5 June 2025: The JGHS Parent Council held their last meeting of this school year on Wednesday 4 June – many thanks to all those able to attend.
Agenda and reports
Meeting agenda:
- Focus on Maths teaching at JGHS – Miss Ashling Dolan, CL Maths
- Report and updates from the Parent Council, including:
- capacity and rising rolls
- finance and fundraising, including report from James Gillespie’s Trust
- Discussion of issues with particular relevance to S1-S3
- Headteachers update, including reports on Short Life Working Groups on mobile phones, communications and homework – Mr Neil McCallum
- Q&A
The meeting minutes, and copies of the presentations and reports from the meeting are now available:
Draft meeting minutes (Padraic Kinsella; opens as pdf)
Parent Council update (opens as a pdf)
Maths teaching at JGHS – Miss Dolan (opens as pdf)
JGHS Maths padlet (discussed at the meeting)
Headteachers report – Mr McCallum (opens as pdf)
Minutes of meeting of James Gillespie’s Trust 29 April 2025 (opens as pdf)
Mobile phone policy
Updated 12 June: As was discussed at the meeting on 4 June , the school has now issued a new draft policy on mobile phone use in school:
JGHS draft mobile phone policy
The school has asked for feedback from parents and carers via the form below:
Mobile phone policy feedback
Next meeting
The next meeting of the Parent Council wil be on Tuesday 2 September. This will be held online, and the joining link will shared by the School after the summer break.
JGHS Parent Council 