8 February 2022

Newsletter Articles

Kia Ora

What an interesting start to the year we have had, although – we have all become super agile in recent times. Thinking of all of our colleagues that are dealing with positive Covid-19 cases within their schools. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you need some support.

Here’s to an amazing 2022 in our “new normal”!

Nga Mihi
Chrissy Wakeman
Orini Combined School

A message from Lesley

Tēnā tātou katoa

Ngā mihi o te Tau Hou! Greetings for the New Year.

For those of us who started our school year last week, I hope your first few days of 2022 went well. For those starting their school year today, I hope you have a wonderful first day with your students as they return to school.

It has been somewhat of a daunting beginning to 2022 as we negotiate the onset of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in our communities. To those colleagues in our region who are already dealing with cases in their schools, we send our support and best wishes as you deal with the complexities of this. Kia kaha, kia toa, kia manawanui.

Many of you have been present online for the kōrero with Marcus Freke, our Waikato Director of Education at the Ministry of Education. Thank you for your questions and queries to Marcus and his team and for helping the rest of us gain greater clarity and understanding in these challenging times.

The WPA executive met online last week and have decided that we would cancel our Principal's Retreat that was set down for March. Obviously, this is not a great time for principals to be away from their Kura and we thought it best to make this decision earlier rather than later. We do have some exciting things planned for a little later in the year. As we will not be heading to Rotorua in March, we will hold our AGM online next month. A reminder that nominations are now open for the WPA executive and nomination forms can be found on the WPA website. Nominations close on February 18th at 12pm. A friendly reminder that WPA 2022 subs are due now.

If you need support please remember to reach out to your colleagues or to members of the WPA executive. I am very grateful for the support that I receive from my principal colleagues when needed.

Take care and stay well,

Ngā manaakitanga

Executive Elections

Please find attached the 2022 Waikato Principals' Association executive nomination form for next year's elections.. If you are interested in standing for the executive committee, please fill in the attached nomination form and scan and email back to Sandra Jeffrey, WPA returning officer, by 12pm Friday 18th February 2022.

The WPA elections timeline is: nominations close 12pm Friday 18th February, voting commences Monday 21st February 2022 and closes 12pm 4th March 2022. The WPA committee will be announced at our AGM. The nomination form is also available online on our Waikato Principals’ website under the documents tab:

2022 Subs

2022 Subs are now due – head to our website to become a finacial member for 2022.

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