INTRO TO SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS

By Administration | Posted: Wednesday July 16, 2025

The Boards of all state and state integrated schools are required to hold elections every three years, and this will be happening again in 2025.

 

The School Board is an important part of our school as they set the strategic direction for our school, consult with our school community about our school, monitor progress and let parents know how the school is progressing against its annual targets, ensure the schools funding is spent wisely and ensure that we are giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi within our school. 

All secondary school boards consist of five parent representatives (elected by parents/caregivers), a staff representative elected by the staff, and a student representative, elected by the students, along with the Principal who is also part of the Board. Because we are a faith based integrated school, up to four proprietors representatives are appointed to the Trinity Catholic College Board by the Bishop (these Board members are appointed rather than voted on to the Board).

 

The current board have made the decision to appoint Election Pilot as the Returning Officer for our election and for the election to be provided online.  Election Pilot have been assisting schools with elections for over 20 years and have been the only election provider accredited by the Ministry of Education to provide online election services since online elections started in 2022.  Nomination and voting forms will be sent to all eligible voters by email directly from Election Pilot.  If we don’t have an email address for you, nomination and voting papers will be sent by post so no one will miss out.

 

School Board Elections must be held in accordance with the provisions in the Education and Training Act 2020 and the Education (Board Elections) Regulations 2022.  Your name and contact details have been provided to Schooled Election Pilot to enable the provision of elections services for our school as required by legislation.  They will use your contact details for the provision of election services Trinity Catholic College only and your details will be deleted 60 days after the election date as required by legislation.

 

If you have any questions about the election process, please contact the Returning Officer directly on 0800 VOTENZ (0800 868 369) or election@electionpilot.nz.

 

We will continue to keep you updated throughout the various stages of the election process, and our election date is 10th September 2025. If you would like more information about the work of the current Trinity Board, please feel free to contact the current Presiding Member, Barb Long at board@trinity.school.nz