Dubbo College High School has had a long history of strong Parent and Citizens Committees from each of its three campuses: Delroy, South and Senior. The P&C Committees aim to provide a platform to enable parents, citizens, students and teaching staff to work and plan in partnership.

The P&Cs contribute significantly to the life of the College and facilitates development and improvement to achieve the best possible outcome for students. One of the biggest challenges that has faced and will continue to face the P&C Committees is retaining volunteers and adequate membership numbers, whilst ensuring the Committee meetings are achieving good outcomes and influencing the schools in the best way possible.

This year, in consultation with the school community, the College’s three P&C Committees have combined to a single P&C across the college, with one President, one Treasurer, one Secretary, and three Vice-Presidents (one for each campus), with three formal subcommittees. This amalgamation will encourage the shared focus of parents and citizens across the College as well as allowing a flexible time and load commitment from members.

The Dubbo College P&C encourages all interested parties to participate in the P&C to discuss and plan how best the Committee can aid the college’s current and future needs. It is vital to bring together the community of parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers and staff as well members of the local public to work together to provide opportunities for the benefit of our students.

The P&C meetings provide a forum which enables parents to voice their opinions, discuss options and initiate change. This enables the college to obtain input into the policies and procedures used to effectively run the college. The meetings held are informative and include a report from each campus principal.

In addition, guest presentations are also conducted on issues that are of interest and concern to parents. Dubbo College P&C meets the 3rd Monday of the month at 6pm at Dubbo College Senior Campus Library.

Furthermore, the campus P&Cs provide supplementary funds for a variety of resources for the College. These include school excursions, sports equipment, computers and technology, literacy and numeracy resources, signage, and support for students attending representative activities.

Dubbo College P&C welcomes everyone to the next meeting on Monday, June 17, at Senior Campus.