2012

As time speeds along, we must not lose sight of our impending Trans-Tasman conference coming up in September. Don’t forget to secure your registration to ensure you take advantage of early bird rates which run out 25 July!

One of the advantages of the Trans-Tasman conference is the additional opportunities offered. One of these comes from Asia:NZ and is highlighted in this special flyer.

Paul Drummond is overseas this week, attending the National Association of Head Teachers’ Conference in the UK, so I have been your acting President in his absence.

The last few weeks have been dominated by schools receiving their charter feedback, and by the sad events up in Moerewa, where the senior school satellite classes have been shut down, and the Board of Trustees has been sacked.

This week we have experienced some serious information technology issues at National Office, which left us without reliable access to our server for much of the week.

We were anxious to get advice to you on the charter process and on annual reporting, and so have posted that advice on our website.  To access the advice from our home page click here. We apologise that this advice could not reach you sooner but assure you that our server is now fully functional.

Some of you will have recently listened to the first major speech from the leader of the opposition, David Shearer. You can read the entire speech here.  Amongst other issues, he gave an indication of his thinking about educational matters.

The reporting of his educational views tended to focus on isolated comments such as ‘…we can’t afford to have bad teachers in our classrooms.’ ‘As a parent, I want to put badly run schools on notice.’