Halls Gap Primary School
School Council
School Council Meeting
21st of March, 2013
MEETING OPENED:
5.15pm
PRESENT
Jill Faulkner, Dannielle Hutchins, Kate McAloon, Simon Farrer, Catherina Ripper, Sue Boschen, Darren Linke,
Ja-San Trimble, Rod Spinks
APOLOGIES
Motion: That the apologies be accepted
Moved:
Seconded:
MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
Motion: That the minutes as circulated be accepted as a true and correct record of the previous meeting.
Moved:
Catherina Ripper
Seconded: Darren Linke
BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES
 Nil
CORRESPONDENCE
Inwards:
 Uniting Church of Australia – Rev. Susan Pearse
 DEECD – Use of school premises by community language schools
 DEECD – Personal goods brought to school
 Craft market “query”- Action- Send letter and guidelines as a reply.
Outwards:
 Application for the general local law 2012
Motion: That the correspondence presented be received.
Moved:
Jill Faulkner
Seconded: Darren Linke
FINANCIAL REPORT
FEBRUARY
Balance of High Yield Investment Account as at 028.02.2013
Balance of Official Account as at 28.02.2013
(Unpresented cheques of $11 681.55)
$103 638.63
$10 575.74
Motion: That the financial reports as distributed be accepted, that all accounts be passed for payments including
cheques numbered 6399-6403 totalling $1 387.63 be ratified.
Moved:
Danielle Hutchins
Seconded: Catherina Ripper
Motion: That an investment transfer from Westpac to the Official Account of $6 000.00 be ratified.
Moved:
Darren Linke
Seconded: Ja-San Trimble
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
We currently have 27 enrolments. Up 1 since our last school council meeting. This is great news and
we managed to get him onto our census which closed on 28th of February so funding for him is
included in our student resource package.
Kate has agreed to continue at HGPS for 1 more term for 3 days per week. Kate will provide admin
time for me on Monday and Wednesday and will replace Sam in her classroom on a Tuesday. Sam
has negotiated a change of working days which did not cause any problems.
On Monday of this week I went to Merrivale PS in Warrnambool which is a school of approximately
180 students to watch the Daily 5 in action. The Daily Five provides a structure to develop habits of
reading, writing and working collaboratively. The Five are: Read to self, Read to someone, Listen to
reading, Word work and Writing work. Lots of ideas. Kate and Sam will also be given opportunities to
go and visit schools/classrooms.
Cluster Day tomorrow - a fantastic transition opportunity, particularly for our upper level students.
Cluster teachers plan a meeting for early next term.
On demand testing is up and working which is great news – great assistance with planning and goal
setting.
The Labour Day market was a great success. It is a shame we are having trouble finding volunteers
but numbers appear a little more promising for the Easter market.
Moved: Kate McAloon
Seconded: Ja-San Trimble
FUNDRAISING REPORT
Market proposal- To be considered
Moved:
Seconded:
GENERAL BUSINESS
Excursion approvals – Cluster Day
Motion: That excursions be approved
Moved: Catherina Ripper
Seconded: Jill Faulkner
Parks Victoria wanting to remove/kill non-native plants in school grounds- Go ahead
JSC casual dress day – Wednesday 27th March
Motion: That casual dress day be approved
Moved: Catherina Ripper
Seconded: Ja-San Trimble
Day/time of future school council meetings – time limit, contact details
Thursday- 3:45pm-Finance
Thursday- 4pm- School Council Meeting
All agenda items to be lodged with either the School Council President or the school Principal by 4.00pm on the
day prior to the scheduled meeting.