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Code of Conduct

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Members of the Board will:

  1. Ensure that the needs of the students and their learning are given full consideration when planning, resourcing and implementing the school’s curriculum.
  2. Ensure that all students are provided with an education which respects their individuality and which challenges them to reach the highest standards of personal achievement.
  3. Serve their school and their community to the best of their ability and be honest, reliable, trustworthy, loyal and fair.
  4. Act with fairness and integrity in all matters concerning staff, the principal, parents and students.
  5. Maintain the confidentiality and trust vested in them.
  6. Ensure strict confidentiality of papers and information related to the Board’s position as employer.
  7. Ensure that individual trustees do not act independently of the Board and its decisions.
  8. Accept that the Principal is the professional leader of the school who is responsible to the Board.

PRINCIPAL

The Principal will:

  1. Ensure that the needs of the students and their learning are given full consideration in planning, resourcing and implementing the school’s curriculum.
  2. Show commitment to the belief that each student is of equal value and is entitled to an education which respects her/his individuality and challenges her/him to reach her/his highest standards of personal achievement.
  3. Be loyal to the charter and fully committed to achieving its purpose, aims and objectives.
  4. Act fairly and with integrity in all matters concerning staff, members of the Board of Trustees, parents and students, and show a commitment to the continuing development of the staff’s professional skills.
  5. Work co-operatively with school staff, but take final responsibility for decisions within the Principal’s authority as delegated by the Board.
  6. Provide all information about a student to any person with legal rights to the information who requests it and respect confidentiality by keeping information about a student from people who have no right to it.
  7. Not vote in Board of Trustees’ decisions in relation to the Principal’s employment.

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