Welcome to our latest Newsletter which should go out for the last time from our old data base. We are tantalisingly close to have our new website up and running with an updated data base.

On the issue of new DoE networks, just a reminder….the PPA will not be changing our organisation & we expect all members to remain in their current PPCs. Please note a paragraph later in this newsletter re changing PPCs.

I went to Singapore for the 1st week of the holidays visiting schools with LEAP and it proved a real bonus when you consider Gonski2 certainly has several mentions of the Singapore system. There certainly is a great benefit visiting other systems and assessing how any of the great observations could work in our schools. With that in mind I’m off again with LEAP to Scotland in January to see the interesting things their system is doing.

As many of you may know the NSWPPA, through the Leadership Standing committee, applied through an EOI, to deliver the School Leadership Institute’s Aspiring Principals project to the 1st tranche of participants in Semester 2. We were hopeful that our internationally recognised work in the Principals Credential would get us over the line, but alas, we were advised yesterday that we were un-successful. …so we are feeling pretty disappointed. Our 18 month project which can lead to 50% of M.Ed with the University of Wollongong is pretty special. No idea yet who was the successful bidder, or what their offering is, but we will wait and see what happens. In the mean-time we have already had our first input into this 3rd cohort of school leaders (nearly 90) who are embarking on this outstanding project so we will focus on that.