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Kia ora e te whānau
Welcome to term 3! To say I am excited is an understatement. On Monday 2 August, we kick off the NZPF National Conference in Rotorua. Over 700 delegates, business partners, sponsors, and special guests will descend on the Energy Events Centre for a very special 3 days of learning, networking, and celebration.
The privilege of principalship is immense. The gift of working with young people provides principals with the impetus to keep leading - it is important work! However, only this past week I was speaking with a newly appointed principal who commented that she hadn’t realised how lonely principalship was.
The antidote to isolation is connection and relationships - being part of a community of like-minded professionals who experience the same challenges. Sharing the problems of practice, the successes, the frustrations, and ideas for change and growth is critical. In a schooling system as decentralized as ours, connections are vital.
We are in a period of significant educational change. Pedagogical, curriculum and cultural change assert themselves forcefully and we need to be clear about what all this means in our leadership of schooling. This conference is packed with information that will highlight current issues and encourage you, as the educational leader in your community, to be bold in charting the pathway forward. Such a goal reflects the kaupapa we have been growing over the past few years - to be muscular in our leadership, as a connected community of practice-based leaders.
If you are unable to make it to conference this year, then look out for the presentations and papers post conference. We will make these available to all members.
If you are attending, I look forward to seeing you soon.
Ngā manaakitanga
Perry Rush
perry@nzpf.ac.nz
NZPF Conference - Next Week!
We are looking foward to seeing everyone at the conference next week.
Event-specific messages with important details will be emailed to delegates who have already registered, so please keep an eye out for these. You will also be sent a link to download the conference app which can be used during the conference.
If you have not already registered, it's not too late - just go to the website at www.nzpfconference.com.
Nominations for NZPF Election - Closing Soon
Nominations for the NZPF President, Vice President and 11 Executive committee members close on 5 August.
Click here for the form to nominate candidates for President and Vice President for next year.
Click here for the form to nominate candidates for the executive committee for the next two years.
The electoral roll closes on 25 August. Your subscription payment must be received by this date in order to be eligible for voting.
NZ Principal Magazine also Online
You and/or your team members can easily access the NZ Principal Magazines online, as an e-magazine or as a PDF. Additionally you can search for a previous issue, an article by title or by the author of the article. All magazines back to Term 1 2012 are available in this format. To view or search click here.
OfficeMax 0800 What's Up
Back to school time can be a difficult and anxious time for our tamariki.
While it is considered a core strength of New Zealand’s teacher workforce to play an emotional support role for pupils, counselling is not in the scope of our expertise.
As young people grapple with an increasingly complex and varied range of issues, services like the child and youth counselling helpline 0800 What’s Up are absolutely essential for connecting our young people to qualified counsellors who can rapidly provide the necessary support.
Alongside our business partner OfficeMax, we’d like to encourage our school leaders to raise awareness of the latest 0800 What’s Up ‘toolkit’ for tamariki in schools across New Zealand, including posters, web banners and other digital assets to help raise awareness of the youth helpline.
To find out more and download these resources for your school visit the OfficeMax website below:
Link: https://www.officemax.co.nz/social-responsibility/0800-whats-up-resources
Free Items For Schools
NZPF has been approached by the Civil Aviation Authority of NZ and the Aviation Security Service, who would like to offer schools relinquished Items from airport passengers and Excess IT equipment and devices as a donation.
Although the items published in last week's newsletter have already been allocated to schools who requested them, there is an ongoing supply of scissors and batteries on offer.
To claim these items, please send your request to the Donations Team at: avsec_caadonations@caa.govt.nz
NZPF assures its business partners that, as members, you will contact them to have a conversation if you are purchasing products, services or solutions for your schools that a business partner supplies. Please support our partners as their assistance to NZPF means better membership services to you.
