Parent Council

Parent Council meeting on 15 December 2020

4th December 2020: The next meeting of the James Gillespie’s High School Parent Council meeting will take place on Tuesday 15 December at 7pm, and will focus on exams and assessments.

The meeting will be held on MS Teams, and we will send out the link via the school email.

If you have any questions in advance of the meeting, please send them to the Parent Council email and we will try to include them in the update.

Parent Council Annual General Meeting on 14 October 2020

8 October 2020: We would like to invite you to the next Parent Council meeting which will be our AGM and will take place online on Wednesday 14 October at 7pm.

The MS Teams link will be sent on Tuesday 13 October by the JGHS Admin team.

The proposed agenda is below.

Chair’s Report and update – Ailsa Macintosh, chair
Treasurer’s Report – Ros Ingle, treasurer
Election of PC Committee members and post holders
Head Teacher Overview – Donald Macdonald
Update for S1 parents/carers – Ben Lewis, Deputy Head Teacher
Questions & Answers via the Q&A typed chat facility

We very much hope you will be able to join us.

Upcoming Parent Council meeting on 22 September 2021

17 September 2021: We would like to invite you to the next Parent Council meeting which will take place online on Tuesday 22 September at 7 pm. We will email out the MS Teams link on Monday 21 September from JGHS Admin team.

We will hear from:

Donald Macdonald, (HT) – Overview
Jeff Warden, (DHT) – Digital Learning
Deirdre O’Brien, (DHT) – Learning and Teaching
Ian Porter/Ben Lewis (DHTs) – Pupil Support
Ian Porter/Ben Lewis (DHTs) – PE update
Bob Shankland (DHT) – SQA update

Questions & Answers via the Q&A typed chat facility in Teams. If you would like to raise any issues or ask any questions ahead of the meeting please email us by 2 pm Monday 21 September and where possible these will be included in the presentations.

Email the Parent Council at jghscouncilcomms@gmail.com

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Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers

Thank you everyone for collecting Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers. So far you have handed in 3,000 with 5 weeks to go when Sainsbury’s will still be issuing vouchers. Please keep collecting and filling up the box at the school office and please ask your friends and family to help us reach our 2017 target.

World Book Day

World book day takes place in the UK on 2nd March and this year we are asking if you would like you to donate a book to the school via our new Amazon Wish List: http://bit.ly/JGHS-wishes. There are a huge range of books to choose from; every book donated gets a plastic cover to keep it fresh and a label inside to say it was donated to the school by you. Thank you.