Parents to meet with school's senior leadership team this week
The senior leadership team of Lochgilphead High School is to meet with parents this week in a bid to address a number of serious concerns.
The event comes on the back of a highly critical report published in June this year after an inspection by Education Scotland.
Parents met in September to air their worries about the report and now a meeting has been convened to allow the school staff to respond.
On Thursday November 7 the senior leadership and the parent council will jointly host the meeting in Lochgilphead Joint Campus at 7pm.
“The primary focus of next week’s meeting is for the school to explain what they are doing to address the five key concerns that have been raised by parents,” the parent council chair Tony Bennett told the Advertiser.
“Hopefully the discussions will also answer other questions that parents may have about the school and, in particular, what is being done in response to the inspection findings.”
The parent forum, which is open to all parents and carers of pupils at the high school, has identified five key priority areas that they want to see addressed.
Mr Bennett outlined these as:
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Improvements to the pupil performance tracking system, and the reporting of this to parents (previously there was no system in place to see how a pupil progresses from year to year, or to enable comparison between different subjects that a child was studying in a given year).
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Improvements in communication, transparency and openness from the school.
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Review of options structure from year to year in senior phase to permit greater continuity so, for example, S6 students are more likely to study subjects which they have previously studied to a Higher level.
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Provision of a study space specifically for senior students.
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Greater respect for the senior pupils and for them to have greater involvement in some aspects of the school management etc.
Mr Bennett added that he is feeling positive about the meeting, and the school’s future, more generally.
He said: “I must say that in the past month we have seen some improvements, and there are signs of others to come.”
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