Comissions
MEMBERS OF THE PARENTS' ASSOCIATION
- President
Jordi Soler - Vice-president
Yasmina Alonso - Treasurer
Francesc Vaqué - Secretary
Arantxa Pérez - Board Members
Lluís Cases, Iván García, Marc Muntañá, Helena Spongenberg, Marta Gento, Albert Trias de Bes, Lourdes Roura and Patricia Anguera
The Parents´ Association (PA) promotes family-school lead activities through work commissions whose tasks vary depending on the interests and concerns of the families themselves.
If you are interested in any of these topics and want to participate in a committee, please write an email to secretaria@afa.betania-patmos.org.
The commissions this school year are:
INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATION COMMISSION
Its objective is to ensure an adequate and fluid relationship between the families (through the PA) and the different school strata– the Management, the Board of Trustees or the School Council, among others. Its main functions are, together with the Management, to monitor those issues that concern the PA periodically; represent families before the Foundation's Board of Trustees; manage the communication channels of the PA; organise the Assembly; promote the Open Classroom colloquiums; participate in the school magazine Parlem-ne and boost the figure of the class representative.
Current members: Jordi Soler, Marc Muntañá, Helena Spongenberg, Iván García, Lourdes Roura, Francesc Vaqué and Patricia Anguera
SOCIAL AWARENESS COMMITTEE
It comprises a broad spectrum of topics that aim to promote social awareness among all members of our community. Thus, through reflection forums, different initiatives or dynamics to exchange opinions, it seeks to promote sustainability in different areas of school life (recycling of books and clothes, mobility, ecological awareness...). It also organizes and promotes the solidarity campaigns that are carried out at our school throughout the school Year.
Current members: Marc Muntañá, Helena Spongenberg, Lourdes Roura, Arantxa Pérez, Marta Gento and Patricia Anguera
EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE
It promotes and coordinates the participation of school families in the organisation of the events and celebrations that take place in our school. Among others, the Spring Festival is a special event in which multiple recreational, sports and solidarity activities are organised in the school premises.
It is the most important social event of the PA and, therefore, we always appreciate your collaboration. Let us remember that without everyone's kind collaboration, it would not be possible to celebrate this day.
Current members: Yasmina Alonso, Marta Gento and Helena Spongenberg
FOOD AND HEALTHY LIFE COMMISSION
This commission pursues a dual objective. In the first place, it tends to the concerns of our families regarding the school meals by mediating with the school, the students and the families. Secondly, it promotes a healthy lifestyle in the educational community through reflections and other related topics, such as the importance of sleeping well or maintaining a healthy diet outside of school, how to avoid a sedentary lifestyle in children, mental health in the different school stages, etc.
Current members: Marta Gento, Iván García, Lourdes Roura, Francesc Vaqué and Patricia Anguera
DIGITAL WORLD COMMISSION
In response to the growing concern regarding the use of new technologies at increasingly younger ages, the objective of this commission is to facilitate the debate and reflection about this topic and to support families and students during the different school stages in their relationship with technology. This commission works to debate the different concerns associated with the use of technology and tries to generate a compendium of good practices promoted both by professionals in the field and by the practical experience of families themselves.
Current members: Iván García, Jordi Soler, Marc Muntañá, Francesc Vaqué and Marta Gento
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE
Faced with a present that is already global and a future that will be even more so, the AFA (Parents´ Association) wants to promote activities that bring our students closer to other cultures, other languages and other views of the world. By the same token, we want to integrate the growing number of foreign families into our school life and city. For all these reasons, this committee will work to organize talks, outings or activities that promote this global dimension, which is so important in today's society, and strengthen the ties among the diversity of families that make up our school community.