New Principal Recruitment - Parent / Guardian Input

Thursday 6th March 2025

The College School Board of John McGlashan College is currently overseeing the recruitment and selection process for the College’s new Principal and is seeking your input to assist the Board with this.


Kia ora,

The College School Board of John McGlashan College is currently overseeing the recruitment and selection process for the College’s new Principal and is seeking your input to assist the Board with this.

The purpose of this survey is to ask you as parents/guardians to identify the skills, capabilities and personal attributes the new Principal needs to possess, to successfully meet future challenges and opportunities.

While you are encouraged to participate in the survey, participation is entirely voluntary. Andrea Bankier, Senior Consultant at Sheffield South Island has been engaged to partner with our college on the recruitment for this role. Key trends and themes will be reported back to the College

School Board in a written document after the data has been collated and analysed. Please be assured that individual responses and comments are not identified, they will remain confidential, however they are reported verbatim.

If you would like to take part, please click on this link to the online survey:

Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LKPKZ69

(if this doesn’t work for you, an alternative method is to copy and paste this address into your web browser).

If you have any trouble completing the survey please contact Jane Cotter 03 353 4357 from Sheffield who will assist you.

The deadline for completion of the survey is 5.00 pm on 17 March so please complete the survey at your earliest convenience.

Thank you for your participation in this very important process.

Kind regards/Kā mihi nui,

Geoff Burns

Presiding Member, College School Board