How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

1. How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS? The main way that the Parent Forum supports Dunbar PS is by parents and grandparents helping in the school so that pupils can get to do lots of activities, that without these extra adults, simply couldn’t happen. One of the important ways that the Parent Council helps the school is by fundraising and donating funds to the school to buy equipment that otherwise could not be purchased. In the last school year (2012-2013), the Parent Council raised over £9,600 for our school & £8,260 in 2011-2012.

2. Dunbar Primary School is one of the largest primary schools in the UK, with over 1,025 pupils and 50 volunteer parents acting as Class Representatives for the 38 classes on the Parent Council. We aim to have 2 Reps for every class so with 76 Rep places, we’re proud to have achieved 66% uptake. • The Co-Chairs coordinate the varied activities of nine Parent Council Sub-Groups. • Fundraising & Social Events Group • School Grounds • Healthy Living: • Keeping Parents Informed • Delivering the Curriculum • Literacy • Science, Maths, Technology & ICT • Visual & Performing Arts • Nursery

3. Sub Group 1: Fundraising & Events

6. Major items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012 2 x Visualisers@ £180.61 = £361.22 How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS? Major items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012 2 x Activote @ £409 = £818

7. Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012 833 Ice Creams for Jubilee picnic, June 2012 How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

8. Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012 September 2012: Playground equipment £200 How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS? Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012 National Trust School Membership £80

9. Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012 June 2012: Contributions towards gifts for retiring Teachers How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

10. Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012 June 2012: Contribution to Group Call costs £500 How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

11. Water bottles for all P1s: £140 How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

12. Sub Group 2: School Grounds • “Stop, Drop & Hop” campaign • Furniture & equipment e.g. new Trim Trail for the John Muir Campus • Lunchtime Gardening Club • Access issues

13. STOP at the school gate HOP off bike, scooter or ripstik DROP them neatly at the stands

14. Sub Group 3: Healthy Living • Walking, scootering & cycling to school • Bikeability • Traffic safety on school routes: “Twenty’s Plenty” • Healthy Snack Trolley • Bug Busting weekends (no more nits!) • 2012-13: DPS branded sports kit

15. Show your support – join the event “Dunbar’s Bug Busting Weekend” on Facebook and spread the word!

16. Sub Group 4: Keeping Parents Informed (Communications) • PC Communication Questionnaire • Pupil post, email, Group Call text messages, posters • Coffee mornings • Parent to Parent Guides x 10 versions: 2 year olds via Health Visitors, 2x Nursery & P1-7

17. Sub Group 5: Delivering the Curriculum An exciting new Numeracy Initiative is being developed – “Together we count” with the other Dunbar Cluster PSs

18. Sub Group 6: Literacy(Reading & Writing) • Readathon • Library Volunteers • Birthday books • 2012-13: New initiative “Dunbar Reads Together”

19. Sub Group 7: Science, Maths, Technology & ICT

20. Sub Group 8: Visual & Performing Arts • ‘Little People of the World’ Olympic Arts Project

21. Artist in Residence: Ross Combe with P3, May & June 2013 • Every P3 pupil made: • Insect Hotel • Mapped Dunbar • Felt Clouds • Pocket Globe

22. Sub Group 9: Nursery