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Board of Trustees

	Mr Grant Weir Chairman of the Board		Mr Adam Fraser Deputy Chairman
	Mr Hans Konlechner Principal		Ms Cushla Close
	Mr Phil Nixon		Ms Tania Stone
	Ms Pauline Hurley Staff Trustee		Miss Jessica Arnold Student Representative

Students have a direct input into the running of the school through their representative on the Board of Trustees. This election was held early in Term 4, 2009. The successful candidate holds office for one year and must be elected from Years 10-13. The student representative this year is Jessica Arnold who replaces Steven Christodoulou

The Board of Trustees Report for 2009/10

The foundations that had been put in place from 2007 continue to bring benefit to the pupils of Hawera High School. These benefits cover the breadth of academic ability within the school from those who have made progress through the numeracy/literacy programmes to those who have benefited through accelerated learning and outside support programmes.

Once again the statistics show our NCEA results above the median across years 11, 12 and 13.
Underpinning this has been an improved focus on pupil standards and school values. The latter being six words that staff should use daily to reinforce pupil behaviour.

The year has seen our principal Paul Ryan resign his position. Paul, through example, knowledge and tenacity, has lead the changes but credit must go to all staff that have accepted personal challenge that has resulted in betterment of themselves, the pupils and the school. The board thank you for that. We also thank Paul for his input to the school over nearly four years.
Hans Konlechner has accepted the principal role from 2010 and we have recruited a principal to further establish Hawera High School as the school of choice.

Aesthetically the school has benefited from the strong progression of our capital development and refurbishment plan. We are now in the middle of a programme that is starting to have a visible impact on the school.
Financially, while we have to be prudent to balance our budget, our first priority is learning and we continue to put significant dollars into extra teaching resources to maximise subject choice.

A brief summary of key points from each committee convenor follows.

Curriculum

Hawera High School continues to provide a wide range of subject choices and multi level learning opportunities so as to meet the varied needs of our students.
Student numbers increased from 2009 to 2010. The school’s roll as at 1^st March 2010 was 846, up from 825 at the end of 2009. The increase has been primarily at Years 12 and 13.
Hawera High School is fully staffed with appropriately trained and qualified teachers.

The 2009 NCEA examination results have maintained the improved performance of recent years.

Percentage of all students obtaining NCEA 2004-2009(Roll based calculation)

	2004	2004	2005	2005	2006	2006	2007	2007	2008	2008	2009	2009
	HHS ALL	NZ decile 5, co-ed	HHS ALL	NZ decile 5, co-ed	HHS ALL	NZ decile 5, co-ed	HHS ALL	NZ decile 5, co-ed	HHS ALL	NZ decile 5, co-ed	HHS ALL	NZ decile 5, co-ed
Level 1 (Yr 11)	45.2	50.6	38.9	50.2	46.3	55.7	57.9	59.0	56.5	64.5	64.2	64.6
Level 2 (Yr 12)	59.1	52.8	54.1	57.2	54.0	59.0	62.5	59.7	71.2	66.0	65.6	64.7
Level 3 (Yr 13)	36.8	43.2	46.6	44.1	40.2	44.0	40.0	43.8	53.8	48.6	50.0	48.0
Level 1 Literacy	58.2	68.1	34.4	68.6	42.3	71.9	61.2	72.8	54.9	77.5	77.0	79.1
Level 1 Numeracy	69.5	74.3	48.9	73.7	68.0	81.3	74.2	81.4	83.7	85.5	90.4	89.3

Statistics sourced from www.nzqa.govt.nz February 2010.

More detailed analysis of these results confirms the continued appropriateness of the school’s development goals.

To improve Maori student achievement.
To increase the proportion of school leavers with qualifications.
To improve student engagement and attendance.

A significant challenge for Hawera High School will be to ensure that all students continue to be provided with appropriate, achievable courses as the standards alignment process phases out unit standards as an assessment tool for school based subjects. At present 49.1% of standards achieved at Hawera High School are unit standards.

Standard Types entered by Hawera High School in 2009

Standard Type	Nos of entries	% not reported	% not achieved	% Achieved	% Merit	% Excellence
Unit Standard	7894	1.6	24.1	74.3	NA	NA
Internally Assessed Achievement Standard	5305	0.8	27.6	43.4	18.3	9.9
Externally Assessed Achievement Standard	4469	NA	47.0	38.4	12.5	2.0

Statistics sourced from www.nzqa.govt.nz February 2010

Finance

At the time of writing the 2009 Annual Accounts are being finalised to go to audit. Position at 31 December, allowing for final account payment, closing stocks and accounts receivable show a small surplus of $3,843.00.
This is a satisfactory result given unbudgeted expenditure of $25k on a new computer programme, principal recruitment and the allowance of up to three FTE’s in teaching staff to be recruited above the MOE allowance.
Support funding from trusts such as TSB and Yarrows and others, were down $72k on last year. Overall though expenditure was only $24k higher showing the management team and staff are aware of the need to maintain control on spending.
2009 also saw further development on the budget by the Executive Officer. This detailed breakdown is now set on a spreadsheet template making it far more transparent for the BOT finance committee.
Our thanks go to Gerald Greenhough for the input into this tool which will be of value in preparing future budgets.
Looking forward it is disconcerting that the initial MOE allowance for 2010 is less than 2009 despite a further increase in roll.

