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Presentation at the future strategy information session (‘Zukunftsabend’) on 06.11.2014

Introduction of the Board members as well as the new principle and school management for all new parents of the DSJ

Introduction of Board Members

Ralf Franke Development and Finance Committees, Chairman of the Board Markus Gschwari Personnel (Chair person) and Development Committees, Vice Chairman of the Board Bernard Bachmann Personnel and Infrastructure Committees Holger Dix Development and Public Relation Committees Ilka Goth Personnel Committee Johannes Gutmayer Infrastructure Committee Angela Matthews Finance and Public Relation Committees Manuela Nickels Infrastructure (Chair person) and Public Relation Committees Niels Rudolph Infrastructure and Public Relation Committees Alex Schaffrath Finance Committee (Chair person) and Committee Secretary Andreas Welke Finance Committee Susanne Winter Public Relation (Chair person) and Development Committee

Introduction of School Management

Thomas Bachmeier Principal Jan van Wyk Deputy Principal Jana Stölting Pedagogic (Academic) Director Jobst Schulte-Brader General Manager Administration

What is the Board?

Representation of the members (parents) and the governing body working honorary

• Eight board meetings per year
• Eight to ten meetings of the financial, development,

infrastructure, personnel and marketing committees

• Attendance of meetings of the WDA and ZfA in Berlin
• Fortnightly meetings with the school principal
• Strategy workshop (Klausurtagung) over a weekend
• Future evening and AGM
• Other committees like “Kindergarten” extension
• Various functions at the DSJ including Bazar, Open day,

Valediction, Matric Ball, etc.

New funding structure of the ZfA (the German authority for German Schools abroad) on the basis of the new Law for schools like the DSJ as well as the associated Administrative Legislation.

Three major parts: 1) The financial support in accordance with the ‘Auslands-Schulwesen-Gesetz’. 2) The voluntary sponsorship based on the lessons given at the school. 3) The voluntary sponsorship based on the location subsidy due to social reasons.

To the first point: We are a ‘two-string-school’ with two internationally acknowledged certificates (Abitur and NSC with ‘C1’ (DSD2). This status guarantees the DSJ twelve ‘ADLK’ (teachers sponsored by the German government). Furthermore we get 50.0% of the considered lessons per week for both strings being 405 hours.

To the second aspect: Additional lessons groups being 13 with different accepted lessons per week we get sponsored with 50.0% The payment of that amount is subject to the ‘budget situation’ of the German government.

To the third point: Is also subject to any financial constraints of the German government and voluntary. The DSJ is considered at the presently highest possible level being 40.0%. This means we get from the totally accepted lessons per week being 620 hours the respective percentage multiplied by the cost of an ‘hour lesson’.

Further results: Any ADLK more than the twelve ‘granted’ ones being employed at the DSJ will have to be paid by the school at an amount determined by the ZfA and deducted from the before explained subsidy. We had this year twenty ADLK, which will have to be reduced anyhow each year by two, which means, that latest beginning of 2019 we would be at the ‘granted twelve ADLK.

Conclusion: Effectively we will get less support. In future we will get about 3,050,000.00, but eight ADLK less, which would be considering the same scale come to EUR 2,130,000.00, which is a reduction of 35.4%! In 2014 we received calculated on the amounts per ADLK roughly EUR 3,300,000.00.

What is positive? We can sign a contract for three years, which we will and which will give us a guaranteed amount to be considered in the budget as well as the strategic planning of expenditure compared to the past. We will have more freedom in determining the additional teachers from Germany besides the ‘granted ADLK’ or the focus on the ‘local market’.

Further conclusion: The school management together with the Board will (have to) develop a new personal concept under consideration to keep the pedagogic standard of the DSJ, which will take a while, as that will have at least a mid-, if not long-term influence for the DSJ.

Another aspect: In anticipation of the before presented facts the Board of the DSJ together with the School Management decided already during the strategy workshop 2012 to invest in the extension of the ‘Regentroepfchen’ facilities as well as in the Kindergarten as a total. About fourteen months took the construction of the six new classrooms was going on and last Friday the official opening ceremony took place.

