Author Archive for Billy

Objection Form

Published
by
Billy
on November 10, 2008
in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School, Parental Assistance and Parental Involvement
. 0 Comments

**Note** This post is ’stickied’ to the top of the page, new content will be below it.

You can use this form to automatically send your objections or comments to all four Bucksburn Councillors and David Leng(Head of the ACC Department involved in this). We’ve even filled in an example - use this or write your own.
A copy will also be sent to the parent council - we will not use your personal information for any purpose. We are just counting the emails sent.

Full Name
Address
-OR-
Phone Number
Email address 
Use bucksburn@bucksburn.info if you want to hide your email.
Comments
(Clicking will go to a thank you page)

If you are not redirected to the thank you page and instead get the 404 “You are looking for something that just isn’t here” please try the form again. Occasionally the site has a bit of lag due to technical reasons that I won’t go in to! If you don’t get the thank you confirmation page your email did not send.
Councillor McDonald has responded to the default form above with the following—
Continue reading ‘Objection Form’

Audio Site Access

Published
by
Billy
on November 12, 2008
in Parental Assistance
. 0 Comments

You can now listen to our posts by clicking the red buttons at the top of the posts.

You can also download the site as a podcast by pointing your podcast client towards http://podcasts.odiogo.com/bucksburn-school-parent-council/podcasts-xml.php or if you use itunes just click here.

It’s free and automatically generated and yet it’s surprisingly good quality. This should help enable those who can’t read the posts easily for whatever reason to better access our information.

New Domain

Published
by
Billy
on November 10, 2008
in Bucksburn Parent Council and Site News
. 0 Comments

I’ve registered http://bucksburn.info as the new address for this website - save it to your bookmarks!

All old links should still work.

Help The Beacon Community Centre

Published
by
Billy
on November 6, 2008
in Bucksburn Community
. 0 Comments

This may not be a school issue directly but I have been asked to promote the Beacon Community Centre’s petition to help keep the Beacon within the community and not handed over to a Sports Trust.

The meeting has already happened but the petition is still available for signatures. There are copies in the Beacon Community Centre and I have copies here too. Here’s a link to the poster (.rtf) and here’s what it says…

Continue reading ‘Help The Beacon Community Centre’

Public Consultation

Published
by
Billy
on November 3, 2008
in Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School, Helpful Publications and Parental Involvement
. 1 Comment

This Thursday sees the public consultation event held in Bankhead Academy at 19:00. Please come to this and show your support for the school. The parent council and PTA are meeting shortly beforehand to help out with clearing up anything you may feel needs to be addressed as well as just provide someone to sit with!

If you wish to view the consultation document it is available by following this link (.pdf file) and there is a hard copy in the school.

The parent council/PTA have developed their own views on key points requiring attention and would encourage all parents to speak with us with any concerns and to find out our opinions.

Bucksburn After School Care

Published
by
Billy
on October 1, 2008
in Bucksburn Primary School and Parental Assistance
. 0 Comments

I’ve been forwarded this email from Lynn, our Chairperson, in respect of the proposed after school care currently attempting launch.

Dear All,

Many thanks to the 5 parents who attended the meeting held at the Beacon Community Centre on Wed 10th Sept.

A short presentation was given by CLICC, before the floor was opened up to the parents for questions, after which, the group agreed that CLICC should take on the management of the project.

CLICC will now proceed to write their own business plan before registering with the Care Commission. This is a process that can take anything from 3 to 6 months, but due to the work that has already been put in place by the Development Officers, the process will hopefully not take quite as long.

All further developments will be carried out by CLICC, and I imagine that they will contact families from all three schools in due course.

Best wishes for the future

Kind regards

Elaine Allan

Childcare Development Officer
Aberlour Children’s Services
& Training & Assessment Centre (CSTAC)
Early Years Service Centre
Silverburn Lodge
Claymore Drive
Bridge of Don
Aberdeen AB23 8GD

Hopefully we’ll have a fully functioning out-of-school care system set up soon in Bucksburn/Newhills.

SPTC - Backchat 105

Published
by
Billy
on October 1, 2008
in Helpful Publications and SPTC
. 0 Comments

I’m in receipt of the latest Backchat, the Scottish Parent Teacher Council publication/newsletter. Please follow the link below to read it.

Parent Forum Event

Published
by
Billy
on September 8, 2008
in Parental Involvement
. 0 Comments

Please come along to the parent forum events today in the school. Run by Jean Henretty of the community learning team they should be informative, informal and fun.

Today from 2pm-3pm and again this evening from 7pm-8pm.

Jean and her team can help make parenting kids through school a more enjoyable task so this should be a worthwhile event.

Register!

Published
by
Billy
on September 3, 2008
in Site News
. 2 Comments

When you register on here you will be given the “member” user group, but if you are a parent or on the parent council let me know and I can update you to “Parent” or “Parent Council” each allowed to post your own posts!

Don’t forget either that we have the Parent Forum page for other discussions!

Amalgamation

Published
by
Billy
on September 3, 2008
in Bucksburn Primary School and Parental Involvement
. 8 Comments

Well done Stoneywood school on achieving their goal of status-quo. Now Bucksburn and Newhills…

“We propose to go to consultation on a new school for Bucksburn and Newhills, a suggestion that has fairly widespread support within the local community. Neither of these two schools are fit for purpose and a new school will complement the new Bucksburn Academy giving the area two new schools fit for the 21st century.”

The words of Councillor Kirsty West.

Is this true?