This New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association / Te Wehengarua (PPTA) 2011 annual conference paper seeks to amend the constitution to validate the existence of those PPTA branches that operate as part of a national entity but on separate sites.
Constitutional Amendment
Constitutional Amendment: Branches where a school operates on separate sites in two or more regions
Summary: Constitutional Amendment
Rule 14(i) in the PPTA constitution assumed that each school would have only one PPTA branch. It did not envisage the situation we have now, where a single school may have a national existence. For example, Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu (The Correspondence School) now has full sites throughout New Zealand; the trend to multi-campus schools is expected to continue. This constitutional change is to validate the existence of those PPTA branches that operate as part of a national entity but on separate sites.
Recommendations:
- That the report be received.
- That Rule 14(i) of the Constitution be amended to read:
“There shall not be more than one Branch at any one school except where a school operates on separate sites in two or more geographical regions as defined in Rule 21(i), in which case those separate sites shall be deemed Branches of the Region in which they are situated and the members of those Branches shall also be deemed members of the appropriate respective Electoral Areas as constituted by Rule 62(i) thereof.”
Annual conference is the supreme decision-making forum in PPTA and it is by membership response to these papers that PPTA policy is established and actioned so it is important members get the chance to consider them.
We hope you will make these papers available to staff in your schools, the vast majority of whom are PPTA members, and please take the time to discuss these in departments.
Please feedback any thoughts, comments and recommendations to your branch or regional representatives, so they can contribute the branch view at the regional pre-conference discussions on your behalf.
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