31 October 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

Help! PTA Fundraising

A school is looking for PTA Fundraising information – guidelines, responsibilities, etc. If you have anything relevant, please email to principal@deanwell.school.nz and I will pass it on.

WPA Dates

WPA Dinner

Date: November 18th
Venue: Verandah Caf̩ and Function Centre РHamilton Lake
Cost: Principals free. Partners $30.

Registrations for the dinner are open:

Please note: if you register for the dinner and do not attend, your school will be invoiced for the cost of the dinner because the WPA still has to pay for all those registered. So there.

Term 4 Catch Up Day - Cheryl Doig

Thursday November 3

Future focused schools: What and How?

Cheryl will take us on a quick romp into the world of exponential technologies and the global changing landscape; explore the implications for schools and leadership; and dig deeper into the trend towards collaboration. During all three sessions there will be a mix of 'deep dives', interaction with peers and development of strategies for your unique environment. No matter what sort of school setting you are in, you will be challenged and encouraged to move ideas to action.

9.10 - 10.10 An Outwards Mindset: Global Trends

Key drivers of change are forcing us to deconstruct our industrial model of education and remix it to meet the needs for a vastly different world. In this session Cheryl will explore the significant changes affecting the world, including the impact of Exponential Technologies. Are you personally and professionally aware of these? What are the implications for learners?

11.00 - 12.00 Leadership of a Learning Ecosystem

Leaders of the future will need to remix their capabilities, pivot like never before and embrace new relationships. We will explore the learning ecosystem of schooling and what this means for you as a leader of change in an increasingly complex world. What capabilities need to be developed, strengthened and abandoned? What about those who will be the leaders after you? Will your legacy be a liability or a springboard?

2.00 - 3.00 Leading Collaboration: What Really Matters

In the final session of the day we will focus on collaboration as one of the key ingredients of a learning ecosystem. What are the positives and pitfalls for schools, clusters and CoLs. Why might we collaborate and when? What are examples of successful collaboration in education and business? Where to next?

CORE Breakfast

The next CORE Breakfast is on 10 November with Janelle Riki-Waaka presenting a seminar and workshop session on Innovative Pathways for Māori achieving educational success as Māori.

The focus of this breakfast seminar will explore innovative ways that schools can create environments to empower Māori students and raise achievement for all students in the process. Janelle will discuss several avenues of support for school leaders and teachers to enhance their culturally responsive practices, and strengthen their relationships with Māori students and their whānau.

During the workshop, participants will be supported to develop a Responsiveness Plan for their schools aimed at empowering all learners and their whānau to engage with their school and feel empowered in all aspects of their achievement. We will also explore how schools can form stronger connections with students and their whānau through developing 'flipped' curriculum support and access to learning support outside of school hours.

Jo Wilson
Senior Consultant
CORE Education Ltd M: 021 2780768 T: jmw58

NZEI – Targeted Funding

I have attached some really important information with regard to NZEI that I would like to share with principals, particularly giving some feedback about targeted funding.

Kind regards
Jackie Nicholl
Principal Support Officer
Field Officer
NZEI Te Riu Roa
0800 693 443

Hmmm…

Hauora… Health & Happiness

Have you contacted a near-by Principal this term? Give them a ring or pop in for a cup of coffee. Chat about COLs, gardening, the V8s… but be there for each other.

You can make a difference.

Rant – Housing

Three of our Deanwell families have been placed in motels by Housing Corp… at a cost of between $1,200 and $1,400 per week. And there is not housing crisis in the Waikato???

As always, the polices of this Government benefit the well-off and big corporations, and impact severely on those at the poverty end of the spectrum.

Leadership…

A Thought…

A Laugh

Some of the Most Smartass Things To Ever Happen

FOR ALL YOU LEXOPHILES (lovers of words)

• A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
• What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway.)
• Time flies like an arrow -- Fruit flies like a banana.
• A backward poet writes inverse.
• In a democracy, it's your vote that counts; In feudalism, it's your count that votes.
• If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
• With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
• Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.
• When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
• The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
• A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blown apart.
• You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
• He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
• A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.
• A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
• He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
• The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
• Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
• When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
• Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
• Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
• Acupuncture is a jab well done.
• Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.

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