Board of Trustees October 2019 meeting summary

Kia ora koutou

The Board of Trustees meets once a month to discuss how our kura is performing and what our goals and priorities are. 

The Board has five parent representatives, our Principal Dave Lamont, and Deputy Principal, Gillian McPeake who is the staff representative. 

In our October meeting we focused on staffing and finance issues. We spent time talking about the impact of the smaller number of Year 6 students in 2020 compared to the current Year 6 group. We have nearly 60 Year 6 pupils this year and this will roughly half in 2020. However, our overall number of pupils across the kura look like they will be fairly similar next year compared with this year. 

The reduction in Year 6 numbers in 2020 has ramifications for our budget as we receive designated funding to support the learning needs of several current Year 6 students.  We are working through a number of changes for next year’s budget as a result. 

This year’s budget included a planned deficit which cannot be repeated and we need to reduce spending in 2020. This will include some reductions in teacher aide resources and continuing efforts to carefully manage day-to-day costs. 

We also discussed Term 3 achievement data. This shows that our tamariki are making progress in their learning but that writing and maths continue to lag behind reading across the school. 

Lastly, we discussed some minor works around the school including some modifications that will be carried out over the Summer break. 

Please contact any Board member if you have any questions. 

Ngā mihi nui 

Craig Press, Chair