26 August 2019

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Kia Ora

Please find this week’s Monday Mailing below.

Hope the term is progressing well!

Halfway through the term. Trots night this Friday.

Have you voted in the NZPF elections, remember to go local!

Do you want to pause the implementation of the LSC, make sure you have your say!

Have a great week.

Kind regards
Tony Mangan
Glenview School

WPA Dates

Connections Day term 3: Dr Tom Mulholland

Registrations are now open for term 3 connection day

Tom Mulholland, Dr

Dr Tom Mulholland is the "Attitude Doctor"

Dr. Tom Mulholland is an Emergency Department Physician at Auckland Hospital, a lecturer in Psychological Medicine at Auckland clinical school, teaching medical students, founder of the Healthy Thinking Institute and developer of global wellbeing App KYND (Know Your Numbers Dashboard).

With more than 25 years of clinical experience, he’s written two internationally best-selling books on Healthy Thinking including 'Healthy Thinking - How to Turn Life's Lemons into Lemonade' and 'The Power of Healthy Thinking - To Change Your Attitude and Your Life'.

An expert on workplace stress, emotional control, productivity, and psychoneuroimmunology. Dr. Mulholland has given over 1000 keynote presentations on wellbeing to international clients like Google, Microsoft, and Hilton and for the last three years has been touring and speaking around New Zealand in his retro Chevy V8 ambulance.

He’s recognized as the host of his own daily TV chat show on TV 2 and weekly talk show on RadioLive and is a regular writer for the Sunday Star Times on health and wellbeing.

The Healthy Thinking Institute developed the psychometric test for attitude profiling. His books on Healthy Thinking are translated into twelve languages and have made the best seller list around the world. He consults on stress and attitude globally to some of the world's largest corporates. He is passionate about Healthy Thinking and how to diagnose and treat attitude illness.

When he is not working as a doctor or on the speaking circuit, Dr. Mulholland enjoys extreme sport and expeditions. He was awarded a New Zealand Defence Force Special Services medal for his medical work in the Boxing Day Tsunami and had a stint as the doctor on a Russian Icebreaker in the Southern Ocean. He’s even toured as a stand-up comedian.

Using his experience as a doctor, entrepreneur, CEO and as a stand-up comedian, The Attitude Doctor can improve your way of thinking and outlook. His presentations will have you laughing, crying, entertained and educated by an experienced doctor both in the clinic and on the stage.

“Tom has got a great message which he presents in a humorous way. How do we change things? By changing our attitudes. He provides great examples of what and how.”
— Sir Ralph Norris, CEO, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

If you are interested in the Growth Plan for education in the Waikato follow these links.

LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS SYMPOSIUM 2019

LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS SYMPOSIUM 2019

Learning Environments: Policy, practice, philosophies

Registrations are now open for the inaugural Learning Environments Symposium held on 11th October at the University of Waikato, Hamilton. If you are interested or involved in learning environments development, research, practice or policy, please join us for a stimulating day of learning, discussions and networking.

The symposium is organised by the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE)’s special interest group on Learning Environments. It is a response to international and national interest in the design and development of innovative learning spaces across educational levels and contexts.

Invited speakers include Jamie Strange (Labour Party List MP, Hamilton), Chris Bradbeer (Stonefields School), Dr Leon Benade (AUT), and Dr Noeline Wright (University of Waikato).

Details and registrations for the event can be found here:

Kind regards,
Dr Elaine Khoo and Suzanne Trask
Co-convenors

Playbased Learning PD:

PLAYBASED LEARNING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HERE IN THE TRON

Longworth Education is hosting three workshops here at Te Ao Mārama next month

The three workshops running are;

The Nitty Gritty - 13 September
Year 4 & Beyond - 14 September
The Role of the Teacher - 17 October

I have been to a number of their workshops, and they are fantastic. Great for anyone, anywhere on the journey of learning and teaching through play.

The flyers are taken from their website/Facebook which has the form mentioned, or register via emailing Daniel at info@longwortheducation.co.nz

Enrolment Schemes

Kia ora Koutou

Many of you now find yourself in a position that you have had, or about to have an enrolment scheme placed on your Kura. What does that mean? and how do you implement that! If its your first time through the process, then about now you need to be discussing with your Board what positions for Out-of-Zone students you may have, at each of the individual Year Levels and how are you going to advertise these positions to your community. Even if you don’t have spaces for Out-of-Zone enrolments, you still need to be advertising this by 15th September.

Attached is a Summary of Deadlines and Responsibilities, along with the Instructions for operating an Enrolment Scheme….good luck with this, Enrolment Schemes where changed in the last round of changes to the Education Act effectively giving the Ministry the power to enforce an Enrolment Scheme. While I would hope that our local office will work with schools in establishing Enrolment Schemes, be under no illusion, they can now enforce one to manage their network of schools.

Have a great week and remember to vote!

Regards
Hamish Fenemor
Principal

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