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STOCKBRIDGE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING 19 May 2004 @ 6.00 pm, STOCKBRIDGE SCHOOL LIBRARY 

1. WELCOME AND APOLOGIES

Present: Anna Beynon (AB); Alex Black (Alex B); Robert Black; Jacqui Horsburgh; Elaine Moran.

Apologies: Barbara Cartwright; Michael Dixon (Local Councillor); Moira McGovern; Alan Thomas

In Attendance: Graham Bodenham (PTA); Susan MacInnes (Clerk); 

JH was welcomed to her last Board meeting as Headteacher and the Board wished her all the best in her new career with HMI.

2. MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING

Minutes of the previous meeting were approved.

AT had intimated his resignation as parent member of the Board and SM was also stepping down as Clerk to the Board. Announcements for their replacements would be placed in "The Bridge".

3. FEEDBACK ON PROPOSED SESSION DATES 05/06

Option A had been agreed

4. REVISED P1 & P2 HOURS

These are to be changed in accordance with the McCrone initiative proposals. The requirements are for all teachers to have 22.5 hours of pupil contact time throughout P1-P7. 

There is to be a rationalisation of all P1 and P2 hours across the city, to be implemented by August 2004. The new hours will be as follows:-

Mon - Thurs: 8.55 - 12.05; 13.00 - 14.55
Friday: 8.55 - 12.25

These changes will slightly increase the contact time for P1 and P2 and will be intimated to the parents by letter shortly.

The corresponding reduction in contact time for class teachers in P3 -P7 will be supplemented by an additional 2.5 hours of specialist teaching (or teaching by a promoted post teacher), bringing the total class time to 25 hours per week.



5. SCHOOL BOARD MAILBOX

This is to be set up on a similar basis to the existing PTA mailbox to allow for parents to communicate with the Board.


6. PTA AND SCHOOL FAIR

The PTA is struggling with numbers for their committee and for advance offers of help with the fair which is to be held on Saturday 5 June. However, it was expected that there would be enough support from volunteers to staff all stalls and that there will be the usual good turnout from parents and children.

7. AOB

There was a discussion about the staffing of the school once JH had left. Mrs Turner will be Acting HT and Ms Hobbs the Acting PT. Mrs Richardson and Mrs Reid will provide supply teaching cover, and both these teachers are well known to the pupils. The interviews for the new HT are set for Friday 11 June.

It was noted that as the school roll has dropped the school is no longer entitled to a DHT 

AB agreed to investigate the possibility of obtaining some benefit from the donation made to Scottish primary school pupils by the businessman Tom Hunter. JH suggested that the Council's Primary Sports Co-ordinator might be involved in this.

GB advised that he had attended the most recent meeting of the Leith and Northeast Edinburgh Local Development Committee, which had discussed the introduction of 20 mph zones in the roads around schools in the city. The next meeting was to be 15 June and he will report back on any further developments which impact on Stockbridge.

The next meeting of the Board will be in attendance at the PTA AGM on Monday 14 June 2004, when AB will present the Board's Annual Report. The dates of Board meetings for the next session 04/05 are yet to be arranged.


Susan E MacInnes (Clerk)
31 May 2004

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