Why? We can only grow our school, under consideration of further ADLK being financed by ‘Germany’, if we will succeed to have a further ‘Kombi-Zweig’ class with at least 27 children achieving the Abitur. The Kindergarten with all kids only talking the German language will prepare the ‘kids’ properly for the Primary School.

This will lead hopefully to more children being able to pass the Abitur, but also interest parents for this unique and ‘state-of-the-art’ Kindergarten. We are convinced, that our strategic decision and the fairly high investment have paved the path for a prosperous DSJ on a midterm scale.

During our strategy workshop of the Board and School Management on 18.10. and 19.10.14 we discussed the following:

Report of the school principal

Veränderungsnotwendigkeit – Veränderungskompetenz - Veränderungsbereitschaft

Zentrale Aufgaben einer guten Schule: Die Unterstützung des Lernens und der sozialen Entwicklung jedes Schülers. Neue oder veränderte Aufgaben werden von außen oder innen angestoßen

• der gefordert.

Schulentwicklung zwischen Stabilität und Veränderung

Spannungsverhältnis

Prozesse 2015 in der Planungsphase

Prozesse 2015 in der Konsolidierungsphase

Ausblick 2016

• Konzept zur Inklusion (2016)
• Interne Evaluation: Zufriedenheit

(2015/2016)

• Peer Review (2015/2016)
• BLI II Vorbereitung und Durchführung

(2016/2017)

Further tasks for the future

Further strengthening of the DAM string with the aim to make the ‘Kombizweig’ more attractive Enhancing the English Medium High School Develop the MINT section

We will again have an ‘open day’ in March 2015 and allow the interested clients to visit and experience the school in “full swing”, which would effectively cost two to three lessons. We invite all parents to participate in the life of the school and give them a warm welcome, accompanied by our prefects.

1,125 pupils (from presently about 1030) by end of January 2015 (last future evening we planned one more year)

=> increasing school fees by about MZAR 4.2 => more independence from funding from Germany => preparation for probable ADLK budgeting by ZfA

Financial forecast 2014 / 2015

2013 actuals / 2014 budget

DSJ INCOME STATEMENT

2013 2014 2014 2015

R 000's

Actual Budget Forecast Budget A B C D C / A C / B D / C

INCOME

GROSS SCHOOL FEES

49 635 57 009 56 120 62 902 13.1%

• 1.6%

12.1%

REDUCTIONS

• 10 592
• 11 512
• 11 351
• 12 251

7.2%

• 1.4%

7.9%

NET SCHOOL FEES RECEIVED

39 043 45 497 44 769 50 651 14.7%

• 1.6%

13.1%

BVA SUBSIDIES & OTHER RECEIPTS

15 476 8 666 13 833 21 798

• 10.6%

59.6% 57.6%

OTHER INCOME

2 513 1 045 1 886 1 588

• 24.9%

80.5%

• 15.8%

TOTAL INCOME

57 032 55 208 60 488 74 037 6.1% 9.6% 22.4%

EXPENSES

SALARIES & WAGES, TRAINING & RECRUITMEN

32 961 38 025 35 973 50 234 9.1%

• 5.4%

39.6%

PROPERTY AND RELATED COSTS

7 696 7 101 8 607 9 160 11.8% 21.2% 6.4%

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

12 262 10 820 9 823 12 843

• 19.9%
• 9.2%

30.7%

TEACHING AIDS & GENERAL EXPENSES

2 745 2 965 2 981 2 824 8.6% 0.5%

• 5.3%

TOTAL EXPENSES

55 664 58 911 57 384 75 061 3.1%

• 2.6%

30.8%

PERIOD NET SURPLUS /(DEFICIT)

