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St Martins School Board

St Martins School Board

What We Do

The St Martins School Board operates in accordance with the Education Act (2020). It is the Crown entity responsible for the governance and the control of the management of the school.

The Board is the employer of all staff in the school, is responsible for setting the school’s strategic direction in conjunction with parents, staff and students, and ensuring that its school provides a safe environment and quality education for all its students. School Boards are also responsible for overseeing the management of personnel, curriculum, property, finance, school policies and procedures and administration.

More information about the role of a School Board is available from the New Zealand School Trustees Association.

Guiding Principles of the St Martins School Board

Planning
Our strategic plan guides everything that we as a board implement at St Martins School | Hāto Mātene. Using the feedback from our school community we set new goals and develop the future of our school as part of a five year plan.

Identity
At St Martins | Hāto Mātene we continue to discuss and review our response to creating a strong cultural and social school identity. In recent years we have introduced many initiatives to ensure we integrate te reo into our everyday language. Our beautiful wāharoa welcomes visitors into our school, while kowhaiwhai unique to St Martins School | Hāto Mātene features on signage around the school and is designed to tell the story of our school.

Wellbeing
The wellbeing of our students and their Whānau is a primary focus of St Martins | Hāto Mātene Board and staff. To support our community we have established many effective onsite resources & activities as well as a network of independant support specialist organisations. Our school values: Respect/Manaaki, Caring/Aroha, Responsibility/Haepapa, Personal Best/E Ranga!, Learning/Ako are inter-woven into our teaching and learning to support the wellbeing of all.

Quality Education
This is what it is all about! Our goal is to provide the best teachers and the most well equipped classrooms to ensure St Martins | Hāto Mātene students have the best learning experience. With an ongoing focus on national standards of student achievement, assessment and monitoring systems, along with cultural responsiveness and equality for all learners. The Board also support the many extra curricular programmes that run throughout the school. Some of these programmes include:

Garden to Table for the Year 3/4 syndicate.
Maths and Literacy programmes for students across the school working below expectations.
GATE programmes for those working above National Standards.
Leadership opportunities for our Year 7/8 syndicate.

Building Community
The Board support the PTA community who are doing wonderful things to build the sense of community at our school, as well as raise money and undertake jobs around the school and community.