Dear Parents/Caregivers

Welcome back to the New school Year and a special welcome to all our new students and parents/caregivers. We hope that your time here at Cambridge High will be successful and enjoyable.

A special welcome to all our new Staff, we the Board hope your stay with us at Cambridge High is also enjoyable and professionally challenging.

The Roll stands at similar numbers to last year, but the Ministry will not allocate any further funding for Teaching staff. The Board has decided this is not acceptable and has approved funding from school funds for one more teacher equivalent to alleviate this issue.

We are` also tight on classroom space, again this issue will be alleviated when the Maori resource room is completed in late March.

Shade sails and paving are in place outside the Gym and a number of other building projects are “on the boil”. We will inform you of these as they firm up.

There have been some changes in the Senior management Team, Murray Feast has been appointed as a Deputy Principal with particular responsibility for pastoral care, Shane Tong has taken over responsibility for Personnel and Zane Holton has returned to the Art department as Head of Faculty Art.

We are presently advertising for a Deputy Principal with particular responsibility for Curriculum, we hope to make this appointment by Term 2. Tom Coventry is assisting the management team for the first 5-6 weeks of the term.

The Feedback stage of the Strategic Plan is complete and the Board will sign off the charter and Strategic Plan at a forthcoming meeting. The annual Plan has been approved and will be communicated to all the school family in the next week.

The Ministry of Education has decreed that Board Elections be held in March in line with the rest of country. If you have an interest in Governance of the school please consider standing. There will be details of when and how to apply later this month.

For those new to the school, pictures and contact details of the Board of Trustees are available on the school website. www.camhigh.school.nz

On behalf of the Board welcome again to 2007, it promises to be an exciting and challenging year for all involved in the school.

Greg Liddy

Chairman.