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mentors

PPTA News: the Magazine

How to mentor meaningfully

November 25, 2025

New mentoring guidelines are an investment in teachers, schools and ākonga

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class

PPTA News: the Magazine

Back to the future

November 25, 2025

Annual Conference delegates question the direction of the proposed changes to secondary school qualifications

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Lisa Hargreaves

PPTA News: the Magazine

Congratulations Lisa!

November 25, 2025

An exceptional ability to tackle issues and determined advocacy make Lisa Hargreaves a fitting inaugural recipient of the Melanie Webber award.

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Melanie fono crop

PPTA News: the Magazine

Melanie Webber service award

June 5, 2025

To honour Melanie Webber’s outstanding contribution to PPTA Te Wehengarua, the national executive has created a new service award.

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CLR teachers

PPTA News: the Magazine

Valuing the mahi

June 5, 2025

The community liaison role trial acknowledges the mahi that teachers do over and above their teaching and is greatly appreciated.

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pizza

PPTA News: the Magazine

Sustainability in action

June 5, 2025

There is something growing at Rongotai College, and it isn’t just the tomatoes, writes James Richardson.

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Massey Branch resolution

PPTA News: the Magazine

Time for branch resolutions against charter schools

April 7, 2025

All PPTA branches are being urged to pass a resolution as soon as possible against charter school conversion

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PPTA News: the Magazine

Outstanding branch activist

March 26, 2025

Lisa Murphy is the 2024 recipient of the Guy Allan award for outstanding branch activism

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Guy Allan award v2

PPTA News: the Magazine

It's all about relationships

June 18, 2024

Keeping the branch together and everyone moving in the same direction during tense industrial times makes John Dyer-Causton a worthy winner of the PPTA Te Wehengarua Guy Allan award

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