9 November 2015

Newsletter Articles

Principals supporting Principals… Principals supporting Principles!

Kia Ora

This week’s email update…..

Please note the close off date for having something included in the Monday Mailing is 3:00 PM on the preceding Thursday.

Kind regards

Pat

WPA Dates

	November	20	Friday	WPA Principals Dinner 2015
2016	April	9	Saturday	Road Trip – Singapore April 9 -15 2016
	May	31	Tuesday	NZPF – APPA Conference – Auckland May 31 – June 3 2016
	November	18		WPA Dinner
CatchUp Days 2016
	March	17	Thursday	Catchup Day – Neil O’Reilly. Flexible Learning Spaces.
	July	6	Wednesday	Catchup Day - Kath Murdoch. Inquiry Learning.
	September	7	Wednesday	Catchup Day - Nigel Latta
	November	3	TBA	Catchup Day Staffing and budgeting for following year.

Other Dates

July

6-8

NZEI Rural & Teaching Principals Conference, Tauranga

WPA Principals Dinner

The WPA Principals dinner is on the evening of Friday November 20.

Venue:	Waikato Stadium	Gate 5, Seddon Road, Whitiora, Hamilton
Time:	6:30 PM	Drinks at bar – complimentary (drink enough and they will tell you how nice you look!!). After 7:30 PM, you buy your own drinks at the bar.
	7:15 PM	Dinner served - with complimentary wine on the tables
	8:30 PM	Band starts playing

Principals are free. It is $60 for partners.

Last day for booking is 15th November - no bookings taken after that date as numbers will have been confirmed.

Principal Wanted - Korakonui School

Korakonui School Board of Trustees are in the process of recruiting a new Principal. Please view the video and share with anyone who you believe may be interested. Thanks for your support. Click or copy the link below to view

Carla McNeil
Principal
Korakonui School

Retiring Principals

If you know of a Principal who is retiring, please email our WPA President John Coulam with their name and retirement date. principal@marian.school.nz

Māori Cultural Responsiveness

The WPA is looking for school leaders who are confident to welcome and thank visitors in te reo, lead karakia and waiata, and advise the executive on matters of tikanga. If this is you – or if you know of someone who would be competent and comfortable in this role, please contact the WPA chairperson John Coulam at principal@marian.school.nz.

sKids – FoodStorm

sKids have introduced for next year a cooking programme called the FoodStorm. Please refer to the attached document.

Chris Bartels
Director

sKids - Safe Kids in Daily Supervision Ltd
www.facebook.co.nz/skidsnewzealand
www.skids.co.nz
Tel: (09) 576-6602
Fax: (09) 576-9902
Mob: 021-974-221

Asia NZ Foundation – Singapore Trip for Teachers

Our fully funded* teachers trip to Singapore is now up on our website with applications closing on Friday 4 March 2016. *Return airfares and all in-country costs (accommodation, travel and food) covered.

Jeff Johnstone
Education Director
DDI 64 4 815 8432 M 64 21 122 2468
E jjohnstone@asianz.org.nz W asianz.org.nz

Level 6, DLA Piper Tower, 205 Queen Street
PO Box 105-134, Auckland 1143, New Zealand

Education Act – You need to act!!

Have a look at the attached document, keep an eye on the media, and attend any meetings run the Ministry of Education or NZSTA (who are the Government’s mouthpiece to Boards of Trustees).

And then respond… to the Government, to your community (very important), and to the WPA.

There are issues that should be causing you concern.

Ministry of Education: Property

At the last Property Sector Forum we talked about setting up four pilots to explore maximising 5YA capital expenditure. An article on this is in the latest Bulletin to Schools, it has a link to a more detailed explanation on our web page and an application form. Attached is a copy of these three documents.

Would you please circulate these attached documents to all principals in your local association so they can consider if they wish to participate in one of the pilots.

Please note the deadline for applying is 18 December 2016.

Regards

Rita Sweetapple | Acting Regional Property Manager - Central North
DDI +64 6 833 6736 Ext 66736 | Mobile +64 27 7022 865
8a Lever Street, Napier

Hmmm…

Health & Happiness: Stranger Danger

Reading – Feedback

7 Best Practices for Giving Student Feedback

A Thought – Impressions

And a Laugh

Please support our WPA Business Partners

BUSINESS PARTNER	CONTACT	EMAIL	TEL NO.
Gold
ASB	Phillipa Bennyworth	Phillipa.Bennyworth@asb.co.nz	021 243 3316
Furnware	Richard Jenkins	richardj@furnware.co.nz	021 544 575
Konica Minolta	Jemima Brindle	Jemima.Brindle@konicaminolta.co.nz	021 760 478
Autex	Jeremy Robertshaw	jrobertshaw@autex.co.nz	021 669 313
Silver
Kukri	Mark McConnell	mark@kukri.co.nz	021 781 122
Sitech	Phil Mellar	phil@sitech.co.nz	0800 100 607
Footsteps	Stephen Evans	stephen@footsteps.com.au	0800 66 66 88
TTS	Wade Charman	wade.charman@tts.co.nz	07 839 7129
CORE Education Ltd.	Jo Wilson	jo.wilson@core-ed.org	021 2780768
Institute of Professional Learning	Jan Martin	jmartin@waikato.ac.nz	027 286 1114
Bronze
Photolife	Bob Bradley	bobb@photolife.co.nz	021 929 584
Total Education	Neil Ferguson	neil@totaleducation.co.nz	06 843 1300
Reharvest	Reubin Maindonald	reuben@reharvest.co.nz	09 299 3999
Programmed	Kevin Bird	Kevin.Bird@programmed.co.nz;	07 849 7100
Accounting	Peter Granville	peter@pmgranville.co.nz	07 856 1400
Skids	Chris Bartels	chris@skids.co.nz	09 576 6602
Musac	Geoff Flett	Geoff.Flett@musac.co.nz	021 973 143
Playco	Thomas Patterson	Thomas@playco.co.nz	021 287 5638
Class Cover	Peter Carpenter	peter.carpenter@classcover.com.au	0800 600 102
Schoolzine	Dion Guthrie	dion.guthrie@schoolzine.com.au	07 5414 2362
Crest Clean	Nivitesh Kumar	nivitesh@crestclean.co.nz	027 555 2144