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.
Down Time
We don’t have structured lunch and interval times at Tamariki School There may be periods of time in the day where the…
The Importance of Play
Play is the fundamental work of the students at Tamariki School A Brief Review of the Literature on Play and its Role…
The Meeting System
Request System The Request and Meeting Systems go hand in hand. When a child or adult finds some behaviour annoying or against…
Special Character
Extract from the Integration Agreement 1990 Our Special Character is officially defined as… Providing an education along the lines of the principles…
Learning through play.
A Brief Review of the Literature on Play The Importance of Play Play is the fundamental work of the students at Tamariki…
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