School Charter

A School Charter is the guiding document of the Board.  It establishes the mission, aims, objectives, directions and targets of the board that will give effect to the Government's national education guidelines and the Boards priorities.    It is an undertaking by the Board to the Minister of Education to ensure that the school is managed, organised, conducted, and administered for the purposes set out.  Every state and integrated school must have an approved written charter of goals and objectives..

The education Act 1989 requires every school to have a charter.  A charter is:

• A document for your board, community, staff and stakeholders that outlines your school vision and values and the important education goals and student outcomes your school is striving to meet or improve

• A tool to assist your board to make decisions aimed a raising student achievement

• A document that contains your school’s main target for raising student achievement and the measure that will be take to achieve these targets.

Sections 60-64 of the Education Act outline the legislative requirements on the content of the charter.    A Charter must contain:

• A strategic section that sets out, for the next three to five years, the boards aims, directions, objectives and priorities for raising student achievement (including an aims or objectives that designate the schools special characteristics or its special character)

• Annually updated section that sets out for the relevant year the board’s aims, directions, objectives and priorities relating to raising student achievement, and sets targets for the key activities and achievement of objectives for the year. 

The charter is used by the Audit Office and ERO as part of the obligations on which a school is reviewed. The charter must be prepared and submitted to the Ministry of Education in February each year.

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