1 368

• 3 703

3 104

• 1 024

% increases / decreases

2014 forecasts

DSJ INCOME STATEMENT

2013 2014 2014 2015

R 000's

Actual Budget Forecast Budget A B C D C / A C / B D / C

INCOME

GROSS SCHOOL FEES

49 635 57 009 56 120 62 902 13.1%

• 1.6%

12.1%

REDUCTIONS

• 10 592
• 11 512
• 11 351
• 12 251

7.2%

• 1.4%

7.9%

NET SCHOOL FEES RECEIVED

39 043 45 497 44 769 50 651 14.7%

• 1.6%

13.1%

BVA SUBSIDIES & OTHER RECEIPTS

15 476 8 666 13 833 21 798

• 10.6%

59.6% 57.6%

OTHER INCOME

2 513 1 045 1 886 1 588

• 24.9%

80.5%

• 15.8%

TOTAL INCOME

57 032 55 208 60 488 74 037 6.1% 9.6% 22.4%

EXPENSES

SALARIES & WAGES, TRAINING & RECRUITMEN

32 961 38 025 35 973 50 234 9.1%

• 5.4%

39.6%

PROPERTY AND RELATED COSTS

7 696 7 101 8 607 9 160 11.8% 21.2% 6.4%

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

12 262 10 820 9 823 12 843

• 19.9%
• 9.2%

30.7%

TEACHING AIDS & GENERAL EXPENSES

2 745 2 965 2 981 2 824 8.6% 0.5%

• 5.3%

TOTAL EXPENSES

55 664 58 911 57 384 75 061 3.1%

• 2.6%

30.8%

PERIOD NET SURPLUS /(DEFICIT)

1 368

• 3 703

3 104

• 1 024

% increases / decreases

2014 forecasts (cont.)

DSJ INCOME STATEMENT

2013 2014 2014 2015

R 000's

Actual Budget Forecast Budget A B C D C / A C / B D / C

INCOME

GROSS SCHOOL FEES

49 635 57 009 56 120 62 902 13.1%

• 1.6%

12.1%

REDUCTIONS

• 10 592
• 11 512
• 11 351
• 12 251

7.2%

• 1.4%

7.9%

NET SCHOOL FEES RECEIVED

39 043 45 497 44 769 50 651 14.7%

• 1.6%

13.1%

BVA SUBSIDIES & OTHER RECEIPTS

15 476 8 666 13 833 21 798

• 10.6%

59.6% 57.6%

OTHER INCOME

2 513 1 045 1 886 1 588

• 24.9%

80.5%

• 15.8%

TOTAL INCOME

57 032 55 208 60 488 74 037 6.1% 9.6% 22.4%

EXPENSES

SALARIES & WAGES, TRAINING & RECRUITMEN

32 961 38 025 35 973 50 234 9.1%

• 5.4%

39.6%

PROPERTY AND RELATED COSTS

7 696 7 101 8 607 9 160 11.8% 21.2% 6.4%

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

12 262 10 820 9 823 12 843

• 19.9%
• 9.2%

30.7%

TEACHING AIDS & GENERAL EXPENSES

2 745 2 965 2 981 2 824 8.6% 0.5%

• 5.3%

TOTAL EXPENSES

55 664 58 911 57 384 75 061 3.1%

• 2.6%

30.8%

PERIOD NET SURPLUS /(DEFICIT)

1 368

• 3 703

3 104

• 1 024

% increases / decreases

2015 budget

DSJ INCOME STATEMENT

2013 2014 2014 2015

R 000's

Actual Budget Forecast Budget A B C D C / A C / B D / C

INCOME

GROSS SCHOOL FEES

49 635 57 009 56 120 62 902 13.1%

• 1.6%

12.1%

REDUCTIONS

• 10 592
• 11 512
• 11 351
• 12 251

7.2%

• 1.4%

7.9%

NET SCHOOL FEES RECEIVED

39 043 45 497 44 769 50 651 14.7%

• 1.6%

13.1%

BVA SUBSIDIES & OTHER RECEIPTS

15 476 8 666 13 833 21 798

• 10.6%

59.6% 57.6%

OTHER INCOME

2 513 1 045 1 886 1 588

• 24.9%

80.5%

• 15.8%

TOTAL INCOME

57 032 55 208 60 488 74 037 6.1% 9.6% 22.4%

EXPENSES

SALARIES & WAGES, TRAINING & RECRUITMEN

32 961 38 025 35 973 50 234 9.1%

• 5.4%

39.6%

PROPERTY AND RELATED COSTS

7 696 7 101 8 607 9 160 11.8% 21.2% 6.4%

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

12 262 10 820 9 823 12 843

• 19.9%
• 9.2%

30.7%

TEACHING AIDS & GENERAL EXPENSES

2 745 2 965 2 981 2 824 8.6% 0.5%

• 5.3%

TOTAL EXPENSES

55 664 58 911 57 384 75 061 3.1%

• 2.6%

30.8%

PERIOD NET SURPLUS /(DEFICIT)

