Parent Council
Het Palet is an active school where, in addition to regular lessons, the children are offered a large number of extra activities.
Objective of the Parent Committee (PC)
The Parent Committee:
- Initiates and organizes events for students and parents
- Supports the school with various activities (purchases and possible organization)
- Finances various activities, projects, and the Palet Day annually. The school needs parental help to make these extra activities possible for the children. For each activity, this help is organized through the class parents and usually involves supervising a group of children during an activity. In addition, the parent council provides extra support for the teachers in organizing the activities.
The parent council meets 5 times a year. In these meetings, we evaluate previous activities and distribute the various activities among the members of the parent council. This is to make membership of the parent council possible alongside having a job and family life: everyone can choose a task that fits their working life!
We are always looking for active parents who want to contribute ideas and help organize activities for the children. If you are interested in becoming a member of the parent council, please contact one of its members!
Finances
To achieve the parent council’s objective, an annual contribution is requested from parents. This contribution is requested by letter at the beginning of the school year. The contribution is set at € 60,- per child per year. The finances of the parent council are completely separate from the school. The budget is prepared in consultation with the school and approved by the Participation Council.
Annual recurring activities and resources financed by the parent council are:
- Sports Day: rental of the gym, ice cream for the children
- Sinterklaas: necessities for activities on Piet’s morning such as baking pepernoten and necessities for shoe setting
- Christmas: Christmas trees, Christmas decorations, classroom decor, i.e. table runners and napkins
- Easter: Easter branches and Easter eggs
- School trip
- Children’s Book Week: occasional hiring of writers to read aloud and purchase of books
- Group 8 camp: partly paid from parent contribution and partly from camp contribution
- Group 8 musical
- Final party: rental of picnic benches, rental of workshop for the children, ice cream for the children
- Hall decoration for themes
- National School Breakfast
- Indoor soccer
Workshops such as a circus day or a dance day.
The parent council consists of:
- Gerco Langelaan (teacher)
- Karin van Balken (teacher)
And the parents:
- Hans Klaasse Bos (treasurer)
- Katoesja Bruinendaal
- Mariska Sardjoe
- Froukje Hoekemeijer
- Lesley Williams
You can email the parent council: or.hetpalet@ogamstelland.nl
