23 May 2023: The Education Children and Families Committee (ECF) committee met on 27 April 2023.
ECF committee papers and webcast
The City of Edinburgh Council Consultative Committee with Parents (CCwP) met on 10 May 2023. The webcast is available to listen again.
22 February 2023: The JGHS Parent Council sent a letter to the City of Edinburgh Council to raise concerns about the draft budget of the Council that had made proposals to cut education services for 2023/24.
You can read a copy of the letter here:
JGHS Parent Council – budget proposals 2023
Note added 23 February 2023: The BBC News reported that at their meeting today, the City of Edinburgh Council agreed a budget that scrapped the proposed £5.5m cuts to school budgets, and the £370,000 cuts to speech and language therapy.
1 February 2023: Following discussion at the JGHS Parent Council meeting in October 2022, it was agreed that the Parent Council would seek to engage with the City of Edinburgh Council about future accommodation requirements at the School.
The Parent Council has now sent a letter to Edinburgh City Council outlining the our concerns and asking for meaningful dialogue with the Council to address the issues raised.
A copy of the letter is available at the link below:
James Gillespie’s High School Capacity Planning
If you have any comments to make about the issues raised, please send them to the Parent Council.
Updated 31 January 2023: You are invited to an online meeting from 6.30-7.30 pm on Wednesday 1 February 2023 to:
Please contact the City of Edinburgh Council Parental Engagement email account to book a space to attend the meeting, or send your views marked with for the attention of Marie Lyon.
23 January 2023: The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for views on proposals to expand the city’s network of 20mph streets, as well as lowering speed limits on roads that have limits of 40mph or more, which are mainly rural.
20mph speed limit proposals map
Whatever your views about our speed limit proposals, we want to hear from you.
Take part and complete the online survey which is available on the Council’s Consultation and Engagement Hub.
Click here to complete the survey
Please forward this email to any contacts that you feel would be interested in making their views heard on the proposals. The consultation is open and you can feedback until 8 February 2023.
22 January 2023: The City of Edinburgh Council’s Consultative Committee with Parents (CCwP) met on Thursday 19 January. The JGHS Paren Council was represented by our Chair, Sarah Scott.
The committee covered a number of topics, including
Links to the full recording of the webcast and the presentations made at the recent meeting are available below:
For more information about the CCwP please visit the Council’s website:
10 December 2022: A few updates from Connect, the NE/SE Parental Engagement Locality Group and the new Guide to Children’s Rights are given below.
The December 2022 issue of the Connect newsletter is now available
The Edinburgh Council NE/SE Parental Engagement Locality Group met on 23 November 2022.
The meeting minute and presentation given by Stephen Kelly, Senior Education Manager on the National Discussion consultation process, are now available:
NE/SE Localities meeting minute 23 November 2022
Education Reform, Stephen Kelly
The new Guide to Children’s Rights for parents and carers has just been launched.
Children’s rights | Parent Club
The booklet was created by the United Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Parents Network, made up of parenting organisations and Scottish Government policy officials. They have been meeting for over a year to look at how best to inform parents, carers and family members about the rights of their children. The new guide conveys broad universal messaging about children’s rights and has adopted a warm and reassuring tone.
The resource provides information about children’s rights and introduces the UNCRC, which sets out the rights that all children and young people should expect and what they need to grow up happy, healthy and safe. It outlines the central role played by parents and families and also recognises that they need protection and assistance to support the rights and wellbeing of their children.
If you would like any more information please contact Shelly Coyne.
17 November 2022: The NE and SE Locality Meeting for representatives of Parent Councils and Senior Education officers of the City of Edinburgh Council met on 26 October 2022.
Minutes from this meeting are now available.
15 November 2022: Parents may be interested to know that there is a current planning application for a 5G phone mast, which would be located in Whitehouse Loan, opposite the end of Bruntsfield Crescent and beside the entrance to the school.
The proposed mast would be 20m high and accompanied by a set of cabinets at the pavement level.
Details of the application can be found on the City of Edinburgh portal at:
5G mast planning application information
If you would like to make a comment on the application, the closing date is Friday 18 November 2022.
14 October 2022: The City of Edinburgh Council 1 in 5 project, which seeks to raise awareness of child poverty across the city, has just published its 2nd newsletter.
In this edition there is information about free family activities happening through out October, including storytelling, bug hunting, and the Big Draw.
Read all the details in the newsletter:
1 in 5 newsletter, October 2022
The 1 in 5 Newsletter supports the work of the Equity Board and Equity Network groups, and aims to:
JGHS Parent Council 