Next Parent Council Meeting 08/05/2017

The next meeting of the Parent Council will take place at 6.30pm on 8 May 2017 in the LRC at Balerno High School. All parents of pupils at the school are welcome to attend and participate.

Draft Minutes for PC Meeting 13/03/2017 now available

Draft minutes for the Parent Council meeting held on 13 March 2017 in Kirknewton Primary School are now available here

Next Parent Council Meeting – Monday 13 March

The next Parent Council meeting will be on Monday 13 March at 6.30pm in Kirknewton Primary School. This is a change in date to enable us to have an opportunity to see around our newly refurbished feeder primary.

Next Parent Council Meeting – Monday 23 January 2017

The next meeting of the Parent Council will be in Ratho Primary School at 6.30pm on Monday 23 January 2017.

Any parent / carer of a pupil in Balerno High School is welcome to come along. Come and hear what is going on in the school! If you have a particular issue you would like to raise please email balernohspc@gmail.com to ensure your item is added to the agenda.

Latest Parent Council minutes

Draft minutes from the Parent Council AGM and meeting, held on 12/09/16, have been added to the Parent Council section of the website. The slide deck from Lindsay Fullarton’s ‘Parent Council Induction’ presentation and the slide deck accompanying the head teacher’s report have also been added. All of these documents can be found here.

Parent Council AGM

A reminder that the Parent Council AGM and first meeting for session 2016/17 takes place on Monday 12th September at 6.30 pm in the LRC. All parents & carers are welcome.

An updated version of the AGM report can be found here. A small change has been made to the presentation of the figures in the ‘Accounts’ section – the numbers themselves haven’t changed.

Parent Council Annual Report and Head Teacher Recruitment report

The Parent Council’s annual report has been added to the ‘Minutes and Reports’ section of the website in preparation for the AGM on 12th September.

The report (main body and 2 appendices) produced from the results of the Head Teacher recruitment survey conducted in April/May 2016 has also been published on the site.

Both reports can be found here.

Parent Council meeting and AGM

The first Parent Council of the academic year and the Parent Council Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 12th September 2016 at 6.30 pm in the LRC. All parents/carers are welcome.

The first meeting and AGM is a good starting point if you want to actively support the school. The agenda is below. A Parent Council report will be made available prior to the meeting and a short induction will be part of the business on the night.

You can find more information about the Parent Council here.

Minutes of the last Parent Council meeting are available here.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting

Tony Foster, Chair

PARENT COUNCIL AGM – Monday 12th September 2016

AGM agenda

1. Apologies

2. Minutes of last AGM

3. Chair introduction, parent council remit and report

4. Accounts

5. Election of office bearers and new members

6. Close of AGM

Parent Council induction presentation

Meeting of Parent Council

1. Matters Arising from last PC meeting

2. Head Teachers Report / School Update including exam results & class composition

3. PSA Report

4. Senior Pupils Perspective

5. Community Council & Local Updates

6. AOCB & Date of next meeting

Latest Parent Council minutes

Minutes from the Parent Council meeting on 09/05/16 have been added to the ‘Minutes and Reports’ section of the website. You can view them by clicking here.

Parent Council welcomes new Head

The Parent Council are happy to announce Neil McCallum is the successful candidate for Head Teacher at Balerno High School. He is currently Depute Head Teacher at James Gillespies, a well performing high school in Edinburgh.

Information has gone out on wisepay to parents/carers and staff/pupils have been informed.

We’d like to thank Parent Forum members for your help during this process, particularly if you took part in the headteacher survey. We’d also like to thank Balerno pupils who interviewed a very strong list of potential candidates.

We look forward to welcoming Mr McCallum to the school in the very near future.