Banking Staffing Update 25 March 2020

Suggested process for Anticipating Banking Staffing FTTE Usage for Relievers on Autopay During the 4 Week Lockdown.

For all day relievers employed so far this year, 

1   Divide each reliever's total days or hours worked over the 8 weeks (approx) this year by 4 to establish the fortnightly average days/hours worked to apply to the 4 week lockdown for Autopay. (2 weeks are hols, hence the divisor of 4).

2   Multiply the result by 0.14 if counting days, or multiply by 0.03 if counting hours to arrive at the likely ftte usage for the 4 week lockdown period for each reliever to apply to your planner or spreadsheet. 

3   If lockdown continues after 4 weeks, use this ftte usage for each subsequent fortnight's likely usage.

Gavin Price

NZPF Life Member   027 607 6220   gavin.price@xtra.co.nz

Writing at Home - A messge from Murray Gadd

This is a series of writing and writing-related lessons that I have filmed especially for teachers to use with their students in these crazy distance-learning times.  I’ve made them in the front room of my little house on Waiheke Island for kids to use in their front rooms at home. 

So far, I’ve made and posted 6 lessons (for a range of year levels) + an introductory blurb on how to use them.  I’ve tried to make sure that they’re as fun and engaging as possible and that they encompass the best of ‘good teaching and learning practice’. 

I aim to put an additional lesson up each day for the duration of the lock-down.

They’re on YouTube on a channel entitled Writing at Home Murray Gadd.  Schools/teachers can subscribe to them. They are free.  They’re my attempt to keep the joy of literacy going in these troubled times as well as my support for the especially hard work that schools and teachers are having to undertake at present.