Profile

Chairperson - Mr Chris Ward

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Mr Ward has been the chairperson of our school's Board of Trustees for four years. We interviewed him to find our more about him and the job he does.

How did you become a chairperson?
I was nominated for the job by the other board members.

How many days a week do you work?
I have a full time job during the week, but I am on call 7 days a week for the school.

Do you have a boss?
As chairperson of the board I have to report to the Ministry of Education.

What is your job about? What do you do?
The chairperson has to chair meetings of the board, make decisions with the school principal about issues at school on a day to day basis and represent the school at events and meetings.

Do you find the job easy or hard?
Sometines it can be hard if a difficult decision needs to be made but most of the time the job is enjoyable because Manurewa Central School is such a great school!

What is one good point about your job?
I get to make Manurewa Central School a nice place for the staff and children to come to and with lots of fun things to do.

What is the hardest part of your job?
The hardest part is trying to make sure that the decisions made are in the best interests of the school and community.

Wow that sounds like a lot of hard work! We never really knew how important the Board of Trustees' work was!

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