• After we had Geoff Masters attend Term 3 State Council to discuss the Curriculum Review he is conducting for the Minister, President Phil & Deputy President Robyn attended a DEL’s Workshop on the ramifications & possible directions of the Curriculum Review.

• As you are aware the President has an office on Level 5 Building 10 in UTS Broadway where Phil works from. The University is having some major re-shuffles and our office has been moved to the School of Education on Level 4, room 202 in the same Building 10. We will be able to have greater collaboration with the School of Education, so it is a big positive.

• The Term 4 APPA & AGPPA meetings were recently held in Sydney. Rob Walker attended the AGPPA meeting with Deputy President Robyn and Robyn attended the APPA meeting. A full report will be tabled at Term 3 State Council. Dennis Yarrington, (ex ACT PPA) attended his last APPA meeting as President after 4 years, and newly elected President Malcolm Elliott (Tas PA ) showed he is ready for the position. Our President Phil was elected un-opposed as Deputy President again.

• Whilst visiting the North Coast Combined PPC conference is was great to see ex Chair of our IT Reference Group and current T4L Director Mark Greentree & his team displaying the STEM trailer & gear. We had a chance to play with the array of wonderful gear. What a fabulous initiative by the DoE.

• The Minister has launched a Review to determine the place of mobile phones in schools & President Phil appeared on the Today show one morning extoling the virtues of technology as a support for learning. He discussed the behaviour of using phones & how that was how we would control the issue in primary schools.

• Presidents & delegates have been sent an Excel sheet to update the details of their Executive, their 10 representatives for merit selection panels and meeting dates & venues for 2019 following their AGMs. I need to stress how important it is to get this information to us asap as HR is often after principal reps for panels & we won’t approve anyone not on these lists.

On behalf the Executive, Phil Seymour, Di Robertson, Rob Walker, Lyn Davis, Ian Reeson, Bob Willetts, Michael Burgess, Jude Hayman, Michael Trist, Craig Redfern, Mark Pritchard, and myself thank you for your awesome efforts. We are here to support you and our contact details are on our website.

cheers

Robyn Evans
Rel PRESIDENT