Agenda Newton Central School Board of Trustees
Tuesday 21 April 2020
Apologies:
Attendance: Hannah, Tipene, Riki, Kiri, Vasiti, Becky, Kim, Christine, Geoff, Julia (joined 20:00)
Led by:
Discussion:
Action:
Timatanga:
Karakia:
1. Administration
N/A
Chairs
2. Strategic Decisions
2.1(a) Key is to know how many
MOTIONS APPROVED:
students wil be coming in to
2.1 Decisions required re-opening of
school. Parental circumstances
2.1 (a) That the principal
Newton Central School:
Elected members shouldn’t change week-to-week
wil require parents to
a) To ensure NCS staff are able to
so we should find out who should inform the school by noon
implement safe practices at
be coming for the full two week
on Friday of this week of
school, the Principal seeks the
period. MoE has made it clear
their intention to attend
Board’s support to clarity from
that Boards have lost authority to school at Alert Level 3.
parents as to their intentions of
deem school closed due to
bringing their children to school.
pandemic measures. Message to 2.2 (b) That the Board
Parents wil need to inform the
the community shouldn’t contain supports the
school by 12pm on the Thursday
value statements. Currently there implementation of a BYOD
preceding the week they intend to
is no guidance from MoE or MoH policy for Level 3 Alert.
have their child in attendance.
regarding health screening for
b) With no devices currently in
staff/students before entering the 2.2 (c) That the Principal
circulation at school, the Principal
school either at the re-opeining or wil re-assign Before and
seeks the Board’s support for the
at the start of each day. Could
Afterschool care staff to
option of students bringing their
consider asking each child each
perform the required
own devices to school for their
day “have you had a fever.
increased cleaning and
own personal use.
Temperature? Have you had a
supervision regimes.
c) The Principal seeks the Board’s
cough? Have you had a sore
approves of the principal’s
throat?”
recommendation to re-assign
Before and Afterschool care staff
BYOD approach wil need to be
to increase cleaning and
fol owed as devices have al been
supervision regimes
distributed to the community for
home-based online learning.
2.2 Formation of a property committee
Children wil not be required to
bring devices and staff wil work
2.3 Consideration of advancing the
to address any possible inequities
vision work by Andrew Melville
for those who can/can’t bring
devices. Policy to only be in place
for the during Level 3 Alert – to be
reviewed when we move to Level
2 and beyond.
Principal wil send out guidelines
to whānau as to how school wil
be run at the time of sending out
survey.
BASC staff happy to be employed
as cleaning staff.
3. Monitoring
MOTIONS APPROVED:
N/A
4. Strategic Discussions
4.1 As above – see section 2.
MOTIONS APPROVED:
4.1 Coronavirus plan, policy, and
4.2 Andrew has provided quote of
required actions
$750 to get the vision statement 4.2 That Andrew Melvil e
finished.
be engaged on the basis of
4.2 Vision statement progress
BOT members
his quote to finish his work
4.3 Hui was had in March with Te on the vision statement for
4.3 Constitution and special character
Whao. Proposal suggested to start the school.
with the explanation as to what
4.4 Property and Growth
the difference is between Te
Whao and the Tangata Tiriti
4.3. That Christine Herzog,
groups so that people can
Tamati Patuwai and one
understand which group they
other person are delegated
wish to join and why: once this
to draft the pathways for
has been defined then this can be representation of co-
used to infer everything going
governance for
forward.
consideration.
4.4 Discussion as per Principal’s
hat a property committee
report for this emergency hui.
be convened consisting of
Geoff, Kiri, Ross, Riki and a
parent from the community
with the appropriate
experience.
5. Correspondence (listed below
MOTIONS APPROVED:
Minutes)
6. Te Whao matters
MOTIONS APPROVED:
6.1 Te Whao Urutaki delegates to
See discussion set out at 4.3
consider recommendation to
above.
delegate Christine Hertzog, Tamati
Patuwai and (one other) to draft an
initial constitution to present to Te
Whao Urutaki members for
feedback, consultation and
eventual y approval
7. Agenda Items for Next Meeting
N/A
Whakamutunga:
Note 1: Correspondence is listed on the back of the agenda
Note 2: List of current delegations attached to agenda
Inward Correspondence:
Outward Correspondence:
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School, dated 21st April 2020
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STATUS OF ACTION ON DECISIONS
hui
action
who
RAG status
18/8/16
complete Declaration of Interests and Trustee all
superceded
gaps
15/12/16
advise accountant about approval of attributing Ira/Riki
next financial year
earmarked fundraising to the year in which wil
be used
18/5/17
review bil board rental situation
Riki
on-going
18/8/17
convene appraisal sub-committee
Laurayne
reported at last
hui (Nov 2018)
16/11/17
ensure review of curricula is included in Board Riki
include with policy
annual plan
review
16/11/17
review
values
(to
underpin
policy all
Working Group
redevelopment, etc)
14/12/17
clarification on ‘trading income’ in budget
Riki
in progress
15/05/2018 EXIT interviews to be conducted
Riki
On-going
and Laurayne
, 19/06/2018 Address matters in the Management Letter
Riki
On-going
19/06/2018 Riki to invite Māori medium staff to Riki
deferred to 2019
a BoT meeting this year to discuss pedagogical
and curriculum plans in the new space.
7/08/2018 lengths of terms for co-opted trustees (produce Christine/Kikee in progress
a SS for all members)
7/08/2018 complete Curriculum policy review in 2019
policy team
in progress
11/09/2018 arrange parent survey re online achievement Laurayne,
in progress
reporting Link to questions
Hannah, Kim,
11/09/2018 identify policy needs for OSCAR registration
Riki & CH
in progress
22/10/2019 H&S working party to create a rainbow policy Becky, Kiri, Becky
