Carry Forward Policy | Vice President Michael Burgess

Budget planning support is available for schools to meet their obligations under the new Carry Forward Policy. The next series of webinars focuses on investing accumulated funds.

You can register for these webinars by clicking this link:

Updating Devices to the Latest Version of Windows 10 | Vice President Michael Burgess

Principals would be aware that schools have been asked to update any devices using old versions of Windows 10. The Technology Reference Group has raised issues around the workload associated with this request.

Drew Janetski and the TRG have been able to organise for the updates to be automatically sent out to devices running version 1809. This will be done in a staged way over the next few weeks. This saves schools manually updating 130,000 devices.

Schools will still need to continue to manually update any devices running older versions of Windows 10. Any devices running Windows 7 will be removed from the network by the end of the term.

Keeping devices up to date with the latest version of Windows is important for security reasons. Schools should have plan to update devices regularly. The risk in not updating devices regularly is a cyber attack that renders your devices unusable or compromises personal data. The workload in remediating a cyber attack is greater than the workload to keep devices up to date.

NSWPPA Awards | Vice President Jude Hayman (repeat)

Every year we have the honour to recognise the work of our colleagues through the nomination and selection of recipients of the following awards which are presented to the successful recipients at the NSWPPA State Conference;

Awards are

LIFE MEMBERSHIP or FELLOWSHIP
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
PROFESSIONAL AWARD
ABORIGINAL EDUCATION AWARD
SOCIAL JUSTICE / EQUITY AWARD

Please see the attached document for nomination criteria and submission information

Curriculum Networks Website| Vice President Norma Petrocco

Just letting you know that the new Curriculum Networks Website that Deb Santucci and I work on as principals in residence has gone live and was advertised in SchoolBiz last Friday. Good to know that our work was useful.

Principal Input for Rugby League, Jane Simmons | Vice President Michael Trist

The NRL are aiming to make Rugby League a more attractive sport for boys and girls to participate in and support. They've asked for principal input to this process via a very brief survey at the link below:

Staff Noticeboard | Vice President Stuart Wylie

The Department of Education is streamlining our internal communications through the release of Staff Noticeboard in Term 3. This format will replace SchoolBiz and will be our one stop shop for all news and Expressions of Interest. SchoolBiz will be retired with the final SchoolBiz to be published on the 18th June. Staff Noticeboard is currently live for corporate staff and you can take a look at