Strathfieldsaye PS School Council
August Council Meeting
Meeting Date: November 26 2015
Time: 7:00-9:00
1. / Welcome / Present:Ben Johnstone-McCloud, Nicole Stephens, Jennifer Hurrell, Jess Edgar, Jen Rogers, Ivan Crisp, David Joss, Tanya Smith
Apologies:Helen Rodda, Pam Keily, Julie Brady, Peter Lodewijks, Ed Castle, Jamie Eckett. / Actions / motions
2. / Minutes from previous meeting 20th October / Minutes accepted
3. / Correspondence
a) Incoming
b) Outgoing / a)Response from the Security Company was that the report of people in the school was from Footscray nth not Strathfieldsaye PS
b)Thank you letter to the parents club.
4. / Subcommittee reports /
- Executive -reviewed policies to be tabled tonight.
- Community Liaison –
Discussed the fact that we need to fundraise $30 000 pa to meet the cost of running our school. This message needs to be communicated to parents / school community. The annual report will provide a vehicle to show the change in government support and the needs of our school.
Enterprise grant - we will proceed with an application, need to get the timing right.
School Fair 2016 - Ray White sponsor / Yarrawonga resort prize for raffle. Not using the amusement rides. Booked reptiles and an animal farm, jets gymnastic, kids activities at Ray White stall.
Class placements – have been done 2016. Teachers put a lot of time and energy into this.
Money grows on trees. Marketplace
Prep Transition
- Finance and Management
Mandurang sth – spending funds. Camping is getting a lot of interest from other schools.
Uniforms - holding about $25 000 worth of stock.
Staffing - 3 new grads inc Jess Edgar, 2 ongoing staff Ryan Edwards, PE & 5-6, Alice Adams 0.6 music.
State school relief - Camps sports and excursion funds $125 per student. Parents apply through Ben.
Back to school vouchers available through community foundation Bendigo & central Victoria.
President – change over after 9 years, expressions of interests and chance for discussions with potential new presidents. Current councillors up for re-election need to say if they don’t wish to run for another term so we can seek out nominees.
- Principal’s Report–
EBT – great experience for all the kids involved on lots of levels.
P- 2 Sports day very successful especially with big kids helping out.
DET rolling out resources and policies around school improvement, using our school to assist with some things.
- Junior School Council –
Newsletter items with options for financial assistance including payment plans.
Finance
Move payments for cheque number 9901 -9905 and direct payments for $ of $90,052.18 for the month of October
Moved: Jennifer Hurrell
Seconded: David Joss
School council want to pass on their appreciation for all the work staff have been doing.
5. / Business Arising
6. / General Business / Jess Edgar’s role on council for the remainder of the council year to be transferred to a department of education position.
School Policies Review
Working with children – minor changes
Staff Register Policy
Curriculum Framework Policy
Uniform letter – David will respondwith a succinct letter. There is no concern that we have not complied with department requirements.
Facebook pageoriginated from Kylie Morrison. Most schools stay away from Facebook because you can’t control it. Discussion about how Facebook could help drive traffic back to our website. Our office doesn’t at this time have the personal to run this option.
General discussion about improving communication via the website, pdf newsletter. / Policies ratified with minor changes
David - to respond to uniform letter and the facebook proposal
Ben to fix newsletter issues.
Closure meeting
9:30 pm / AGM for 2016 will be 22nd March last week term 1. / Final meeting for this year 8th DecemberMandurang Valley Winery
Councillors at 6.00pm for ‘in-camera’ meeting.
Staff at 7.00pm