PSA

Parent/Staff Association

Welcome to the Parent/Staff Association (known as the PSA) web page.  We would like to introduce ourselves, explain our aims and objectives, and establish a forum for dialogue between all parties, i.e. parents, staff and students.

A. What are our aims?

The PSA was established to:

• promote consultation and co-operation between the parents, staff and children of the school with regard to the interests, activities and needs of the school;

• promote meetings, discussions, lectures and publications to enhance the school and its interests;

• promote interaction amongst the parents, in consultation with the PSA Executive Committee to encourage all members to play a full and active role in the social activities and extra-curricular programme of the school;

• to raise and collect funds by any proper and legal means to enable the Association to support the acquisition of suitable equipment and/or amenities and provide supporting services or works as may prove desirable for the benefit of the school, or the school community;

• to make contributions, each year after the AGM, to charitable organizations as approved by the Executive Committee, to a minimum of 40% of income.

B. Who is a member?

The following two categories of people are automatically considered as members of the Association, unless they contract out in writing to the secretary of the Executive Committee:

• All parents and guardians of children attending the school;

• All members of the contractual staff of the school, whether full-time or part-time.

C. Annual General Meeting (AGM)

This is the official forum where election of the following post holders takes place;

i. Chairperson, elected from the parent members of the Executive Committee;
ii. Vice-Chairperson, elected from the staff members of the Executive Committee;
iii. Treasurer
iv. First Secretary
v. Second Secretary
vi. Stock Control Manager

Also at the AGM:

Approval of the minutes of the previous AGM.
Approval of the report of the activities of the association for the past year.
Receipt and approval of the report of the Treasurer for the past year.
Receive nominations and elect the parent members for the new Executive .
Committee and accept the Teacher members, chosen as described in the
Constitution.

The PSA is currently represented by an Executive Committee; below are their names and contact details.  Please feel free to get in touch with any of us for whatever concerns, observations or ideas you may have.

Andre Peridakis (Chairman) 0777 200004
Maha Nino (Treasurer) 06 5521070
Gudrun Al Munaizel (Secretary) 0777 241257
Najat El Ziq (Secretary) 0799 689300
Julie Nasser (Stock controller)

A full copy of the PSA constitution is available upon request.

We look forward to an active, fun and prosperous year; we are here to serve, please get involved!

Andre Peridakis
Chairman