2011

ELECTION SPECIAL

Tomorrow, Saturday we all (YES ALL) head to the ballot box and vote for the party we want to lead our country for the next three years. As your national professional body, NZPF has done everything in its power for the past three years to persuade the government that its present direction in Education is not a direction which you think is best for children’s learning and achievement, for teaching, for your own professional leadership development or for the retention of self-managed schools.

All School Traffic Safety Teams (STSTs) will have new lightweight bright orange safety jackets for the start of term 4. The decision to supply STSTs with new jackets was made in response to feedback from schools on the current safety coats, which schools consider are too hot for children to wear all year round. 

Features of the new safety jacket include:

• lightweight material that meets the required safety standards

The election data has been received  from our Returning Officer Warwick Lampp of Electionz. Our President, in conjunction with our National Secretary Julie Hepburn, have pleasure in making these results available to you.

It has been a very busy time since the last Flyer hit your inbox. I have attended the ICP conference in Toronto (see section below) and on return have delivered another four speeches, to the Hawke’s Bay, Marlborough and NZAIMS Executive and to the NZPF Education Summit.

You can read more on the Summit below.I know that most of you continue to feel dogged by National Standards and in particular, those of you who have submitted non-compliant charters. Below, there is a section on what we see as our next steps in dealing with this situation.