Who is it?
The School Council includes the Principal and the P&C President, along with representatives from Staff, Parents and Students.
What does it do?
Your School Council works to help the school undertake projects that will have a school wide impact with one key goal in mind – improving the learning experience and environment for our students.
How does it do this?
The School Council:
- Monitors the school's strategic direction.
- Approves school plans and policies of a strategic nature, or other documents affecting strategic matters including the annual estimate of revenue and expenditure for the school.
- Monitors the implementation of the plans, policies and other documents mentioned above.
- Advises the school's Principal about strategic matters.
What can't it do?
The School Council must not:
- Interfere with the management by the Principal of the day-to-day operations of the school and its curriculum.
- Make operational decisions about the use of teaching and learning resources.
- Make decisions about individual teaching styles.
- Make decisions that are contrary to law or written polity of the Department.
What's the difference between the School Council and the P&C Association?
Some of the main differences are:
- The general role of the School Council is to guide the broad strategic direction of the school – the general role of the P&C is to promote the interests of and facilitate the development and further improvement of the school by promoting parent participation and encouraging collaboration.
- The School Council has no capacity to raise, borrow or invest money. The P&C has financial delegation to raise funds, borrow money and invest money.
- The School Council cannot operate businesses. The P&C has the capacity to operate businesses (e.g. canteen, uniform shop etc.).
- The School Council cannot employ staff. The P&C may employ staff.
Further information on the School Council can be provided upon request.