Parent Partnership

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Parent Forum and Council 

Here at Forres Academy there is an active and growing Parent Partnership and we would ask you to support your child and his/her school by becoming involved. 

All Parent Partnership meetings take place in Forres Academy and usually start at 6.00pm. 

The Chair of the Parent Council is Mr Tim Spencer and he can be contacted at admin.forresacad@moray-edunet.gov.uk. 

What is the Parent Forum? 

The membership of a Parent Partnership is made up of parents who have a child at an education authority school. Parents are automatically members of the Parent Forum for their school. One of the ways parents in the Parent Forum will be able to express their views will be through the Parent Council. As a member of the Parent Forum, each parent can expect to: 

• Receive information about the school and its activities 

• Hear more about what partnership with parents means in their school 

• Be invited to be involved in ways and times that suit them 

• Participate in deciding how the parent representative body, the Parent Council, is organised and how it operates 

• Identify issues they want the Parent Council to work on with the school 

• Be asked their opinion by the Parent Council on issues relating to the school and the education it provides 

• Work in partnership with staff 

• Enjoy taking part in the life of the school in whatever way they can. 

What is the Parent Council? 

The Parent Council is a group of parents selected by members of the Parent Forum to represent all the parents of children at a school. Parent Councils are very flexible groups and the Parent Forum can decide on the type of group it wants to represent their views. Parents might decide they want a representative from each year group in the school. They might want to include pupils, other teachers at the school or parents from a feeder primary or secondary school. This flexibility allows parents to choose a Parent Council which reflects their school and will encourage parents to get involved. At Forres Academy, the Parent Council is known as the Parent Partnership. 

The type of things a Parent Council could get involved in include: 

• Supporting the work of the school 

• Gathering and representing parents’ views to the Head Teacher, Education Authority and Education Scotland 

• Promoting contact between the school, parents, pupils, providers of nursery education and the local community 

• Fundraising 

• Organising events 

• Being involved in the appointment of senior staff.