Welcome to the first newsletter of 2011 and a Happy New Year to all our playgroup families and friends. I hope the next few months of the session will be slightly less stressful than the last. We have received good news from Glasgow City Council who have agreed to fund five more places. This gives a total of twenty for the session which puts us on a firmer footing for next year. We still have one or two spaces available for this year if you hear of anyone who is interested in a place for their child at playgroup. As most of you know the Care Commission report was disappointing in one or two sections although positive in many others. Most of the points raised have been addressed and changes put in place where necessary. It is our intention to ask for a further re-grading as soon as the rest of the Action Plan has been carried out. One of the concerns raised was the involvement of parents in the planning of playgroup and in sourcing their views. After discussion at the committee meeting in November, Val Kennedy very kindly agreed to update the parents’ questionnaire, distribute it and collate the responses. I am very grateful to Val for this and would hope that each family will be able to find time to fill it in. This will give us a clearer picture of your views and thoughts on playgroup. I am pleased to say that playgroup is entering the 21st century and acquiring a website. Raymond McHugh – Pierce’s dad has very kindly offered to help us set this up over the next few weeks. Hopefully this means that most of the information for playgroup can be put on the website and everyone will be able to keep up to date with what’s going on. That’s assuming that I can cope with updating it when necessary!! We hope that the format of the newsletter will also change and become a bit more user friendly. Watch this space as they say. We have two boys with us this week who are on Work Experience from Cleveden. In the past, these young people have worked well with the children who have enjoyed having them in playgroup. Hopefully this year will be the same. Could you please remember to fill in when you are available for duty over the next three weeks. The new rota will be on the table as usual.
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