The Royal High Parent Council
Every school in Scotland, secondary and primary, should have a Parent Council. Parent Councils were established by the Scottish Government in 2007, to replace the previous School Board structure, carrying out some of the work which a School Board used to do, and other jobs too.
At the Royal High School, our Parent Council looks after both official parental liaison with the school and representing the opinions of Royal High parents to stakeholders on the local and national stage.
We aim to make sure parents have a say in the appointment of senior staff at the school, including the recent appointment of our Headteacher and several Curriculum Leaders, and we represent the views of parents to the school-on-school policy matters which affect us all. We work closely with the school’s Senior Management Team on several projects and collaborate closely with the PSA and with the Former Pupils’ Association. We’ve forged links with the other four Parent Councils in our cluster (Blackhall, Clermiston, Cramond and Davidson’s Mains) and we keep in regular contact with over a dozen of the local councillors for our catchment area and with our MPs and MSPs.
