Useful Information
Transform your staff areas to support teacher wellbeing
Quiet, calming, and inviting spaces are proven to boost student well-being in classrooms. So why not incorporate the same practices for staff areas?
Our stylish Fold Chair, available in soft Elton range fabrics with a brushed finish, will help transform your staff room or common area into a modern space for relaxing and reenergising.
International Confederation of Principals (ICP)
ICP will be holding their conference at the Century City Convention Centre, in Cape Town South Africa, 2 -4 May 2023.
The conference is for Aspiring School Leaders, local and international school Principals, Vice Principals, Heads of Department and Educators.
Save the Date now!
Education Sector Login (ESL)
If you are having problems trying to login to Hapori Matatū through the MoE Education Sector login, to complete endorsements in support of teachers renewing their practising certificates, we understand. We're working closely with the Ministry to ensure this issue is fixed as soon as possible.
If any Principals need urgent help we have a work around, please contact the Registration Manager, Mose Pio by email at: mose.pio@teachingcouncil.nz or 04 497 42705.
We apologise for the inconvenience and will continue to keep you updated.
Bringing Dental Treatment to Schools
The shortfall in oral health treatments in New Zealand has been well publicised over recent months.
Dental Planet wants to change that, by significantly improving the reach of adolescent dental care.
Director Ian Wright comments, “We have been finding students who haven’t had a dental check-up for more than 5 years. We don’t believe this is good enough.”
Dental Planet today has contracts with Te Whata Ora – Health NZ to provide free government-funded dental care to secondary school students in the Auckland, Waitemata, Northland and Waikato regions but is working on growing organically throughout the country.
Dental Planet’s mobile dental team provides oral health services at the school to eliminate barriers such as transportation, distance, and inconvenient appointment times thus improving the number of adolescents accessing dental care. Its growing fleet ranges from single-chair dental mobile vehicles to larger double-chair dental units.
Dental Planet has recently developed a new and exciting collaborative school’s package which incorporates such benefits as oral health education and a careers experience program. If you would like to learn more about Dental Planet’s activities, contact Ian on iwright@dentalplanet.co.nz
Water Skills to survive this summer
We need your help to ensure that tamariki are learning and practicing the right things to help them survive when they get into trouble in the water.
Research confirms that while ‘learn to swim’ lessons are great for getting tamariki into the water, they aren’t consistently focused on the knowledge and skills needed to survive when something goes wrong in the real world. Water Skills for Life is a response to this issue. It is not a ‘learn to swim’ programme. It provides structured ’learn to survive’ content that can easily be incorporated into any existing learn to swim or water-based programme targeting primary and intermediate aged tamariki.
Please ensure that the Water Skills for Life content is a foundational part of any water-based programme delivered by your staff or contractors.
For more information go to www.waterskills.org or contact Esther Hone.