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Secondary Teachers Will Enter Arbitration Process But Need Government Commitment
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 1:01 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
PPTA Te Wehengarua, the secondary school teachers’ union, will enter independent arbitration as a means of resolving the dispute over the Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement (STCA), as long as the government publicly commits to the outcome. “We ... More >>
Primary School Teachers Reject 3rd Offer
Friday, 12 May 2023, 12:41 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Primary school teachers have voted to reject their 3rd offer from the Ministry of Education. Lead negotiator for the Primary Teachers’ Collective Agreement negotiation team, Barb Curran, said the vote reflected primary teachers’ frustration ... More >>
Secondary Hold Rolling Strikes Throughout Aotearoa New Zealand
Monday, 8 May 2023, 11:58 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
More than 20,000 secondary teachers will hold rolling strikes around the country this week, starting with the entire South Island tomorrow. The strikes are in protest at the lack of progress in negotiations for a collective agreement that meets the ... More >>
Secondary Teacher Shortage Forces Increasing Number Of Classes To Be Cancelled
Thursday, 4 May 2023, 1:36 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Increasing numbers of secondary schools are having to cancel classes or transfer them online or to other providers because of a shortage of subject specialist teachers, the PPTA Te Wehengarua annual staffing survey has found. According to the survey, ... More >>
Secondary teachers welcome new timeline for NCEA changes
Thursday, 20 April 2023, 5:11 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
19 April Secondary teachers are pleased the Minister of Education has listened to some of their concerns about the need for more time to implement changes to the NCEA successfully, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua acting president. “We ... More >>
School Attendance Initiatives Welcome - But More Is Needed
Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 10:25 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
School attendance initiatives welcome – but more is needed Initiatives announced by the Government today to help get young people back to school are welcolme steps in the right direction but even more assistance is needed, say secondary teachers. ... More >>
Secondary Teachers Set Date For First National Strike
Friday, 10 February 2023, 10:16 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Secondary teachers have decided that if there is still no satisfactory progress with their collective agreement negotiations over the next five weeks, they will hold a national one-day strike on Thursday 16 March. “After three years of constant ... More >>
Government Offers Rejected Resoundingly By Secondary Teachers And Principals
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 1:24 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
PPTA Te Wehengarua members have rejected all recent offers by the government for settlement of the secondary principals’ and secondary teachers’ collective agreements and the area school teachers’ and area school principals’ collective agreements. ... More >>
A Better Offer Needed For School Leaders
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 11:30 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
The Secondary Principals' Council (SPC) of PPTA Te Wehengarua has rejected offers from the Ministry of Education for settlement of the Secondary and Area School Principals' Collective Agreements. The Secondary Principals’ Council is made up of elected ... More >>
School Attendance Report Hugely Concerning – More Time And Resources Needed
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 6:05 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Turning around poor school attendance rates will not happen overnight but with the right solutions, it can happen, says Melanie Webber, President of PPTA Te Wehengarua. “As the Education Review Office report released today (Thursday 10 November) shows, ... More >>
Government Ignores Its Own Evaluations On Learning Support Coordinators
Monday, 7 November 2022, 3:23 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
After three evaluation reports of the Learning Support Coordinator (LSC) position and function in schools the government is still ignoring the recommendations. Earlier this year, as part of negotiations for a new collective agreement for area school ... More >>
Improvements Needed To Make The Most Of Learning Support Coordinators
Friday, 28 October 2022, 11:58 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
A report released today evaluating the effectiveness of Learning Support Coordinators (LSCs) in schools shows a glaring gap between schools that have access to these specialists and those that don’t – and it needs to be addressed, says Melanie Webber, PPTA ... More >>
Literacy And Numeracy Pilot Results Show Need For Sharper Focus
Friday, 21 October 2022, 9:51 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
The release of the first pilot of new literacy and numeracy standards shows the urgent need for a pause on the overhaul of NCEA to enable teachers and students to focus more on literacy and numeracy, says PPTA Te Wehengarua national executive member ... More >>
Concerned About School Attendance? Support Fair Pay Agreements
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 3:44 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Anyone who cares about education should get behind the Fair Pay Agreements legislation, due for its second reading in Parliament today, says Chris Abercrombie, Junior Vice President of PPTA Te Wehengarua. “I am a history teacher at James Hargest College ... More >>
Secondary Teachers Call For End To Academic Streaming
Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 1:19 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Secondary teachers have called today for an end to academic streaming by 2030 because of the educational harm it is causing to Māori and Pasifika students. PPTA Te Wehengarua annual conference delegates, representing 20,000 secondary teachers around the motu, ... More >>
Call For New Way To Staff Schools – On Need Not Numbers
Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 1:12 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Secondary principals and teachers are calling on the Minister of Education to implement a new model of staffing secondary schools that is based on student need, rather than student numbers. Kate Gainsford, principal of Aotea College and Chair of the Secondary ... More >>
Secondary Teachers Welcome Investment Package But...
Wednesday, 14 September 2022, 12:44 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
The Government’s announcement that it will provide funding for additional teaching and tutoring and more Te Kura summer school places, to help the students worst affected by COVID to catch up on or re-engage with learning, is welcome, says Melanie Webber, ... More >>
Invest In Teachers, Invest In Aotearoa
Thursday, 11 August 2022, 5:11 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Secondary teachers are calling on the Government to invest in young people and Aotearoa New Zealand as they launch a campaign today in support of their collective agreement negotiations, which began formally in July. “Ensuring that rangatahi have the knowledge, ... More >>
NCEA Mitigations The Boost Students Need
Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 10:59 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Secondary teachers welcome today’s announcement by the Government that the ongoing disruption caused by COVID-19 is being recognised, and mitigations put in place. “Hundreds of thousands of rangatahi have had their most critical years at high ... More >>
Wellbeing At Heart Of Secondary Principals' Claim
Tuesday, 9 August 2022, 1:02 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Wellbeing is a major focus for secondary principals as they begin bargaining today for a new collective agreement. Cathy Ewing, principal of Nelson College for Girls and member of the negotiating team, says the claim recognises the impact that ... More >>
