7 June 2016

Newsletter Articles

Principals supporting Principals… Principals supporting Principles!

Kia Ora

Please find this week’s Monday Mailing below.

You can access all Monday Mailings by clicking here or going to http://www.wpa.ac.nz/1/newsletter_sets/1-monday-mailing/years/2016 in your web browser.

Kind regards
Pat

WPA Dates

Other Dates

Asia NZ

School Leaders Professional Development

10am – 12pm Wednesday 15 June 2016
Endeavour Primary School

Principals, senior managers and lead teachers

Find out more about the importance of Asia to your students, review your school and develop an action plan.

Free event.

Experience Asia Evening

6pm – 8pm Thursday 16 June 2016
Endeavour Primary School

Principals, senior managers and lead teachers

Experience a range of cultural activities that your students could experience at your school. Find out about available funding.

Here’s a short video of an event we held in Wellington recently -

Free event.

Please let me know if you have any queries.

Many thanks
Jeff Johnstone
Director Education
Director Auckland Office
DDI 64 4 815 8432 M 64 21 122 2468
E jjohnstone@asianz.org.nz W www.asianz.org.nz
Level 6, DLA Piper Tower, 205 Queen Street
PO Box 105-134, Auckland 1143, New Zealand

Working Memory - Workshop

Kia ora

We are well underway now at our new specialist education centre in Te Awamutu. We have 5 educators who are trained in a teaching approach (not a programme) to specifically help dyslexic learners and we have over 80 students enrolled for support. These children come for sessions during or after school mostly once per week and we also have 10 students who come for a one day programme on a Friday where they have two specialist teachers for the day.

It is a real privilege to be working with such a dedicated team, who are collaborating to develop a way forward for these learners, and to also be focussing on a very specific area as opposed to the raft of things we focus on as a Principal.

We are hosting our first workshop in the school holidays in Te Awamutu.

Kind regards
Carla McNeil
Director Learning Matters
Consultant and Specialist Educator
562 Bank Street Te Awamutu
0275558693

Chiefs Rugby Opportunity

We are running a joint competition with the Chiefs Rugby Club and sponsoring a Chiefs rugby training/coaching session for one lucky Waikato Primary School.

It’s a great way to get the players into the local schools and a nice and fun way for us to give back to the community.

We ran this last year and the winning school had a great afternoon.

The link for the competition to include is here:

Jennifer Rea
Marketing Manager | Ingham Hyundai
454 Te Rapa Road, PO Box 1255, Hamilton, 3240
T: 07 846 8920 | DDI: 07 846 8968 | M: 022 101 4616
E: jennifer.rea@inghamhyundai.co.nz

NZEI Principal Matters

Remember the rural and teaching principals conference is only 4 weeks away, register now. It's a great opportunity to network with colleges with similar needs and challenges in the rural sector. Those from larger school wishing to attend there will be a range of insightful speakers, school visits and workshops on topical information to principals currently such as health and safety, work place stress and others.

Regards,

Scott Wilson
Principal Puahue School
www.puahue.school.nz
07 872 1838
021 2149336

Rant

Retiring Principals

Do you know of any Principals retiring in terms 1 or 2? Please email their names to principal@deanwell.school.nz .

Hmmm…Success

Hauora… Health & Happiness

A Reading… 5 Highly Effective Teaching Practices

Leadership… Hattie

A Thought… Stupid People

A Laugh

A kid gave his teacher a blank piece of paper.
Teacher: "What is this?"
Kid: "It's a drawing of a cow eating grass."
"Where's the grass?"
"The cow ate all of it."
"Then, where's the cow?"
"It left because there was no more grass."

She claims we met at the vegetarian club, but I’d never seen herbivore.

A man rushed into a busy doctor's office and shouted, "Doctor! I think I'm shrinking!"

The doctor calmly responded, "Now, settle down. You'll just have to be a little patient."

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