Society
Tamariki Society
Tamariki School's Proprietor is known as 'The Society', and has a responsibility to maintain and preserve the Special Character. It also owns the buildings and is responsible for capital maintenance and development of the school property.
Teachers Manual
Pointers of Good Teaching Practice Teaching at Tamariki School is very demanding and testing, and very rewarding and satisfying. Teachers need to…
Assessment and Evaluation
The Special character philosophy impacts on the ways in which assessment and evauation is practised at Tamariki School. It happens on a…
Info for teachers and student teachers, specialty teachers (and any interested parents)
Tamariki School is different from the typical New Zealand school. Due to this, the demands and skills required by the staff are…
Parent Handbook
WELCOME TO TAMARIKI SCHOOL We are different in many ways from other schools and we hope this booklet will help you to…
Visitors
For visitors,prospective parents, and people who come into our school to teach eg bike safety, art, music etc Please note that we…
Community school camp – start of year camp
Tamariki School has several different kinds of school camps: Community-building camp: The purpose of this camp is to build our community. This…
School Board - The Governors
The Board is a Crown entity and is responsible for the governance of the school. The role of a board member, is to ensure that Tamariki is run in the best interests of the students and the community. The Board acts to set policy guidelines and goals for the Principal and Staff and monitors progress and compliance. The government pays our teacher’s salaries directly to them and provides the Board with an operation grant and a minimal level of maintenance funding. The donations paid by school families and collected by the Society, are passed onto the Board to help fund the Special Character of the school e.g. to employ staff to ensure that we have a high adult-to-child ratio and can provide adequate supervision throughout the school, given the range of activities that can be going on at any one time.
The Board normally has seven members:
- Three Parent Representatives, elected by the parents every three years.
- Two Proprietor’s Appointees, appointed by the Tamariki Society.
- One Staff Rep is selected by the staff every three years.
- The Principal is an ex officio member.
- The minutes secretary also attends but is not a member of the Board.
You are welcome at all Board meetings, however only board members have speaking rights by default.
- Reports
Care Days for Our School
Usually once a term we have a care day for school. This is where we give back to our school and we give the school buldings and grounds some much needed Tender Loving Care. These events also give us an opportunity to build our school comminity and make comnnections with other parents (some life long friendship have been formed while weeding or painting etc.)
As everyone knows, our Care Days help us to keep our fees down. Your help is extremely important and is valued.
Regards,
Blake