Policy

Students achieve more when there is effective communication between the school, the home, and the community. The Board takes overall responsibility for communication with the community, but delegates the Principal to achieving this on a day to day basis.

Implementation of Policy

The Principal in carrying out this authority will:

i.      ensure each students' academic and general progress is formally reported in writing twice a year to parents/caregivers and informally at any other time at request of parent/caregiver or school ;

ii.     establish and maintain a culture of responsiveness to parent/caregiver communications based on a  expectation of a maximum of 2 working days to respond;

iii.     ensure regular communication by classroom teachers with parents/caregivers;

iv.    publish a clear, publicly accessible procedure for handling parents/caregivers concerns or complaints 

v.     regularly inform and update parents and community on school culture, relevant educational issues, procedures and the operations of the school.

The Board of Trustees will:

i.      hold regular public meetings of the Board advertised 2 weeks in advance. Note the public may be excluded for part of all of any such meeting when the Board moves “in-committee”.

ii.     make the confirmed minutes of an advertised Board meeting available on the school web site with 7 days, excluding “in-committee” minutes.

iii.    delegate authority to the Chairman to allocate time at a Board meeting to hear a parent/caregiver on a specific issue on receipt of a written request to the Chairman. If declined the Chairman must give the reason(s) for declining in writing.

iv.   ensure the Chairman  responds on behalf of the Board within 14 days on receipt of a communication to the Chairman from a parent/caregiver .

v.    report regularly to parents/caregivers on matters arising from Board activities and in person at the annual prize giving;

vi.   from time to time direct the school to canvas the opinions of parents/caregivers and potential parents on specific issues relating to curriculum or general related to the school.

Review

-      Community Survey
-      2012