Burnside High School PTA was so grateful to be able to host multi award-winning teacher and researcher Ekant Veer at last week’s general meeting.

Ekant Veer is a Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Christchurch Knowledge Commons at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. He is a multi award-winning teacher and researcher having been named in the Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors worldwide; an Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award winner; UC’s Teaching Medal awardee in 2017 and five times winner of the UCSA’s lecturer of the year award. And he’s failed…many, many, many times. It’s from these failings that the most exciting knowledge is created and we learn the most about ourselves. Failing is good. However, he’s also seen many people around him fail and never recover. Others fail and go on to achieve amazing things. Ekant discussed the culture that has been created around failing and feeling like a failure and how best to support our rangatahi to grow from their setbacks and build a culture that encourages failing but not feeling like a failure.

You can find attached Ekant's presentation about “Failing vs Failure: Helping us all grow from our setbacks.”

Thank you Ekant! 

 PTA Treasurer position

Tonia Konstantinopoulou has resigned as Treasurer of the PTA after four years and now we are looking for someone to take over this role. The role includes working with a wonderful, supportive committee to be a link between the school, parents and whanau.

What does the Treasurer’s role involve?

Experience with Xero is helpful but not essential, training can be provided. The role includes the following:

• Pay suppliers of the uniform shop
• Refund the school for the projects approved in the funding meetings
• Regularly reconcile accounts transactions with bank transactions
• Prepare the six monthly GST Return
• Prepare the Financial reports for the period between PTA meetings and present them at the meetings to be approved

If you are interested or have any questions about any aspect of the role, please do not hesitate to contact us at pta.burnside@gmail.com

Uniform Shop 

The Uniform Shop sign has now been installed!  

Many thanks to our Principal Mr Phil Holstein.

Next PTA meeting

Our next PTA meeting will be 

on Monday 6th November at 7.30 in the BHS staff room.Guest speaker to be confirmed – watch this space!

Current PTA Executive:

Chairperson: Matt Darnbrough

Treasurer: Tonia Konstantinopoulou

Uniform Shop Coordinator: Jemma Nartea

Secretary: Rebecca Matheson

Correspondence & Funding Liaison: Chrisa Pipilaki