School Council President Reflection As a group, School Council has continued to kick some amazing goals in 2023! The year started with members of School Council being on the selection panel for the formal recruitment and appointment of Bill Panas as our College Principal. Bill ’ s leadership and vision has had an immediate impact to the school, with significant attention to improving high expectations of students, academic rigour, school pride and community connectedness.
AMANDA FARRELLY
Both school - led and School Council - led activities have been well - attended and supported, such as: Mothers Day afternoon tea; Fathers Day Breakfast; the fundraising raffle at Production; fortnightly school assemblies; and, Open Days during Education and Science Weeks. I would like to thank all School Council members for their time and efforts this year. It certainly has been a team effort and everyone has added value by coming in with different perspectives and backgrounds in meeting discussions. It has been a privilege to lead such an aligned and committed group. To The Lakes Leadership team, thank you for all that you do for us and lastly, thank you to The Lakes staff for supporting School Council in our initiatives. If anyone would like to join Council in 2024, then please reach out. It ’ s the parent/carer community that make a school, so we would love parents/carers to be involved, the more the merrier!
Our goal for School Council last year was to upgrade facilities, and this came to fruition in 2023 by specifically allocating money in the budget for: new carpets; wall partitions; landscaping; the long awaited and much needed toilet upgrade on the Primary Campus, all of which have either started or have been completed. The synthetic basketball courts on Primary and learning pod partitions on Secondary are still works in progress, however fingers crossed these will be done early in 2024. Perhaps even more excitingly, School Council ’ s number one goal for 2023 has been to engage families and re - create a sense of community! Re - establishing a Fundraising Sub - committee has been the biggest achievement, together with a successful inaugural Parent/Carer Engagement Survey, which has given School Council and the Leadership Team some really interesting insights and ideas on how to create a stronger community culture and what the school can improve on.
Amanda Farrelly School Council President
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