FSSC mins 07_05_08.pdf - Fort Street High School
FSSC mins 07_05_08.pdf - Fort Street High School
FSSC mins 07_05_08.pdf - Fort Street High School
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Minutes of <strong>School</strong> Council Meeting<br />
Wednesday 7 May 2008<br />
<strong>Fort</strong>ian Room 6.00pm<br />
1. Welcome and Apologies<br />
Bruce Sutton<br />
Ros Moxham<br />
Tom Hubble<br />
Gilbert Whitton<br />
Umeya Chaudhuri<br />
Carlo Antonioli<br />
Jasper Odgers<br />
Don Newby<br />
Moya Quirk<br />
Janice Eastment<br />
Kirsten Ockendon<br />
Jules Davies<br />
Chair<br />
Principal<br />
Parent Representative<br />
Parent Representative<br />
SRC Representative<br />
SRC Representative<br />
Student Representative<br />
<strong>Fort</strong>ian Union and Foundation Representative<br />
Staff Representative<br />
Staff Representative<br />
Staff Representative<br />
Executive Officer<br />
Apologies from Laura Paton and Charlotte Taylor<br />
2. Confirmation of Previous Minutes<br />
The minutes of the 2 April 2008 meeting were accepted.<br />
3. Business Arising<br />
Business was dealt with as per the agenda.<br />
4. Correspondence<br />
Jules received more information on teacher awards that will be dealt with at the<br />
next meeting.<br />
5. Aircraft Noise Celebration Event<br />
Ros reported that the celebration assembly would be on 30 May at 10.30am. Both<br />
Anthony Albanese and Carmel Tebbutt will attend. Unfortunately the assembly<br />
clashes with the Chemistry Olympiad in Canberra but Janice will attend that event<br />
with William Jackson in Ros’s place.<br />
6. Principal’s report<br />
Ros reported that David Osland had been at the school for much of the holidays<br />
overseeing the electrical work. The electrical work has now been completed for<br />
Wilkins but not Kilgour. This was delayed due to the rain. The work was then<br />
scheduled for next week but has been delayed again due to the <strong>Fort</strong> St Festival.<br />
Consequently Kilgour has no heaters at the moment.
Next week will be the new NAPLAN literacy and numeracy tests. Information<br />
has been provided to all relevant parties. The school is using staff and HSC<br />
invigilators to invigilate these exams.<br />
<strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Street</strong> Festival takes place next Sunday 18 May.<br />
There is a teacher strike day scheduled for Thursday 22 May but this has yet to be<br />
confirmed.<br />
Red Shield Day is on 25 May and students will be collecting donations.<br />
David Osland has organized for ARES to present to the P&C regarding the new<br />
website. The P&C have suggested that perhaps the work should be done in house,<br />
but Ros is reluctant to do this as this has caused problems in the past. Instead we<br />
are looking at having an external company design the website and intranet for<br />
students and parents. Bruce also suggests looking at SAKAI.<br />
Jasper suggests looking at Blackboard, but David Osland has already ruled this<br />
out due to cost. Ros would like Jasper to speak to David Osland direct.<br />
The school has received a letter of complaint from a local resident who is being<br />
disturbed by community users at the weekends. David Osland has tried<br />
unsuccessfully to speak to the resident. The school received a second letter today<br />
and David has hand delivered a reply.<br />
A new path was installed in the holidays for students, but this was vandalized<br />
before it was even finished. Ros is concerned that some of these events are as a<br />
result of bad feeling since the school has a new fence that stops residents from<br />
accessing the oval.<br />
7. Other Reports<br />
Student Report<br />
Carlo reported the results from the survey regarding the current school website<br />
that shows that it is rarely used. The SRC has met with David Osland to combine<br />
their survey questions to make one survey.<br />
The biggest complaint was that information was out of date.<br />
Students are keen to have a secure login with many students wanting forums.<br />
Jasper added at this point that a forum would need a moderator and administrator,<br />
but would be very valuable.<br />
Ros reiterated that any assessment tasks placed on the website must be absolutely<br />
secure and available only to students and not the general public.<br />
Carlo also reported that the SRC has been busy with the <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Street</strong> Festival.<br />
P&C Report<br />
No report as no P&C rep<br />
<strong>Fort</strong>ians Union Report<br />
Don reported that the <strong>Fort</strong>ians Union had met last night but there was little to<br />
report. The numbers are very low and there was some discussion around how to<br />
increase numbers. Bruce used Sydney University as an example of how alumni<br />
are allocated an alumni email address that is kept current for them for future
eunions or communication. It was also suggested looking at a myspace page for<br />
<strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Street</strong>. Ros thinks that DET may not allow that, however there needs to be<br />
further discussion of how to engage alumni.<br />
Foundation Report<br />
No meeting.<br />
8. Other Business<br />
None<br />
9. Next Council meeting Wednesday 4 June 2008
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