30 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

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

Help!! Transiency Rates

Do you know how to calculate the transiency rate for your school? Please email principal@deanwell.school.nz if you know the magic formula.

Rant!! Government Blunder?

Our school was contacted by the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment in August, informing us that our classroom Soundfield systems are now operating on an illegal frequency range and we will have to replace them.

On Friday I was informed that the hand held microphones we use in our hall also operate on an illegal frequency… and it will cost $590 per unit to replace them! When we purchased them, they were operating on a legal frequency!!

Who changed the rules? My suspicion is that the Government sold the frequencies…

The cost to our school:

Replace 20 Soundfield systems - $20,000 plus installation costs
Replace three handheld microphones and receivers - $1,800

This issues impacts on school, churches… and a huge number of other community organisations.

Who pays this cost? Who is to be held responsible?

I’m picking the Government will assign the issue to Steven Joyce. He has the magic mouth that fixes all problems. He is in charge of Novopay. And just look at what a wonderful system that continues to be, under his magic wand!!

Part-time Teaching Position

A Hamilton-based teacher leaving our school at the completion of her fixed term position at the end of this year is interested in a part-time teaching position in and around Hamilton. She is a confident, competent teacher with 3 years’ experience who works really well as part of a team. Please contact me if you have a position possibly available for her, thanks.

Rachel Allan,
Principal Te Uku School.
rachela@teuku.school.nz

Writing PD

Gaye Byers Literacy

Writing Course 18 19 20 April (first 3 days of April holidays) in Hamilton

$650 + GST per person

All refreshments provided

4 large resource books included

Enrolling Feb 2016 for new schools and catch up teachers from previous schools

Enquiries and bookings to:

Barbara Lawson
Principal
Orini Combined School
principal@orini.school.nz

Human Synergistics International Leadership Course

Dear Colleagues

We will again host the Human Synergistics International Leadership Course at Te Rapa Primary School in 2016.

It is a fantastic ‘leadership’ opportunity for aspiring future leaders in your school, and it is well suited to both middle management personnel and those unit holders who you have tasked to lead key initiatives in your school.

I did this course in 1992 as a new Principal and it proved extremely worthwhile, so I can confirm it is also well suited to those of you already in Principal positions (young and not so young !) right through to your basic scale teachers looking to the future, or members of your support staff too.

Please look to put some funding away in your 2016 budget and identify 1 or 2 staff from your school who you feel would benefit.

This is just another way that you can be seen to develop and grow existing staff for future leadership positions in your schools, and therefore show a commitment to building leadership capacity within the education sector.

Regards

Vaughan Franklin – Principal
Te Rapa Primary School

Human Synergistics International: Unique leadership opportunity- 2016

A two day professional development programme

“Why do I regularly send our leaders and aspiring leaders from Melville Primary School?

As a senior teacher and then a deputy principal I attended these workshops and thought them really beneficial in getting to know what I thought I was like… This insight then gave me the clear direction of where I could improve in my own leadership and how I could develop skills and strategies when supporting others particularly with challenge and change…”

Principal Melville Primary School, Hamilton- Dianne Pollard-Williams

“I participated in the Human Synergistics Leadership programme as a young teacher about 20 years ago. I have been a principal for 11 years and every teacher who has had an opportunity to move into a leadership role in my school has been invited to participate in the programme... This is because it offers all participants a useful and informative snapshot of their individual leadership skills and attributes regardless of experience and is a great tool for planning their next steps in the leadership journey…”

Principal Peachgrove Intermediate School, Hamilton- Louisa Barham

“This is a fantastic course for any school staff involved in leadership or for your senior scale A staff who are looking for a leadership opportunity now or in the future. I did it as a teaching principal of a 3 x teacher school 20 years ago and it helped immensely. Te Rapa has continued to put 2 x staff through it each year… This is why I have continued to assist Anne with keeping it alive and running in the Waikato.”

Principal Te Rapa Primary School, Hamilton- Vaughan Franklin

Hmmm… Nanny State?

Health & Happiness – Rules for Life

And a Laugh

Teacher’s Pet – a great video…

Teacher: "Whoever answers my next question, can go home."
One boy throws his bag out the window.
Teacher: "Who just threw that?"
Boy: "Me, and I’m going home now."

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