Over the next few months, Newington is undertaking a whole College Research Project. With the assistance of the Macquarie Marketing Group ✦ Education (MMG✦Education) custom surveys will be emailed via the College’s contact lists to Old Boys, current parents, current staff and all boys of the College from Years 5-12. These lists provide just over 11,000 potential respondents.

This is the first time a study of this size has been undertaken to investigate the levels of satisfaction and performance of the College. Importantly, we are doing this from the perspective of all of its stakeholders and at the one time. This 2017 snapshot is also seeking to establish levels of interest from the whole College Community for possible future directions—up to five years hence. The College Council and Senior Staff are very keen that the needs, expectations and opinions of as many members of the Newington Community inform the operational and strategic decisions they take now, and in the near future.

The survey for Old Boys is the first of the four to be sent and is a strictly confidential, online instrument. It will be sent directly from MMG✦Education to all email addresses currently in our database, and returned only to them. Newington will not see individual surveys and the results will only be provided to us as aggregated data.

MMG✦Education works with many independent schools in Australia in researching their performance. This means that they will be able to provide benchmarks for Newington’s performance against the experience and perceptions of many similar schools.

The survey for Old Boys will be sent in the week of 5 June 2017. If you do not wish to receive the invitation to complete the survey please email “NO SURVEY” to ONU Alumni Officer Ms Jennifer Chapman If you have any queries about the survey, please email or telephone Director of Community and Development Mr Rod Bosman (ON 1978), who will be happy to help you, T: +61 2 9568 9540.

We would like to sincerely thank you in advance should you choose to participate. Your input will be most valuable to the College and is greatly appreciated.