20 March 2017

Newsletter Articles

Principals supporting Principals… Principals supporting Principles!

Kia Ora

Please find this week’s Monday Mailing below.

You can access all previous Monday Mailings by clicking here or going to http://www.wpa.ac.nz/1/newsletter_sets/1-monday-mailing/years/2017 in your web browser.

WPA Dates

Schools' Challenge - Trots Night

April 13, last day of term 1.

$150 a table of 10.

To book go to the WPA website or click the link below:

For further information email johnc@cdh.org.nz or phone John Coulam on 0272 538 634.

WPA Road Trip – Auckland!

Visit a range of Auckland schools from Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th May 2017.

NZPF Conference Queenstown

Tuesday 19th September - Friday 22nd September 2017.

The WPA is subsidising this trip by $35,000.

Accommodation

1. Accommodation will be at The Glebe – individual rooms in apartments.

2. If you want to stay outside the above dates you will need to make your own arrangements for these nights.

Flights

3. The WPA will reimburse a maximum of $300+GST to each school for flights. Send a school invoice & ticket details to Sandra Jeffrey (WPA admin support) rtlb.admin@mi.school.nz to be reimbursed.

4. WPA Recommended flight for leaving is Flight 617 departing from Auckland on Tuesday 19th Sept @ 10.30am and return flight is Flight 622 on Friday 22nd Sept @ 2.30pm

5. Please note that flight prices are subject to change very quickly.

6. Some members may prefer to fly earlier/later on the many options out of Auckland.

Scholarships

7. We are proud to be able to offer x10 $700 scholarships for Principals in U1/2 schools (grading roll).

8. We also encourage U1-3 Principals to apply for the NZPF Don Le Prou award (10 awards of $1,000 each)

9. If successful in securing a Don Le Prou award, this can then reduce our costs or provide an opportunity for another colleague.

Registration

10. NZPF Conference:

11. WPA:
Register here or at the link below by clicking Add to Cart.

Rant - Funding

The funding schools are receiving from the Government is shrinking every year, in real terms. We are being expected to do more, with less. And Government legislation is making it even harder to find the money to run our schools.

Police Vetting - Under the Vulnerable Children’s Act, schools must have prospective employees Police Vetted. In addition, many schools feel obliged to Police Vet volunteers (camp, parent helpers in class, etc). Did you receive the email from the Police saying that they are introducing a users-pay scheme - $8.50 per vet? Will your school receive extra funding for this?

Chat to your local MP about this!

Scaffolding – New regulations under the Health and Safety Act require contactors to use scaffolding in nearly instance of building maintenance – such as painting. You can expect a significant increase in costs when it comes to repainting your school. Will your school receive extra funding for this?

Chat to your local MP about this!

Sound systems - Ten years ago our school installed sound systems in every classroom to ensure hearing-impaired children could hear what the teacher was saying. A couple of years ago, these systems were made illegal because of Government regulations impacting on available frequencies. The cost for our school to replace the systems – about $40,00 for eighteen classrooms.

The sound system in our hall has to replaced as well… $2,000.

Will we receive extra funding?

Let me know what other cost increases schools have incurred without recompense… principal@deanwell.school.nz.

It’s an election year. Maybe it is time we brought these issues into the public forum – including the parents in your school.

Hmmm…

Hauora… Health & Happiness

A Reading…

How Can Schools Prioritize For The Best Ways Kids Learn?

Leadership…

Shared reality, shared goals

The best way to persuade someone of your new approach is to begin with three agreements:

We agree on the goals. We both want the same outcomes, we're just trying different ways to get there.

We agree on reality. The world is not flat. Facts are actually in evidence. Statistics, repeatable experiments and clear evidence of causation are worth using as tools.

We agree on measurement. Because we've agreed on goals and reality, we agree on what success looks like as well.

All three allow us to enroll on the same journey, and to hold each other accountable for our work. Any other approach disrespects your partners and leaves you in a corner, without allies.

A Thought…

A Laugh

People Who Follow The Rules So Literally That They Beat The System

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