Area School Organisation
Mercury Bay Area School is an Area or Composite school consisting of three distinct learning groups all on one site. We cater for students aged five and 19 years of age and for every school year from Year 1 through to Year 13. Each of the three learning groups is led by a Deputy Principal and an Assistant Principal who are responsible for the learning and achievement, welfare, discipline, guidance, attendance and class placement of every student in their section of the school.
Raising Achievement Through Unity and Positivity
Our major focus is on student achievement. Our positive, caring and supportive learning environment enables each child to develop mentally, physically, socially and emotionally. Our school provides:
- quality education
- specialist programmes
- a positive atmosphere
- programmes for international students
- co-curricular sporting and cultural opportunities.
Our Guiding Statement:
“Student centered learning and achievement—Students First”
We believe the whole learner is founded on an understanding of three fundamental beliefs and educational platforms;
- Relational Trust: Quality Relationships
- Personalised Student Journey: Pathways
- Transformative Learning and Schooling: Effective Pedagogy.
School Board
The Board meet every month on a Thursday at 4.30pm in the school library.*
If you would like to attend and present an item at a board meeting (presentations are limited to 5 minutes) or you would like to have an item added to the agenda, you will need to email the Board Secretary or the Presiding Member nine days prior to the meeting.
If due to time constraints your item cannot go onto the current agenda it will be added to the agenda for the next month and you will be notified.
Seven days prior to the meeting the Agenda goes live on the school website. If there is something you are interested in you are welcome to attend the meeting as an observer. Our meetings are open to the public.
After the meeting the secretary produces the minutes. The board has up to seven days to approve the minutes and they are then posted on the website.
Current Trustees
Daniel Asquith
Board Member
Gary Hinds
Board Member
Lorraine Macallister
Board Member
Joe Davis
Board Member
Max Ross
Board Member
Tania Dixon
Board Member
Hugh Fairweather
Staff Representative
India Percival
Student Representative
Ross Dunn
Principal / Tumaki
Karin Farrelly
BOT Secretary
Role of the School Board
"All of New Zealand's state and state-integrated schools have a school board. The school board is the Crown entity responsible for the governance and the control of the management of the school.
The board is the employer of all staff in the school, is responsible for setting the school's strategic direction in consultation with parents, staff and students, and ensuring that its school provides a safe environment and quality education for all its students. Boards are also responsible for overseeing the management of personnel, curriculum, property, finance and administration."
More information
About Boards
For more information about boards, how they run, members and becoming one please see the NZSTA website.
About the MBAS Board
For more information regarding Mercury Bay Area School's Board please contact the board chair via the BOT secretary email.