12 June 2017

Newsletter Articles

Principals supporting Principals… Principals supporting Principles!

Kia Ora

Please find this week’s Monday Mailing below.

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Kind regards
Pat

WPA Catchup Day – Notes

Furnware – Stephen Heppell

Hi everyone

Just following on from the catch up day last week here is the link to the interview with Professor Stephen Heppell.

Thanks and have a great week.

MOE PLD Contracts – Support for Applications

New proposals for centrally funded PLD are due to the Ministry of Education 2nd August, 2017

Institute of Professional Learning (IPL) accredited PLD facilitators can support kura, schools and kāhui ako to prepare a new PLD proposal.

Call Allan Bull on 027 220 9462 or email allan.bull@waikato.ac.nz

PLD proposals submission date: Waikato– 2 August

Police Vetting – Get in Quick!!!

From Mark Penman at Hamilton West

Do you Police Vet your Support Staff every two or three years? Get in before July 1 – while it is still free!!!

Did You Know???? – Extra Teacher Release Time

From the Teachers Collective Agreement

10. TEACHER RELEASE TIME

The parties agree that there will be a one-off provision of teacher release time for the 2017 school year. The one-off provision is for the purpose of strengthening the knowledge of the primary profession around the literacy and numeracy progressions as part of supporting teachers’ assessment and reporting practice across the national curricula.

The teacher release time will be calculated as one (1) day per each full-time equivalent teacher based on entitlement teachers only, as determined in the 2017 confirmed staffing notice. The value of the release time will be paid to each school in the July 2017 payment.

The release time is to fund relief teachers to enable class-room teachers to develop their knowledge as specified above, and disruption to classes will be minimised.

WPA Dates

NZEI – Career Framework

Join with your colleagues in this once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the future of our profession.

BRIEFING MEETING FOR WSRs & PRINCIPALS IN THE WAIKATO BRANCH

When:

Cambridge Branch NZEI
Thursday 22 June
4-5pm
The Stables on Alpha- conference room, 72 Alpha St., Cambridge.

Thursday 15th June 2017
4pm - 6pm
Smith & McKenzie, 13 Lynden Court, Chartwell, Hamilton

Or…

Tuesday 20th June 2017
5pm - 6.30pm
Knighton Normal School, Knighton Rd, Hamilton

Rant – Changes to the Education Act

Consultation around school closures, merges etc? Maybe. But the Act now gives the Minister more sweeping powers to close a school. I assume this is in response to the debacle created by the Minister in Christchurch after the earthquakes.

“The changes in the amended Act give purpose to the process used by the Minister of Education to manage the state schooling network, clarify that the Minister has absolute discretion to make all decisions around school provision and clarify requirements around consultation when schools are closed or merged following an area strategy.”

Hmmm…

Hauora… Health & Happiness

A Reading…

A Thought… Leadership

A Laugh

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