The Board is made up of parent representatives, an elected staff member and the Principal, all working together to govern our school. Members are elected for a three-year term.
Meetings of the Board are public meetings and the 2026 dates are listed below.
26th February, 26th March, 21st May, 18th June, 30th July, 27th August, 24th September, 22nd October, 26th November
Meetings are at 6.30pm in the School Staffroom.
Current Board
Michael Corbett - Presiding Member
Sarah Lewis
Eric Wei
Lisa Packer
Sunny Wu
Charlotte Marychurch (Staff)
Teresa Burn (Principal)
Contacting the board
If you would like to raise a concern or make a complaint, please ensure that you have checked the complaints policy.
You can contact the board in writing at the following address;
Presiding Member
Browns Bay School Board
Browns Bay School
6 Masterton Road
Browns Bay
Auckland 0630
Alternatively, you can email bbs@brownsbay.school.nz
Concerns and Complaints Policy - School Policies page
Browns Bay School Board Minutes
Board Minutes - September 2025
Strategic Plan
The Browns Bay School’s Strategic Plan is a key planning document that sets out the school’s objectives and targets for the year.
The Strategic Plan is put in place at the start of the school year, so that it can then be effective in setting teaching and learning programmes and guiding the activities of our school.
The document below contains our:
Strategic Plan that outlines the Goals for 2024 and 2025.
Annual Plan that expands on the 2025 goals.
Statement of Variances that outlines our educational goals for the year.
Please click on this link to download a copy of our 2024 Annual Report.
2023-2025 Strategic Plan
ERO Report
Over the past year, Browns Bay School has been working alongside the Education Review Office in a review of the school or Te Ara Huarau.
Te Ara Huarau is the evaluation approach that the Education Review Office (ERO) is using in our school. This a developmental approach to evaluation where ERO and our school work together over time rather than one-off reviews that happened previously.
ERO maintains a regular review programme to evaluate and report on the education and care of young people in the schools. Our school worked alongside ERO to write our Profile Report. This type of report will only happen once as part of our initial engagement with Te Ara Huarau. The profile report reflects our strategic goals and a shared evaluation focus of one or more areas that are important to us as we work together to improve outcomes for all our learners. ERO, like us, has a strong focus on equity and excellence. Future reporting will show our progress and achievement toward meeting the goals we have set. Public reports like the Profile Report are published on ERO's website.
The Reports published are shown below. The Board Assurance Report and Provision for International Students report show how we are meeting regulatory and legislative requirements.
Latest ERO Reports
Click here: Browns Bay School | Education Review Office (ero.govt.nz)
Attendance Monitoring
Strategic Priorities
Regular school attendance is important for students to achieve their educational potential. The government's target is that 80% of students will be regularly attending school by 2030.
Our school currently has 73% regular attendance and a target of lifting regular attendance to 80% by the end of 2026.
Board Responsibilities
The board is responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that the school’s students attend the school when it is open for instruction.
The board will comply with the provisions in the legislation in relation to student attendance by:
* having a commitment to support students' return to regular attendance
* having processes and procedures in place to support a Stepped Attendance Response to student absence that uses data-based thresholds to identify students
* recording all absences and responding accordingly
* having an effective method in place for identifying and monitoring student absence, including identifying patterns and barriers to student attendance
* publishing this attendance management plan on the school’s website.