19 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

Teaching Vacancy

Te Uku School: Fixed term teaching position available from 24th July to 19th December 2017. We welcome applications from NZ experienced and registered teachers keen to work closely with another teacher to plan for and teach children in Years 5 and 6.

Application Pack is available from the School Office: 07 8255815; bernardb@teuku.school.nz. Applications close 4:00PM Monday 26th June.

Rachel Allan
Principal Te Uku School

Help!!

I would be interested to know what power we have as schools to keep sick children at home.

Are we able to insist that they are taken to a doctor and not allowed to return to school until a medical certificate is shown?

Responses to principal@deanwell.school.nz please, and I will forward them to the requesting Principal.

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

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.

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

Rant – Changes to the Education Act

Establishing designated character schools - click here.

“The updated Act now has a single process for establishing designated character schools that is more accessible and simpler to follow. This includes removing the requirement for the Minister of Education to be satisfied that the parents of at least 21 potential students want the school established as the sole means of gauging demand.”

Isn’t this wonderful!! It will now be easier to set up Charter schools – never mind that they have not been proven successful!!

It would be great to see data or other information about how these schools are making a difference; and to see what funding they are receiving compared with State schools; and to view the balance sheets to see what profits the schools are making for their owners.

But mostly, I would like the Government to answer this question: if National Standards are so vital for our children, why do we not see NS data from Charter Schools; why is it not compulsory for Charter Schools NS data to be made public? And if National Standards are so important, why are private schools not required to implement them?

Hmmm…

Hauora… Health & Happiness

A Reading… Behaviour Management

This is a very interesting perspective looking at children’s behaviour. Well worth a read.

A Thought… Leadership

A Laugh

FAMOUS PUTDOWNS

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- Shakespeare

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
- Louis Nizer

You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.
- Groucho Marx

He is a self-made man & worships his creator.
- John Bright

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
- David Lloyd George

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.
- Moses Hadas

He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
- Samuel Johnson

He had delusions of adequacy.
- Walter Kerr

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
- Groucho Marx

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

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