Community Association
Our Community Association is a partnership between parents, carers and staff to support the whole school community and bring people together.
The Associations at Kelvinbridge, Milngavie and Newland encourage open communication within the school community, arrange social events and raise funds for The Academy and other charities.
The Glasgow Academy Community Association (Kelvinbridge) is always delighted to hear from parents and carers who would like to help us run events or be committee members or office holders. We encourage everyone to get involved.
Session 2023/24 Meeting Dates
- Monday 9 October 2023 – in person/hybrid: 6pm | Rector’s Study
- Monday 20 November 2023 – in person/hybrid: 6pm | Rector’s Study
- Thursday 25 January 2024 – 7.30pm | Online
- Monday 18 March 2024 – in person/hybrid: 6pm | Rector’s Study
- Thursday 2 May 2024 – in person/hybrid: 6pm | Rector’s Study
- Thursday 13 June 2024 AGM – in person: 6pm | Watson Auditorium
The Glasgow Academy Milngavie is a small school but Community Association events are always well attended by parents, pupils, grandparents, friends of the school and members of the local community. Money is raised both to enhance the extra-curricular activities and for charity.
In the past few years the Community Association has purchased staging, Flip cameras, gardening equipment and benches for the playground area. The committee also raises funds for our school charities.
Our school makes good use of Community Association members’ expertise to take forward initiatives. We have Community Association parent representatives with backgrounds in marketing, sales, finance, media and technology.
Members of the Community Association run the school’s Healthy Tuck Shop and are always around the school to help with catering and organising events.
The Glasgow Academy Milngavie Community Association runs a subscription system where parents pay a small amount on a yearly basis. This money is used to buy the pupils presents at Christmas time and to provide refreshments for seasonal children’s parties, for example.
Each year group has a Community Association representative who will introduce themselves to new parents and support the families with information about our school and the community.
The Glasgow Academy Newlands has a very active and supportive Community Association, which meets two or three times each term. Their first event in the school calendar year is usually a barbecue to welcome new parents and encourage their involvement in the various activities they put on.
The Halloween party is primarily for the children, but in recent years has seen adults wearing costumes and entering in to the fun of the evening.
Towards the end of the first term the Community Association not only organises a Christmas Fair, but also provides gifts for the children as well as a special visitor for their Christmas parties. Towards the end of the middle term a ‘Spring Fling’ is arranged for the children with fun and entertainment laid on. The Spring Fair is also a popular event and, like the Christmas Fair raises funds for the school. There is also a Community Association link on the Easy Fundraising website that allows the school to benefit from parents’ on-line purchases.
Over the course of the past few years the Community Association has bought a new Wendy House for the playground, 6 iPads for the school, a bread maker, construction frame, puddle suits and numerous other items of play equipment for the Nursery/Kindergarten. The Community Association treats the whole school to a trip to the Pantomime each December, as well as funding a special ‘storyteller’ to visit the children on World Book Day. In conjunction with the school, the Community Association organises for personalised gifts for Mothering Sunday, enabling the children to produce a special memento of their time in the school.