The purpose of School Councils in ESF schools is to work in conjunction with the senior management team and staff to help provide the very best education for its students.
The school council:
- is accountable to the Board of Governors and also to parents and the wider community for the way it carries out its functions;
- seeks to develop effective working relationships with the principal, staff and parents; ESF management; other schools and the wider community;
- acts at all times in accordance with the requirements laid down in the Ordinance and Regulations;
- is a collective entity and acts as a group. No one councillor or category of councillors has any right to act individually except when the school council has delegated authority to do so.
The strength of a school council lies in the talents and commitment of its members, and in their ability to work together as a team for the good of the school.
The BHS Council has 10 members, comprised of the following:
- a Chairman, appointed by the Board, who is neither an employee of ESF nor the parent of a student at the School;
- 2 persons from the general community who are neither employees of ESF nor parents of students at the School, appointed by the Board;
- 2 persons elected by members of the teaching staff of BHS from among their own number;
- 2 parents who are not employees of ESF, one elected by the parent members of our PTA committee and one elected by the parents of the School;
- 1 person elected by the support staff of BHS from among their own number;
- the Chief Executive Officer of ESF, or her appointed delegate;
- the Principal.
The Council has meetings 5 times each year.
