The Sheffield
Family of Catholic Schools' Constitution
The
name of the Collaboration shall be ‘Sheffield Family of Catholic Schools’.
The Core Purpose of the Collaboration shall be to promote curriculum and professional
development,
thereby enhancing the quality of teaching and learning in all Catholic primary schools in Sheffield and to work together in
true partnership, thereby sharing expertise, so as to enrich the education of all the children in the Partnership schools,
in an atmosphere of Christian love, which will benefit Catholic Education in the city.
The Collaboration will offer services to other bodies where appropriate.
The Collaboration shall be non-political.
Membership of the Collaboration shall be open to all Catholic/Joint Primary schools within the Sheffield
Local Authority boundaries. The Collaboration may offer one year
‘associate membership’ to other schools in the Diocese, subject
to the agreement of
the
Management Board.
The management and control of the Collaboration
shall be vested in a Management Board comprised of:
Chair
Vice-chair
Coordinator
The Board shall
consist of those three members who will be elected every two years. The Board shall have the power to co-opt persons as and
when necessary and to
form
working groups to deal with issues when they arise. The majority of persons on any working group must be members of the Management
Board.
The Coordinator shall keep an account of all income and
expenditure and shall present regular financial reports to the Board. The Annual General Meeting of the Partnership which
will be held at the first meeting of each academic year.
Annual subscriptions to the Partnership will be set at the Spring meeting,
based on PLASC numbers. Any bank account shall be in the name of the Partnership on the signatures of the following officers:
- The Chairperson of the Collaboration
- The Vice-Chairperson of the Collaboration
- The Coordinator
The financial
year of the Collaboration shall run from the 1 September to 31 August.
Monies raised by the Collaboration shall be used to foster the objectives stated in the core purpose.
A quorum at an Annual General Meeting of the Collaboration shall consist of
representatives from eight schools.
No alteration of these
rules may be made, except at an Annual General Meeting, or at any Extraordinary General Meeting called for this purpose. An
Extraordinary General Meeting may only be convened by not less that eight member schools, giving twenty eight days notice,
in writing, to the CollaborationCoordinator.
Notices of Motion
for the Annual General Meeting, for the inclusion on the Agenda, must be in the hands of the Collaboration Coordinator, twenty
eight days prior to the Annual General Meeting.
Notices of Motion
for the Annual General Meeting will be given, in writing, to all member schools by the Collaboration Coordinator at least
fourteen days prior to the Annual General Meeting.
At Annual General
Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings of the Collaboration, one person from each member school will be entitled to vote.
Any assets remaining on the dissolution of the Collaboration,
after satisfying any outstanding debts and liabilities, shall be distributed amongst the member schools of the Collaboration,
based on PLASC pupil numbers.
