Meeting June 20 2011

Sevilla, June 20, 2011. 

Gathered in the school hall of St.George 's School of Seville, Seville Road direction Huelva s / n, 41800 Sanlucar la Mayor, a total of 25, parents of college students above (No Teacher was there to represent the school) , at 19.30 the first constituent assembly of the Association of parents and teachers of students (the PTA) at St George's, RICHARD FORD-School of Seville was enacted/ First, to present the initiative were Carmen Varea, and Enrique Bocardo Crespo, a father of two students from year 4 and year 2, and Carmen Varea Rodriguez, mother of a pupil in year 4. Thus continued a brief insight of the philosophy and the aim pursued by PTA, which is none other than to collaborated with the school with the difficult task of educating our children with the common goal of achieving a highest quality education, and serve also as a vehicle for communication and interaction between parents and the management team and the school teacher for the resolution, all within an atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation, reading the problems that arise. It was shown to those gathered that the ultimate purpose of the meeting is the constitution of the executive committee and delegations deemed necessary, in addition to the approval of the statutes whose draft was sent to all parents dated June 15, 2011. Once that was done, to gather all the necessary documentation required by the Ministry of Interior and Justice to submit as soon as possible and finally the PTA will be constituted and recognized officially. Following the agenda of the letter convening the meeting, issued to parents dated June 15, 2011, the second item of the day, maked the following suggestions: 1. Lucia Sell intends to appoint a parent representative for each class and / or level, as a system of organization and communication between parents and the PTA. The proposal was accepted unanimously. It remains to see how to implement it, it will be early next year. 2. Carmen Varea proposes the implementation of a quota that would be of little amount (eg € 15 per family per year) and completely voluntary on the part of parents. In principle it is an issue to discuss and specify in the next meeting, since it is not a priority. 3. Because some parents want to help but do not have much availability for work or other reasons, the emphasis is on non-mandatory hold a managerial or Investigation Board as necessary to work with the PTA. Everyone can do so as you know or can. The PTA is open to any kind collaboration of all parents and teachers. We then passed to the fourth item on the agenda: Discussion and approval of the Statutes of the Association. Unanimously approved the draft statutes that were sent to all parents. A change is made as to the Investigation Board Issues called the British curriculum, which becomes: Issues related to the British and Spanish curriculum. Finally, the third point on the agenda and last topic discussed in the meeting: Presentation and vote on nominations to the executive committee and delegations,
noting that there has been only one candidate for each of the executive committee made, so which has not been necessary to make a vote among candidates for the same. Thus, the executive committee and delegations are composed as follows: President: Enrique Crespo Bocardo Secretary: Varea Carmen Rodriguez Deputy Secretary: Maria Angeles Lechon Roque Treasurer: Marian Martin Gonzalez Delegations: • Issues related to British and Spanish curriculum: Lucia Sell Trujillo • Infrastructure and equipment: Margarita Sanchez Iglesias • Event: Susana Voigt Lumbreras • Training for parents: Alicia Martínez Cascales • Extracurricular activities: Pascual Monica Canyon • Information and proposals: Purification Valverde Carranza • Library: David Caro de la Cruz The introduction to each of these charges is made on an entirely voluntary, without any coercion or pressure from any of the attendees, and noted that all have been accepted with the consent of all present at the meeting. The executive committee and delegation for the first meeting in the first week of September, were now in place thus committing the secretariat to keep in touch and report promptly all the progress achieved over time in terms of procedures with the Ministry of Interior and Justice. No more issues to discuss, the meeting ended at 21 hours.