| Purpose & Aims To facilitate and encourage the
participation by parents in the life of the school.
To safeguard the rights and the legitimate aspirations and interests
of parents and students.
To foster and promote an awareness and knowledge of education
and of other issues, related to students among the parents.
To organise the collective support of the parents for the activities
of the school and to support and provide assistance to the staff
of the school.
To promote the development of the school as a focus of educational,
social and cultural activity within the community.
Membership of the Association
Membership of the Association
shall consist of Ordinary and Honorary members. Each parent shall, so long as
he or she remains a parent with a child in second level education,
be entitled to Ordinary membership of the Association.
Honorary membership may be conferred by resolution at any General
Meeting. It shall terminate at the next Bi-annual General Meeting,
but may then be renewed.
A Bi-annual General Meeting shall be held every second year. The affairs of the Association
shall be administered by an Executive Committee drawn from the
members of the Association. The Committee meets every six
weeks. Two members of the Association
are elected as Parents's Nominees to the School Board of Management
every 3 years.
The committee is involved in
working with the school on various issues. These include:
Communications
Finance / Transport
Debs
PACCS
Parent Support
Study Skills
Social
Talks for Parents
Uniform
Policies
The Parents' Association are involved at local, regional and national
level.
As part of the HSL programme within the school parents are involved
in Craft classes and are at the moment in the process of knitting chicks which we hope to sell in aid of the Hospice in the run up to Easter. These classes are held in the parents room in the school and if you are interested please contact Carmel McCormack at the school.
Many parents are involved with
the various extra cirrucular activities in the school. The local committee are involved
in working with the community and the school on joint local projects. Westmeath Post Primary Education
Forum (PPEF) had their first meeting in Moate Community School.
The meeting was chaired by deputy principal Tom Lowry. Tommy Walshe
from the parents association was elected as PRO.
We have parents on regional committees
as well as the national executive of PACCS. This year one of our
parents is president of PACCS (Tommy Walshe). We also have a parent rep on ACCS (Association of Community and Comprehensive Schools), Liz Palfreyman.
We have a parent who is a director
of the National Parents Council post primary (NPCpp) . |