1 368

• 3 703

3 104

• 1 024

% increases / decreases

Drivers

• Learner numbers
• 2015 Budget: 1078 (2014 Forecast: 1 030)
• Increases: High School from 63 to 87,

Regenbogen Kids 257 to 276 (2013: 213)

Drivers (cont.)

• Learner numbers
• 2015 subsidy
• 2014 actual: R13.8 million (2014 budget: R8.7

million)

• 2015 budget: R21.8 million

Drivers (cont.)

• Learner numbers
• 2015 subsidy
• 2015 salaries & wages
• 2014 forecast: R36 million (2014 budget: R38

million)

• 2015 budget: R50.2 million (includes 4 ADLK

teachers)

Drivers (cont.)

• Learner numbers
• 2015 subsidy
• 2015 salaries & wages
• 2015 school fee increase: 6.5%
• 2014: 7.5%

What else will be on in the near future?

Our school will celebrate next year the 125 year anniversary (being the oldest still existing private school in Johannesburg)

There will be week of special events from 11.09.15 to 18.09.15 with further details to be published in due course

The logo

The 125 year anniversary of the DSJ affords us with the unique opportunity to present the school to a non-traditional audience, whilst simultaneously, enabling us to re-articulate and re-affirm

• ur brand positioning to our main

stakeholders.

What are our main concerns?

Outstanding school fees!

In future we will be stricter in collecting fees, especially those effecting other

• parents. Non-payment of fees may and

will result in the suspension of the respective pupil(s)

We are all, parents and teachers, acting every day too less in conjunction with the Vision and Mission of the DSJ

„The Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg” offers young people superior and steadfast preparation for the complex challenges of our global world“ Vision

Mission At the “Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg” we

 have continually offered since 1890 co educational teaching of the highest standards leading to excellent final results in national, German and international examinations such as the South African National Senior Certificate, the German International Abitur and a German Language Diploma;

Mission (2)

 welcome all young people, including non-German speakers, who are interested in and would like to learn more about the German language and culture;  educate young people to become self-confident, independent personalities, with critical thinking skill that encourage personal and social responsibilities;

Mission (3)

 promote academic competence and the development of the individual personality of each learner;  strive to strengthen the inter-cultural sensitivities of

• ur learners by cultivating respect for their own

culture and appreciation of other cultures.

We ask all interested persons to have a look to our web page to view the developed detailed model called the „Leitbild“ describing the definition of the DSJ as a special school within the South African environment based on certain German principles.

As a closure we again emphasize on these aspects:

A “service mentality” will determine any action from the school, logically within the set standards, rules and procedures. It is mandatory to increase the number of pupils at our school in order to further improve the financial situation of the DSJ.

An integrated role should be played by the parents, who should support the activities to get more pupils and funds for our school, logically best by talking positively about the DSJ to the communities ‘outside’, while in case of problems solving those exclusively ‘internally’.

We also naturally count on all teachers and administrative staff for their continous commitment, supporting the ‘service mentality’ to lay an even better foundation for a prosperous future of

• ur school.

Last but definitely not least we also thank the school management, Mr. Schreiner,

• Mr. Bachmeier, Mr. van Wyk, Mrs.

Stoelting and Mr. Schulte-Brader, for the very cooperative interaction with the Board and the mutual preparation

• f the DSJ for the future

The future evening next year is planned for 05.11.2015

Now we invite you for a small snack and a drink as well as one-to-one talks with the members of the Board, School management and the teachers being present this evening. We thank you all for your presence this evening.