3 Mar Issue 21.3 - Port Moresby International School
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Issue 21.3 3 Mar
Dear Parents and Guardians, close at 4pm Friday 26th March. If there are more nomi-
nations than spaces, then there is a ballot at the AGM.
We are now in Week 6 of Term One and more than half
way through the term. Students should by now have got I hope that we can fill up the spaces on the Board as
into a routine and be managing their time using their when they are not it can often be difficult to get a quor-
planners and diaries. um for Board Meetings as well as the Board Committee
Meetings.
POMIS School Board
Special Resolution 1/2021
The School Board had their first meeting of the year in
Week 5. The School Board consists mainly of parent rep- At this year’s AGM the following Special Resolution is to
resentatives. There are supposed to be ten of these alt- be voted on;
hough at the moment we only have nine. As well as the
That the association amend the objects of the Associa-
parent representatives there is an IEA Representative
tion in the constitution:
and a Staff Representative. The students are represented
by the School Captains. Our current Board consists of: From;
John Cholai – Chair 1.(b) The objects of the Association are to:
Angela Mandie-Filer – Deputy Chair 1. be a member of the International Education Agency
Eddy Sangrador, Teck Ilave, Susie Lepani, Mark Soi, Lisa of Papua New Guinea Limited (the Agency) and to repre-
Costigan, Wayne Kasou, Phillip Samar – Parent Reps sent the interests of Port Moresby International High
School (“the School”).
Neal Mather IEA Rep
To;
Sakina Cholai, Nakeau Sanewai, Gai Araga, Anton Doa –
Student Reps. 1.(b) The objects of the Association are to:
1. be a member of the International Education Agency
The Committees of the Board are; of Papua New Guinea Limited (the Agency) and to repre-
sent the interests of Port Moresby International High
Enrolment & Discipline
School, also known as Port Moresby International
Finance
School (“the School)
Staffing
Capital Works.
Notice of School Association Annual
At their first meeting this year the Board went through General Meeting
last year’s finance reports and reports on examination
results as well as approving the final budget for 2021.
Summaries of the finance and examination reports are
PORT MORESBY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
presented at the AGM.
ASSOCIATION
Notice is hereby given that the 23rd Annual General
Annual General Meeting
Meeting of the Port Moresby International School Asso-
This will be held on Monday 29th March (during the first ciation will be held at POMIS on Monday 29th March.
round of Parent-Teacher Interviews) at 5pm. The AGENDA
meeting involves the presentation of the Annual Report
and the nomination of members to the BOG. As noted Open Meeting
above, the BOG is supposed to consist of ten parent rep-
resentatives as well as an IEA Representative, Staff Rep- Apologies
resentative and Student Representatives. Eight current Minutes of previous AGM
members are coming to the end of their three year term
and so must re-nominate to continue on the Board. A Receive the Committee’s Report
number of them will not be nominating and so there will Determine the number of committee members
be quite a few vacancies on the Board for this year.
Election of committee members
We are therefore formally opening the nomination pro-
Special Resolution 1/2021
cess; the nomination form is attached with this news-
letter. Each nominee must be nominated by one other Closure.
parent and seconded by another. They also need to sign
(CONTINUED OVERLEAF)
the form showing their acceptance. Nominations willPRINCIPAL’S NOTES. Late coming
Many latecomers claim that the reason is the traffic in
the morning. However, our school buses are rarely late
Tribute to Honour the Memory of Grand Chief The
which means that if people leave home early enough
Right Hon. Sir Michael Somare
then they can get to school on time. They just need to
As you are doubtless all aware we are in the middle of a make it a priority. There are also significant differences
two week period of national mourning in honour of the in the rate of late coming between grades - Grade 7 & 8
Late Grand Chief The Right Hon. Sir Michael Somare. To have a much lower rate of late coming than other grades
mark the end of this period there will be a public holiday - this indicates that for these other grades the late com-
next Friday, 12th March. ing is not simply due to random factors beyond their
Also as part of this period of national mourning govern- control.
ment schools have been instructed to hold tributes to
honour the memory of the late Grand Chief on Thursday This is an issue that parents need to assist the school
11th March. Out of respect for him we will also hold our with.
own events to honour his memory. We will hold assem-
blies for each grade where we will pay tribute to the Late IEA SWAT
Grand Chief. These will be scheduled as follows This will be conducted on Wednesday, March 10. Please
read the parent Q & A below.
P1 – 8.20am Grade 12/P2 – 8.45am Grade 11
P3 – 10:30 am Grade 10/P4 – 11.20 am Grade 9 Mr Steven Rowley, Principal.
P5 – 1:00 pm Grade 7/P6 – 1.55pm Grade 8.
Parents are welcome to join us at any of these assem-
blies which are planned to last for around twenty
minutes.
Last week Wednesday, a group of Grade 12s conducted a presentation and a series of workshops with the
Grade 7 cohort on the issue of gender inequality in Papua New Guinea. Equality for All, a student-led pro-
ject, aims to spread awareness and shed light on the situation surrounding gender-based violence and
equality in PNG. More importantly, we strive to give the younger generation the information and voice
they need to speak up against this issue. The presentation on Wednesday allowed us to engage with the
Grade 7s and it was really interesting to see and hear the students’ opinions and ideas. We look forward
to working with students around the school and with other organisations in order to inform and expand
our opportunities.
We would like to thank all the Grade 7 teachers for their feedback and for allowing us the lesson time to
do our presentation and to Ms Richards for assisting us with the presentation and project.
Equality for AllAnnual Student Assessment. Wednesday, March 10
Important Dates for Term 1 W7 Friday March 12 Public Holiday W8 Monday March 15 Pi Day W8 Wednesday March 17 School X Country W9 Monday March 22 Student Free Day W9 March 25-27 Game of Dragons W9 Friday March 26 Interim Reports Distributed W10 Monday March 29 School AGM W10 Monday March 29 Parent Teacher Interviews W10 Tuesday March 30 Parent Teacher Interviews W10 Thursday April 1 Last Day of Classes Term 1 W1 Term 2 Classes Commence Monday 19 April POMIS will be taking part in the Australian National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence on Friday, March 19. This is a day for schools, students and the com- munity to say Bullying. No Way! Every year POMIS runs Grade level seminars for the entry level grades; G7/9/11. During these seminars students are taken through a series of exercises and infor- mation which detail the effects of bullying and the processes we have at school to deal with it. (G8/10/12 students receive a seminar on Cybersafety every year.) This year we are stepping up our commitment to battle this problem that affects all schools; we are using the Australian National Day of Action and ALL students at school will take an anti-bullying pledge on the day. This will be led by our Roll Call teachers and our three Deans of School; Joyce Nindivi, Greg Malie and Thomas Ka- vanamur. Nothing will ever change if we don’t make this a priority.
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