NSW Primary Principals' Association
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Last week at State Council

Your PPC delegates have a wealth of detail to share with you at your upcoming PPC meetings. The delegate’s role is key to ensuring all members are informed and engaged in the business of the Association. Contacts in your PPC’s will have received comprehensive Reference Group, Standing Committee and Working Party reports also to present at your meetings. Along with these reports they will share their notes from the amazing speakers and panels we heard from. These included

Education Minister |Sarah Mitchell

Key points your delegate can unpack:

  • Five key areas being worked on.
    1. Elevate the profession, valued by community
    2. Improve teacher supply and build on incentives
    3. Strengthen initial teacher education (remuneration, more prac time)
    4. Retain current workforce, improve retention
    5. Better understanding of future workforce needs (numbers of teachers, subject areas
  • Rewarding excellence in teaching
  • Principal Classification
  • Early Years Commitment

Finance Team | Sally Blackadder | Vanessa Felton | Jess Horn | Mary-Lou O’Brien

Key points your delegate can unpack:

  • The School Success Model seeks to reduce and simplify financial and admin processes.
  • SPARO & eFPT
  • Carry Forward Policy
  • Simplifying School Budgets with the removal of budgeting to staffing dollars rather only showing FTE and flexible funding.

Simone Walker | Group Deputy Secretary

Key points your delegate can unpack:

  • System targets – pushed back to 2023 due to Covid disruption.
  • Attendance important. Acknowledged the complexities in meeting targets post COVID.
  • Teacher workforce – present at the national meeting this week
  • Enhancing the profession not just about advertising – salaries, school funding, principal classification etc.

Technology Team | Sandie Mathews | Mark Greentree | Hugh Twomey | Linda Lazenby

Key points your delegate can unpack:

  • The digital strategy. Moving from ’doing digital to being digital’.
  • NSW Government Education Showcase on 23 September at UNSW – last day of term.
  • Rural Access Gap. The DCO position established to provide sustainable support in the context of their school including PL. 565 DCOs across schools. Suggested a DCO allocation as an FTE to extend the impact across the system and create sustainability.
  • automate move from faculty drive to cloud, advice around file structures just for RAG schools first.
  • admin processes; SAMM panel – replacement of EBS student finance administration and attendance with 3rd party suppliers. Student finance panel to provide a minimum viable product to replace EBS cashdesk. What support available for schools to transition to new finance model – currently costing and more information and recommendations coming after testing.

IER Team | Laura Milkins | Jessie Kingston | Trisha Ladogna | Sylvia Corish | Craig Smith |Lisa Whittaker

Key points your delegate can unpack:

  • IER
  • Inclusive Education
  • Student Behaviour
  • Team Around a School
  • Who do I call to get support?
  • School Behaviour Management & Support Plan
  • IFS for Kindergarten students
  • Restrictive Practices

Learning Improvement | Martin Graham | Paul Wood | Megan Kelly | Stacey Quince

Key points your delegate can unpack:Strengthening Support for Students

  • Universal support
  • Strategic School Support
  • COVID ILSP
  • Leading Implementation
  • Curriculum Advisor Team Support