Board of Trustees
Our School Board works very hard on behalf of the students and parents of our community to ensure that student achievement and student welfare retains a high focus across the school
2026 School Board of Trustees
Principal
Brook Murfitt
Proprietor’s Representative
Presiding Member
Scott Mellow
Proprietor’s Representative
Treasurer
Esther (Essie) Gopperth
Proprietor’s Representative
Benjamin (Rusty) Campbell
Parent Elect
Kelly Langton
Parent Elect
Frances Schumacher
Parent Elect
Vanessa Le Prou
Staff Representative
Eva Vanner
Board Secretary
Bianca Aldridge
Policies and Procedures
St Joseph’s Ōpunakē uses SchoolDocs for our Policies and Procedures. SchoolDocs manages our policies and procedures online, in a way that allows us to maintain, review and update them regularly. It ensures that our policies and procedures are up to date, that we are following Ministry of Education best-practice guidelines, and that we are meeting our reporting requirements. It is a quick, easy, user-friendly site that can be shared with parents and staff alike.
Belonging to SchoolDocs means:
- Our policies and procedures are online and accessible to the whole school community.
- The content is monitored and updated to comply with New Zealand legislation, ERO requirements, and other audits, and in response to advice sent to schools.
- The SchoolDocs review process streamlines reviewing and the advisory service helps to keep our school compliant.
- SchoolDocs content is updated every term as a result of scheduled and internal reviews.
- Printed copies of policies and procedures are available on request. The site is designed and written for online use; there are links to other pages and to online resources that won’t work in a printed version. These links are essential in showing how the policies and procedures relate to each other.
For access to our school docs go to:
Search for our school: St Joseph’s Ōpunakē
Then login using the following details:
Username: stjo
Password: unity