Notice is hereby given that the Annual General
Meeting of the Orana P&F was held on Wednesday 17th March 2004 at 7.30pm
in the Resource Centre.
All parents of children at Orana are members of the P&F and are eligible to vote at the AGM. Nomination Forms for Executive Committee members
were available in the office. Nominations were returned to the office by Tuesday 16th March.
The existing Executive Members are:
President – Vicki Martinsen
Secretary – Margaret Clark
Treasurer – David Pearce
Executive Members – Nicky Bazley-Smith & Amanda Wrigley
Teacher Representatives – Olga Blasch & Ursula Hatton.
All current Executive Members have indicated they are willing to continue
and are very keen to have other members join them. Please seriously consider
helping the P&F in their vitally important support role to the school and
the community by nominating for the Executive and attending the AGM.
Vicki Martinsen
President
"... we must be glad that we can
come together in the spirit of wanting to bring about a better future for
humanity by working together with those who are trying to raise and educate the
generations to come in the sense of real knowledge and of love for the human
being."
"In the Waldorf School" by
Rudolf Steiner, p76
The Orana P&F is a separate entity from the School Association
with its own constitution. It exists to support the teachers' work through
fundraising, social and community building activities. A representative of
the College attends P&F meetings to report on the College and Core Group
meetings, and vice versa. The President of the P&F represents this
group at Council (see below for more information).
Parents are automatically members of the P&F, and can become members of
the Canberra Rudolf Steiner School Association (CRSS) by completing a nomination
form; teachers are members of both associations. Both groups encompass all of us
and provide a tangible body for parents of the Orana school community. Everyone
is welcome to attend the AGMs.
Orana School's organisational structure
The school is a not-for-profit association, incorporated in the ACT. Staff
and parents who fill in a free membership form (available at the office) are
voting members of the association, management of which is provided by two main
committees. These are the College of
Teachers, responsible for educational direction, and the School
Council, who provide management support to the College of Teachers.
The School Council is made up of
both staff and parents, with the majority being parents. The Council meets about
once a month during term time, and deals with a wide range of matters covering
finance, property, development, human resource management and community
building. Some of these activities have School Council subcommittees dealing
with them.
The Parents and Friends Association (P&F)
is a separate body to the above, but works closely with the College of Teachers
and School Council to support "fund raising and fun raising" to
support the Orana community. By convention, the P&F president has a seat at
the School Council. Parents with a strong interest in Orana are most welcome to
attend Council meetings as observers, or nominate for Council or its
subcommittees, which include Finance (including Buildings), Bioscape,
Governance, Community Hours and Sustainability.
The relationship between the P&F and other school bodies is
illustrated by this diagram.
The P&Fs constitution currently says that the objective of the
P&F is to promote and support the establishment and maintenance of the Orana
School by:
- Actively pursuing fund-raising activities to provide for equipment,
maintenance, and services beyond the means of funds otherwise available to
the school;
- Co-ordinating and initiating the volunteer efforts of parents and
friends in the physical improvement and maintenance of school
buildings;
- Initiating and co-ordinating social events to foster a spirit of
community within the school;
- Identify and undertake activities aimed at improving the image of
the school within the wider community;
- Endeavour to increase awareness and understanding of Rudolf
Steiner's philosophies among parents and friends of the wider community; and
- Identifying and initiating any other such activities as are deemed
to meet the objective of the Association.
Suggestion box
A P&F suggestion box is located in the Front Office - all comments
and suggestions will be gratefully received.
The Class Coordinator supports the class
teacher's work, providing essential communications link between parents and
teacher and assisting in the smooth running of Orana School's social and
fund-raising activities. Class Coordinators are an important link in the
school communication network so it is not only essential that each class have
one, but also that they carry out their responsibilities.
Click here for
detailed information about Class
Coordinators
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