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Documents

PPTA News: the Magazine
Introducing the Senior Positions Advisory Committee
Associate and Deputy Principals have their own voice within PPTA Te Wehengarua, representing their views and concerns at the national level.
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Celebrating our differences
A new network and advisory committee will be set up to recognise and support the strengths and abilities of neurodiverse kaiako.
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Call for taskforce on flexible learning spaces
PPTA Te Wehengarua Annual Conference has decided to set up a taskforce to work through and make progress on members’ serious and long standing concerns about flexible learning spaces.
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Keeping well digitally
Parents and teachers need to be role models for children and young people’s digital wellness
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Tokomaru pop up kura
Hoana Forrester’s carport became a classroom for isolated Tokomaru Bay ākonga after the cyclone
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Heart of the community
Te Karaka Area School became the civil defence centre and the hub of the community in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle
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Introducing your representative in a range of professional fora
Meet Louise Ryan, who represents PPTA Te Wehengarua members in various national educational and union-based advisory groups
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Pressing pause on RAS
Annual Conference has called for a pause on the Review of Achievement Standards (RAS) to enable curriculum changes to align better with NCEA changes
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End of academic streaming in sight
Annual Conference decided to advocate for the abolition of streaming in secondary schools by the end of 2030
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