Property

In the third full year of our 7 year property plan, we completed a number of the projects listed therein and made progress towards a couple of larger projects.
In addition to completion of the projects in progress at the end of the previous school year, the following projects (listed with their value) were either complete or well on their way at the end of the 2009 year.

New Covered Way between Dixon and Hall Blocks	$	21,000
Gray Block Distribution Board Upgrade	$	15,000
Dixon & Te Ramanui Toilet	$	135,000
Gray Block Science Reconfigure	$	280,000
Kimihia Access Ramp	$	10,000
Endeavour Deck Safety Matting	$	9,500
Maintenance Block Refurbishment	$	660,000
Dixon / Te Ramanui Roof Repair	$	42,000
Heating & Dist. Board - Admin	$	55,000
Block P Special Needs Toilet	$	8,000
Horticultural Block Upgrade	$	90,000
Dixon/Te Ramanui Dist. Boards	$	26,000
Fire Alarm Upgrade - S Block	$	24,000
TR6 & TR7 Refurbishment	$	83,500
Laurenson Heat Pumps / Dist Bd	$	49,000
	$	=SUM(ABOVE) 1,508,000

With our Transformer installed, we were able to initiate installation of heat pumps around the school as we phase out our ageing gas boiler, and to upgrade block distribution boards around the school to handle the increasing load. It was good to finally make progress on the Maintenance Block Refurbishment, which has taken a lot of work to get off the ground. Although incomplete at the end of the year, it was already turning what had been an eyesore into a credit to the school.It was disappointing that the Ministry proved reluctant to reinstate our Bayly park changing rooms which had been destroyed by fire, as the school no longer has adequate changing facilities anywhere in the grounds for sports teams, and can no longer use Bayly Park for a number of activities.

Staffing

2009 was a year of stability and consolidation with only two new staff members.
Megan Wereta formerly with the THB, was appointed after the resignation of Ainsley Luscombe, and has immediately become an effective Guidance Counsellor in the school system. Megan has been combining her first year as a Hawera High School Guidance Counsellor with a Teacher Training Course and has become very involved in the total life of the school via Stage Challenge, School Production and is a very ardent Gold House member!
Ingrid Frengley-Vaipuna came back at the beginning of ’08 but left during the year upon appointment as Deputy Principal at Patea Area School.
We were fortunate to secure the appointment of Alison Janiten who stepped into Ingrid’s shoes (who was filling in for Fiona Duggan who was on maternity leave). Alison has really made an impact. She was plunged straight into teaching English and Drama to junior and senior classes and involved herself in the life of the school immediately. Alison’s first year at HHS finished on a high with the production of her first musical for Hawera High School, and the first musical production for Hawera High School in three years “Alison – the Musical”. Alison accepted a position here for 2010.

A continuing focus is the gradual implementation of the NZ Curriculum with several professional development days taking place throughout the year, we have been audited on our electronic attendance system and our moderation procedures and in both cases, the reports came back complimenting staff on their professional management of these requirements.
On the extra-curricular side, our staff have been involved in Staff vs Student challenges, quiz teams in local competitions; entered a team in the ’08 Taranaki Steel Formers Around the Mountain Relay (a team is entered again this year); staff competed in the athletic swimming and cross-country events; flower shows; Wearable Arts Awards; field trips aplenty requiring massive organisation and commitment, supervised students at TOPEC to name but a few and all the while continuing to provide quality education for our students.
The House System continues to flourish under the management of Jan Roberts, Pauline Hurley (HoD PE), and House Leaders Tulah Katene (Green), Ric Pintor (Blue), John Roy (Red) and Wendy Middleton (Gold).
On a less happy note Ken Rei (HoD Maori) has been on sick leave for some months now. This has been a difficult time for Ken and Cilla and family and we wish Ken well in his recovery. The difficult situation in the Maori Department has been “managed” by Shay King (who also teaches Te Reo at Patea Area School), Marina Rauputu (reliever and ex DP at Piopio College) and Phil King. We are indeed grateful to these teachers for keeping things going for the students of Te Reo and Maori Studies.

At the beginning of 2010
·         Anna Campbell goes on Maternity Leave
·         Cathryn Anderson – (Maternity Leave appointment) - Mathematics
·         Di Peterson – HOD Computing to replace Lance Owen who shifted with his family to Perth, Australia
·         Mark Nelson – Assistant Teacher of Computing
·         Hendrick (Hennie) Van Deventer – Technology
·         Angela McAlpine – Art – Replacing Claire Turner who left for a position at Hawera Intermediate School
·         Laetitia Grall from England who has filled the International Languages position left vacant in 2008 and is now teaching French and Spanish.
·         Ken Rei is still recovering from serious illness. As yet he has not returned to his teaching position. Shay King is currently employed as HOD Te Reo for Term 1.
·         Tulah Katene (Te Maunga Tuu Lead Teacher) and Frances Elston (Literacy Co-ordinator) have been working on the analysis of student data with staff and continue with the e-AsttLe testing in the Junior school.
·         Lara MacGilloway relinquished her position as GATE Co-ordinator (Gifted and Talented) and this position was taken up, in 2010, by Ed Fern. Ed Fern must also be congratulated for his appointment as the National High
          Jump Coach.
·         The appointment of Hans Konlechner as Principal of Hawera High School.

Mike Corbett
Chairperson
Hawera High School Board of Trustees