Dear Community,
The WIS Annual General Meeting (AGM) serves as the annual opportunity for WIS Members to receive and approve the financials and audit, appoint auditors, elect Board members, confirm Board appointments, and receive and discuss reports from the Board Chair, Board Treasurer and Educational Director. This year’s AGM takes place from 6:00 pm in the WIS Auditorium on Wednesday 31 January 2024. You will have received the notification of the AGM and the draft agenda and Articles in an email on 9th January. Additional supporting documentation for the AGM will be shared one week in advance. Please consider attending this important event.
Although there are no Board of Directors vacancies up for election at this year's AGM, WIS Members will be asked to approve a revised version of the Articles of Association. These articles have been revised to provide greater clarity and continuity of governance for Windhoek International School.
At this year’s AGM, we will also receive a report from our strategic planning consultant Mr Kevin Bartlett. As a former WIS Director and a leading figure within international education, Mr Bartlett is uniquely suited to guide our school through this next Strategic Planning Process. As our SOAR Goals of 2022-23 come to a successful conclusion, we will invite you to envision the future of WIS.
Whereas the current strategic plan and 2-year SOAR Goals were designed for maintaining and incrementally improving our school, we want this next strategic plan to focus on those things that will transform our learning community to become what we know and envision that we can be. All stakeholders will be receiving a survey link just following the 31 January AGM. In February, a summary of these results will be shared with the community. In March, a draft strategic plan will be shared with the community for feedback. In April, this plan will be aligned to the school's budget, and in May the Board of Directors will then approve our new 5-year WIS Strategic Plan.
As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once put it, A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
We need to plan for impact. So please begin considering… what do you want our school to be by 2029?
Sincerely,
Ethan van Drunen
Director
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