Wāwāhi Tahā
In person PUMs an “electric” experience
Barb Curran is in no doubt the electricity she felt in the room in Rotorua last month at Hui-ā-Tau will be replicated in Paid Union Meetings up and down Aotearoa from next Monday. She is reminding people how important it is to attend and reconnect with colleagues. “It was amazing,” says Barb, who was re-elected…
Read MoreCelebrating Tongan Language Week
Otahuhu Primary School has been a whirlwind of activity as the school celebrated Tongan Language Week with their Lalangamo’ui Tongan bilingual hub producing a cultural festival for their community on Friday. The dance and music festival forms part of the school’s annual recognition of the week and demonstrates the importance of Pasifika students being taught…
Read MorePaid Union Meetings – why do they matter?
Birchville School teacher Teresa Salter is looking forward to next week’s online paid union meetings for a couple of reasons. First, she says, it will give her and her colleagues from across the motu the opportunity to discuss in greater depth not only what they want from their collective employment agreement negotiations when they begin…
Read MoreReport Card for Accord Pre-bargaining Process
One of the outcomes of collective agreement bargaining in 2019 was the establishment of the Accord, a forum to discuss and identify shared interests of three parties, NZEI Te Riu Roa, PPTA and the Ministry of Education. There were some agreed areas of discussion, but each party was also able to raise issues and points…
Read MoreEarly investment in education makes long-term savings
Penny Sinclair has one over-riding wish from the Government after a first term that was badly affected by COVID – look at education long term and engage with the Wāwāhi Tahā | Time 4 Tamariki campaign. Lauched last term, Wāwāhi Tahā | Time 4 Tamariki focuses on reducing teacher/student ratios and the ever-increasing work demands…
Read MoreFrom the sales floor to the classroom
Inglewood Primary School’s Rob Wheatley left a “seriously lucrative” sales career to retrain as a teacher at the age of 30 but there’s nothing else he’d rather be doing right now – even in the middle of a “totally disrupted” school year because of Covid-19. Apart from loving his “rock star job”, Rob says there…
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