Welcome to Brisbane State High’s P&C!

To our new and existing families, welcome to our school community! The Brisbane State High School P&C, run by volunteers, exists to engage parents and citizens in ways that build and sustain purposeful relationships with the school in order to foster improving education and developmental outcomes of students. We hope that you will find information on this website useful to support you and your child/children’s journey through secondary school and to maximise the experience. Please call on 07 3291 4173 or email on admin.officer@bshspandc.org if we can assist further.

Purpose

Our P&C exists to facilitate the betterment of all students by fostering meaningful collaboration between parents, interested citizens and the school. This focus is expressed in our Purpose statement:

Supporting our students to reach their full potential through actively engaging parents, school and community

Member Volunteers

The P&C is a volunteer membership based organisation, open to all parents and guardians with children currently enrolled at the school, as well as to citizens who have an interest in the educational outcomes of students.

Becoming a member is easy! Simply complete our P&C Membership Form and drop it into our P&C Office (located next to the I Block Canteen), bring it along to a P&C meeting or email it to admin.officer@bshspandc.org. Becoming a member is how you can have a say on P&C activities and priorities, with only members able to vote on motions.

P&C Meetings

The P&C meets at 7:00pm on the fourth Monday of each month (except during school holidays/public holidays) in the PAC Foyer, on the Merivale Street Campus. Parking is available via Gate M4 on Merivale Street (refer to map).

All members of the school community are welcome to attend!

Members only are permitted to vote.

Meeting dates for 2022 are:

Monday 21 February
Monday 28 March (Annual General Meeting)
Monday 23 May
Monday 25 July
Monday 22 August
Monday 24 October
Monday 21 November

Our Team

Our dedicated volunteer Executive Committee employ a range of staff to assist providing services to the school community.

At the yearly Annual General Meeting members propose and vote on the composition of the P&C Executive Committee.

The role of the committee is to serve its members and govern all aspects of P&C operations. Executive decision-making authority is established by the P&C’s Constitution and regulatory framework noted above. These require all decisions to be approved by members through motions voted on at General or Annual General Meetings. When a member is elected to the Executive Committee, they fill a role that stipulates the bounds afforded to that role by members.

Our 2022 Executive Committee members are:

President: Melissa Buirchell, president@bshspandc.org
Secretary: Melissa Smith, secretary@bshspandc.org
Assistant Secretary: Nicole Ross, assistant.secretary@bshspandc.org
Treasurer: Nissan Samaraweera, treasurer@bshspandc.org
Assistant Treasurer: Tuan Do, assistant.treasurer@bshspandc.org
Vice-President (General): Leila Beikmohammadloei, vp.general@bshspandc.org
Vice-President (Operations): Gina McIntyre, vp.operations@bshspandc.org
Assistant Vice-President (People & Community): Nazia Talib, assistant.vp.community@bshspandc.org

The roles of Vice-President (People & Community), Vice-President (Growth), Assistant Vice-President (Growth) are currently vacant.

Come visit!

After utilising a number of spaces across the school over many years, from Term 2 we are now located in a purpose built, dedicated office space next to the I Block canteen. Please pop into our office and say hello!