Northern Metropolitan Region

Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

  

NMR EduMail 040/2009 School council training for 2009

 

Audience: Principals, Northern Metropolitan Region Schools

  

Summary

A four part training program will be conducted by the Northern Metropolitan Region for school councillors to provide information about their roles and responsibilities. The registration form included in the attachment should be returned by 23 April 2009. Principals are asked to provide information about this program to all members of the school council.

 

  

School council presidents and school councillors in the Northern Metropolitan Region are invited to attend four professional development sessions that will be held during Terms 2 and 3, 2009. The program is designed to provide school council members with information about their roles and responsibilities.

 

Each year enhancements are made to the sessions to ensure that school councillors are provided with up-to-date information about their roles, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development policy and guidelines, and school functions and processes.

 

The sessions cover the following areas:

 

Program 1:    

 ‘Understanding school council’s roles and responsibilities’

 Date: 28 April 2009

 

Program 2:     

 ‘Meeting procedures, processes and dealing with people’

Date: 19 May 2009

 

Program 3:    

‘Money matters for school council, including CASES21 Finance’

Date: 2 June 2009

 

Program 4:     

‘School improvement – the role of council’

 Date: 21 July 2009

 

School councillors may attend any or all of these sessions.

 

The venue for all sessions is the Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre, Cnr Bell Street and St Georges Road, Preston (Melway reference: Map 30 E2).

 

All sessions will be held from 6.45 pm until approximately 9.00 pm, and will include a light supper.

 

A detailed outline of the program and a registration form is included in the attachment.

 

Please return the registration form by Thursday, 23 April 2009, by post, fax, or email, to:

            Patricia Quan

Post:    Northern Metropolitan Region

Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

Locked Bag 2001

Coburg    3058

 

Fax:     9488 9400,  Email:  quan.patricia.a@edumail.vic.gov.au

  

Program 1: Understanding school council’s roles and responsibilities

 

There is an opportunity to conduct program 1 with smaller clusters or networks of schools. This would require the schools concerned to provide a venue for the event. There will be no cost for the presenter but the date and time would need to be negotiated. Contact Patricia Quan (see contact details below) for further information about this.

 

 Further information

For further information, or to discuss the possible presentation of program 1 to a school cluster, please contact Patricia Quan on telephone 9488 9408, or email: quan.patricia.a@edumail.vic.gov.au

 

Principals are asked to provide information about this training program to all members of their school council and to encourage their attendance at the various sessions.

  

Wayne Craig

Regional Director

Northern Metropolitan Region