Monday the 14th June our Family and Friends fundraising group are having a meeting at 2:30 pm in the staff room. This is to look at fundraising for the remainder of the year.

Do you have a bit of spare time?

Help is always welcome so come along on the 14th and meet the team.

New Board in action

We held our first board meeting with the newly elected board of trustees on Monday evening. Here’s a summary of our meeting.

Board chair Rev Graeme Pilgrim,
Deputy Chair Wendy Nicoll

Currently the board is made up of

5 parent trustees : Wendy Nicoll, Dean Jamieson, Keren Ross, Bryan Greig,

Allan McMinn-Collard.

3 Proprietor Trustees Rev Graeme Pilgrim plus two more still to be confirmed

Staff Trustee – Min Watson

Principal – Tim Anderson

The trustees ‘leave their parent hat at the door’ to the meetings and become your elected reps concerned with the governance of the school.

We approved the new Charter at the meeting and this is being made ready to go to the Ministry of Education as well as out to our community. This is a very substantive revision of our charter and will take us into our future very well. The Charter review that many of you were involved with made up most of the input into the new charter.

Our new Mission Statement for the school is

The St Matthew’s School Community becomes part of the child’s life, empowering them to be all they can be.

Our Vision statement remains as the quote from Proverbs 22:6 ‘

Teach our children in the way they should go…’

Three quarters of our meeting was spent on Strategic Decisions – looking at our Charter, child achievement, our action plan – as well as managing a good walk through the school.

Just a reminder that BoT meetings are open to any member of the public – our next meeting is on Monday July 26th.