Board of Trustees

Allenvale is a specialist provider for students who are in the majority, verified as eligible to receive targeted funding through the Ongoing Reviewable Resourcing Scheme (ORRS). We employ specialist teachers and a range of therapists including speech and language therapists, an occupational therapist, a physiotherapist, a psychologist and a music therapist. We have approximately 80 staff on site with a role around 125 students between the ages of 5 years and 21 years.

The board of trustees was re-elected early in 2010 and our role is to oversee the governance of Allenvale School. The board decides on policy matters and establishes operating procedures which then become the responsibility of the school’s management, through the principal, to implement and maintain. The board deals with a large number of governance challenges ranging from infrastructure to teachers’ permanent appointments. Allenvale is a special school and the board of trustees is pro-active in ensuring the special education facilities meet the requirements, now and in the future, of all the special needs students who have the opportunity to attend the school. The premise on which we govern places the student at the very centre of our thinking and decision making. Our vision is toward community inclusion which, through our core beliefs, leads to our mission statement.

Allenvale staff, in partnership with the school’s community, will provide a respectful, focused and safe learning environment. This will be achieved through excellence in teaching that ensures that all students are provided with knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable them to be included in the community while meeting their aspirations and those of their family, whanau or caregiver.

Allenvale is a forward thinking school that seeks to become a centre of excellence for those with special needs within the region. With the dedicated principal, staff and board our journey takes our young students toward total inclusion in a kind, compassionate and professional way.

Peter Coker OBE
Chair – Allenvale School Board of Trustees