7 November 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

Maihihi School

Great to see a Waikato School featuring very positively in the media… have a look at this - click here .

WPA Dates

WPA Dinner

Date: November 18th
Venue: Verandah Café and Function Centre – Hamilton Lake
Cost: Principals free. Partners $30.

Registrations for the dinner are open: click here or go to http://www.wpa.ac.nz/1/online_stores/36-2016-wpa-dinner/categories/38-wpa-end-of-year-christmas-dinner.

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.

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

New Bilingual Resources

User-friendly for teachers, engaging for students

Check out this week’s Education Gazette Focus for information about a new series of bilingual resources from two passionate advocates for te reo Maōri in English-medium schools. Arahia Books will help teachers to meet the requirements of PTC 10 – working in a bicultural context, by incorporating Māori language and tikanga. This new bilingual series also contributes to one of the MoE’s four national priorities – te reo matatini – about reading, writing and speaking.

Arahia Books will publish two resource packs each term in 2017. Order now for delivery of your Term 1 resource packs in January and payment in February.

Sharon Holt

Waikato Literacy Association - Literacy Roadshow

The Waikato Literacy Association are hosting a Literacy Roadshow next year with our first day in Hamilton.

Hamilton Saturday 30th September 2017
Speakers: Ralph Fletcher | ralphfletcher.com
Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey
sheenacameron.co.nz | louisedempsey.wordpress.com

Find us on Facebook: Powerofwords2017
Email: powerofwords2017@gmail.com

Kind regards,

Sandra Neil
Waikato Literacy Association (Hillcrest Normal School)

Hmmm…

Hauora… Health & Happiness

There’s a better way to write your to-do lists…

Rapture!

… an opportunity to focus on the positives of leadership, schooling…

1. In the past week I have read two positive news pieces on the Stuff website – an article about the Hamilton North COL and the letter sent by the Principal at Maihihi School to an autistic student. You have a role in this. Send positive messages to the Waikato Times! One in ten could be published.
2. Over the past three months I have had contact with two Ministry of Education Senior Advisors. Both of them have been professional, positive, and very helpful – a pleasure to work with.

… and Rant – Success for Children

I received an email last week with the title Guidance for New Zealand Schools on Behaviour Management to Minimise Physical Restraint. I agree with the tone of the email: children should not be locked away as a means of managing them.

One must ask the question: Why are schools so desperate that they feel the need to lock a child in a room? There could be a number of responses, ranging from safety issues of children or the individual child to the health and safety of staff.

Schools should not be put in the position of having to take such drastic measures. Children with specific needs and with identified behaviours need support to ensure every child is set up for success.

Two years ago we enrolled a child who was on the autism spectrum. He came from Australia where he had a full time ‘learning assistant’. The support we received in NZ: nothing. Hardly setting up for success!

This week we enrolled another child on the spectrum. No support.

The Ministry is correct is reminding us about our obligations in terms of managing children. Now they need to resource schools adequately to allow us to correctly manage children for success!

Leadership…

A Thought…

A Laugh

From Jeff Freeman at Knighton School….

The following is awesome, and so true.

Blessed are those that can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.

One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut.

After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.

The florist was pleased and left the shop.

When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you'card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop came in for a haircut, and when he tried to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left the shop.

The next morning when the barber went to open up, there were a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop.

The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.

And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.

As Ronald Reagan said: "BOTH POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON!"

Children Are Quick

TEACHER: Why are you late?
STUDENT: Class started before I got here.

TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.

TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.

(I Love this child)

TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.

TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!

TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.

TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand.....

TEACHER: Now, Simon , tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mum is a good cook.

TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog.

(I want to adopt this kid!!!)

TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher.

DAFFYNITIONS

~ Coffee: The person upon whom one coughs.

~ Flabbergasted: Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

~ Abdicate: To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

~ Lymph: To walk with a lisp.

~ Gargoyle: Olive-flavored mouthwash.

~ Flatulence: Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

~ Balderdash: A rapidly receding hairline.

~ Oyster: A person who sprinkles his conversation with yiddishisms.

~ Frisbeetarianism: The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

~ Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

~ Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

~ Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

~ Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

~ Arachnoleptic fit: The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

~ Caterpallor: The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.

~ Impeccable: Having immunity to woodpeckers.

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