SGB WORKSHOP - A GUIDE TO SURVIVE YOUR TIME IN OFFICE - Face to Face

Outcomes of Workshop

This workshop will enable you to:

• Be informed, as SGB members, of your roles and responsibilities in light of provincial and national legislation in the simplest way
• Take our diverse South African context into consideration, and explore this culturally sensitive approach
• Handover procedures
• When must this take place?
• What must be handed over?
• Previous records such as agendas and minutes
• Policy files
• Financial files, including list of suppliers, audited statements, contracts, etc.
• Change in signatories for the particular school’s accounts, especially in the case of higher-quintile schools and Section 21 schools.
• Signing of handover checklists by incoming and outgoing SGB members
• Election of members to specific portfolios
• Co-opting members for their expertise
• Sending out meeting invitations and agendas
• Meeting protocol
• Meeting procedures
• Minutes of meetings
• The roles and responsibilities of different members
• Establishing committees and defining roles within these committees (section 30(1))
• Recruitment of teachers (section 20(1)(j);(7))
• Conflict management

Target Audience

Newly-appointed parents and school members to SGSs, principals, deputy principals, parents, teachers and RCL members

Duration: Full day

SACE PD Points:

10