Investigation and Analysis
Investigation questions for Mr. Craig Macpherson
How would you describe your position at King's?
I am the Housemaster of Peart house which means each day I have pastoral care of approx. 125 and in charge of a 9 house staff as well as a Physical Education teacher.
What tasks are you responsible for within the house environment?
The Spiritual, Academic, Cultural, Sporting involvement and pastoral care of Peartonians as well as overseeing the punishment system.
How are these tasks currently being handled?
With a staff of 9 Staff members (tutors), each of the tutors is responsible for approx. 12/13 tutees for the spiritual, academic, cultural, sporting involvement and pastoral care of their charges with the overall responsibility resting with the Housemaster.
Who else is involved?
The 9 Tutors plus 10 prefects.
What are these people responsible for?
They’re responsible for the day to day running of the house, Mentoring the younger groups and preparing the house for any and all interhouse activities and discipline.
How efficient is the current system?
Efficient enough for the most part but is heavily dependent on the Prefect/Year 13 body.
Are these tasks computer based at any point?
Some of them are but the fatigue system is hand written.
How are these tasks carried out?
The Fatigues are written into the Fats book and published onto a board on Thursday mornings.
What information is inputted?
The Name of the Student, Misdemeanor and Prefect Issuing.
How is this information outputted?
they’re published onto a board each thursday morning for the house to see.
Would you like this system computerized?
The Fat System, Yes.
What information is to be inputted into the new system?
Same as the old system as well as the year group.
How many people are in this house?
approx. 125 students and 10 staff members.
how often are fatigues run?
They’re run each friday afternoon for a few hours, but sometimes run every second week if house activites intervene with several students commitment to attend.
How many people are on each fatigue per week?
approx. 5 - 10 on average but can be as few as 3 and as many as 20.
Who Issues these fatigues?
The House Prefects as well as the Staff members and the Housemaster.
How would you want this information accessed?
A computer program where you can simply select the year, student, and prefect issuing and enter the reason. I would store the Program on my PC or on one of the prefects in charge of Administrations’ laptops so the list can be printed out easily.
Why would you want this information computerized?
To see who is getting fats regularly as well as which prefects are issuing the fats.
Who would you want to access this information?
Mainly the Prefects but also myself so I can oversee the Fatigues.
What Operating System will the program need to be run on (Windows, Mac)?
The Majority of the school runs on Mac.
