14 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.

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:

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.

WPA pre-Christmas group buying rewards.

If you’re looking for a teaching station, fixed height trolley with 65” screen or an electric lifting trolley with a 65” screen then now is the time to order.

Sales across the association will benefit from group buying pricing.

Get your product now. Pay in January

Regards

Warren Leet
warren@sitech.co.nz
Sitech systems (NZ) Ltd
Education Technology Consultant
Free Phone. 0800100 607
Mobile. 021 405 284

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.

Professional Support Services – Rex Allott

I am offering my services to Principals/Boards of Trustees to help them address requirements related to;

• Principal Performance Reviews/Appraisals
• Performance Reviews/Appraisals for Senior Management.

This service provides independent, transparent and positive support for personal professional practice and development, while meeting legislative requirements determined by the principals professional standards and registered teacher criteria.

I would negotiate a planned approach and any numeration involved. I have recently retired as Principal of Omanu School Mt Maunganui and have current knowledge and experience of working in a busy, challenging and rewarding school environment and with the range of agencies associated with schools.

I would welcome the opportunity to talk/meet with you, should you be considering engaging someone to work alongside you in this role next year.

Contact details

Rex Allott
Ph 027 4196318
Email frallott@xtra.co.nz
- for further details and endorsements
- to arrange to have a chat.

Jargon Buster

You many here about collective ‘efficacy’.

Efficacy: the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

Efficacy is the ability to get a job done satisfactorily. The word comes from the same roots as, and for practical purposes is synonymous with, "effectiveness".

So there. Consider yourself educated.

Hmmm…

Short video – Society versus the school system. From Hamish Fenemor at Cambridge East.

Hauora… Health & Happiness

A Reading…

Excellent 1 ½ minute video… click below:

WPA Survey

Thank you to the 101 people who completed the WPA Survey last week. You can see the results here:

Rapture!

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

Do you read the ERO publications? Some of them have in-depth ideas for school improvement. Have a look at this:

… and Rant – Attendance

Chronic truants… what action can be taken against chronic truants – where frequent and/or continued parent-condoned absences are the norm?

It seems that schools are powerless to impact on the hard-core families. The final step is prosecution – which usually does not bother these families (on the odd occasions the magistrates actually find the parents guilty).

So… what would be effective? Are there proactive strategies that work? Email your ideas to principal@deanwell.school.nz please.

Leadership…

This is an excellent article by Janelle Riki-Waaka from Core-Ed… TBH – Māori Boys’ Writing May Not Be Your Target!

A Thought…

A Laugh

A photon walks into a hotel. The desk clerk says, "Welcome to our hotel. Can we help you with your luggage?" The photon says, "No thanks, I'm traveling light."

What happens to a frog's car when it breaks down?

It gets toad away.

I never wanted to believe that my Dad was stealing from his job as a road worker. But when I got home, all the signs were there.

Q: How do you count cows?
A: With a cowculator.

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