Meeting+minutes

Minutes from Communication Team Meeting – January 25, 3pm.

Present: Bruce McWilliams, Patsy McWilliams, Bruce Knox, Angela Sharp, Joshua Smith. _

Bruce M: disseminated the mid year report and action plan for approval by the committee. All agreed that it was fine and should be presented as is at whole school meeting. With the addition of a dynamic visual presentation.

Pats: Informed us on the secretary update. The School has permission to hire a registrar, secretaries for the 3 principals and Maddy. Maddy’s secretary will potentially start on Saturday. Patsy will encourage Maddy’s sec. to take on the wave editing as an interim.

Bruce K: suggested streamlining distribution for the newsletter and will look into possibilities of web based technologies for editing and distributing

Bruce M: presented teacher recruitment brochures put out by KAUST to match their own recruiting material. Team was well impressed.

Bruce M: Communications policy – a base for us to work from to develop a staff handbook. A major project for the comm. team (possibly beyond this year)

Bruce M: general discussion about the possibility of an sms system for mass immediate communication. Bruce K. to look into systems and report back to the team.
 * Emails sent to both Mobily and STC on Wednesday at 10:45am. (Bruce K)

General Discussion on the Survey as outlined in our action plan. Decided that we will go ahead with it as planned. Use finalsite to create and send out. Comm. team to contribute questions, ideas, suggestion via a wiki. Pats to spearhead to the questions.

Bruce K: suggestion to switch the comm. policy and survey around (timeframe wise). Do the survey and then use the results to guide us in making the policy. Assign jobs will take place simultaneously with the policy writing.