9 August 2021

Newsletter Articles

Kia Ora,

I am in the process of updating contact details in our system – if you are a new principal and your Monday Mailing is addressed to the previous principal please get in touch with me at chrissy@orini.school.nz so that I can get our details updated.

Nga Mihi
Chrissy Wakeman
Orini Combined School

A message from Lesley

Tēnā koutou katoa
Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa.

For those who attended the NZPF conference last week, I hope you had an enjoyable and informative time away from your schools. NZPF President, Perry Rush, summarises it well in his latest message; including a link to Audrey Tan's pragmatic mathematics paper presented at Conference. He also announces the formation of the new union entity: Primary Principals' Collective Bargaining (PPCB). We are looking forward to further enhancing our relationship with NZPF at our WPA principals' hui with the NZPF executive on Thursday 19th August at the Verandah Cafe, Hamilton Lake.

This week some of us are asaDSttending the PB4L conference in Wellington. The theme for the conference this year is Refresh - Whakahauora, Refocus - Whakaarorangi, Rejoice - Whakamanamana. The focus for the hui is on celebrating the success of PB4L in schools, with a number of schools sharing their PB4L journeys. We can all do with initiatives like PB4L that focus on creating and sustaining positive behaviour in our schools.

Lesley Lomas
Interim President

NZPF Discussion Registration

WPA Dates

Term 3 Connections Day – Shay Wright

Shay Wright (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāruahine)

Shay is a Māori social entrepreneur and co-founder of Te Whare Hukahuka, an award-winning social enterprise developing Māori leadership for tomorrow. Their programmes combine entrepreneurship, innovation, education and indigenous knowledge with teaching community leaders practical skills to lead community change and grow world class organisations.

Shay grew up in the rural Far North, born into a family of teachers. After his own schoolyard businesses, it was his experiences at The University of Auckland and The Icehouse that led to Te Whare Hukahuka. Shay also started his governance journey young, as a founding trustee of the teacher recruitment organisation, Teach First NZ. He now holds advisory board appointments to the Government’s Maori Economic Development Advisory Board, the Kahui Māori for the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge, and The Impact Initiative’s Sector Working Group.

Shay has been named in the 2016 Forbes Asia ‘30 Under 30’ list of Social Entrepreneurs and has been a finalist and winner of many national awards.

Shay will be running three sessions to explore some of the principles that he learned and utilised while at school, ways to develop Maori leadership and ways that schools can build cultural capacity.

• Session 1 - From schoolyard hustler to Head Boy to social entrepreneur.
• Session 2 - Developing the next generation of Māori leadership
• Session 3 - Fostering cultural inclusiveness and cultural capacity in our schools

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