payroll FTP : RV felt it will improve security CT will look into and feedback </p><p>SFVS - DA informed that D Munday will feedback only if WBC has any concerns. Also DA if the school gets audited SFVS is looked into. </p><p>NB suggested that schools could buddy up to check each other’s processes NB</p><p>3 Life Cloud :</p><p>Most Schools using it are not happy. Three options given to school by D Congdon: 1) use only between 9:00 – 10:00 am RV 2) Opt Out 3) Pay invoice only in September when new version is introduced</p><p>Some school are using E School and some Office 360.</p><p>4 Sports Grant :</p><p>Will continue to be paid to schools for 03 years. £8000.00 plus an extra £5.00 / per pupil. All students who were 5 years old during the DA January Census qualify. Sports Grant can be used to pay UPS teachers</p><p>5 Online Parent Booking for school appointments :</p><p>St Dominics not going for it at the moment JS NB is getting a free trial and will give name of company NB 0703</p><p>The following updates were given by DA of WBC : 6 Bursar Conference - WBC has received mixed feedback about conference</p><p>Pupil Premium – Many schools not sure how to maintain records. Bursars not responsible for maintaining records or increasing level of attainment. </p><p>Free School Meals applications: RV stated that many get rejected regularly. DA will send information about when we will receive new leaflets regarding Pupil Premium. DA</p><p>DA will contact schools individually if any queries arise about budgets. All traded services and other journals all charged in June wise submitted July 2014. Aggresso - to go live in September. August wise reports that will be sent out in September will be on old format. </p><p>Timetable to change codes still to be decided. DA</p><p>DA will send sample of new format. </p><p>Benchmarking – Staffing costs were discussed. Recommended to use school block DA as a basis for calculating percentage.</p><p>DA will reconfirm if after school club income to be used in the above. </p><p>Water Bills – large variation between all schools. All agreed to use control methods on ALL amount of flushing in urinals.</p><p>SEN Top Up – DA attended conference on Fair Funding and recommended if an DA individual case needs a top up to approach SEN Cluster forum. </p><p>Cluster Procurement – question put forward by CT. All agreed that a lot of work will CT be involved in moving away from WBC. Time constraints a big stumbling block. JS advised we should start using cluster for procuring grants CT attended a bid writing course and fed back that community involvement has to be a very large part of any grant. </p><p>7 Date of next meeting - Tuesday 08th October 2014</p><p>Venue – Rivermead</p><p>Chair – Nolene </p><p>Minutes - Cindy</p><p>Date of next meeting: Venue: Chair: Minutes:</p>