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Senior Positions Advisory Committee

The PPTA Te Wehengarua Senior Positions Advisory Committee meets up to three times a year. Members of the committee are elected on an area basis to monitor and advise on the conditions of employment of senior staff in schools.

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Day relievers and TER programmes

December 12, 2018

Advice and resources around relievers and Teacher Education Refresh courses

SPAC resources

Items discussed at the October 2018 SPAC meeting

December 12, 2018

Notes from the Senior Positions Advisory Committee meeting October 2018

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SPAC resources

Changes to NCEA attainment measures

December 12, 2018

NZQA has been working with the Ministry of Education on developing a new attainment measure. This enrolment-based measure will be used from 2019.

SPAC resources

Payment of meal allowance

December 10, 2018

There is a requirement to pay a meal allowance to staff when schools require attendance that delays return home for an evening meal (STCA clause 7.2 (d) or ASTCA 6.2.1 (d)).

SPAC resources

Surplus staffing 2018

December 10, 2018

The provisional staffing notices are now in schools

Professional issues, SPAC resources

Over-assessment of NCEA students

May 25, 2018

NCEA workload was the biggest topic of the 2016 Workload Working Group which included as parties the Ministry of Education, PPTA, NZQA, ERO, STA, Education Council and principal representation.