Congratulations to Tanya Whyte President Wagga Wagga PPC for coordinating and hosting this amazing Conference. President Phil Seymour and I were delighted to join the combined conference – Principals from Wagga, Albury, Deniliquin and Griffith were in attendance for the two days.

Day 1 speakers included Murat Dizdar Deputy Secretary School Operations and Performance, Georgina Harrison – Deputy Secretary Educational Services , Cheryl Best Executive Director Teaching and Learning and Liana Downey Executive Director Delivery. On Day 2 Matthew Brown Relieving Executive Director Wagga Wagga Operational Directorate, Mark Grant, Executive director Leadership and High Performance and Deputy President Diane Robertson Principal Clarke Road presented a session – Principal in The Spotlight where she shared her professional journey. A great line up indeed.

Phil and I presented and ran concurrent workshops as well as opened up the forum for questions. We sought feedback too from the numerous Teaching Principals on the ways they were utilising the additional funding provided by the Department. This information will be directly fed back to Minister Rob Stokes and Secretary Mark Scott. This funding is critical to the operationalisation of our small schools so that the students in these schools are getting the best from those teaching – the Principal as well as keeping a healthy rein on the administrative load we all carry. Many thanks to all in attendance. It was a conference that sets these Principals up for a collegial and collaborative start to the school year.