From the commencement of Term Two, a new site has been established for the HCC4 network of schools. Use the link below to access the site. When you click the link you may be asked for a username and password. If so, enter it in the format STAFF\yourusername  and use the password you would usually use when accessing Principals’ Webmail. Principals from HCC4 have been added as authenticated users. If you have any problems, please email Roger
Over the past four years almost 50 NSW principals have received a Leadership Fellowship Award. These principals, or groups of principals, have undertaken research in aspects of school leadership and have travelled to countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand, Finland, Italy and Sweden.
The value of the fellowship is $5,000 and recipients are eligible for up to 20 days or four weeks special leave. Recipients of Leadership Fellowships 2007–2008 will conduct their research in 2008 and complete a report of approximately 3,000 words. Recipients must remain an employee of the Department for two years after completing the Fellowship. Principals interested in applying for a Leadership Fellowship Award should submit an Expression of Interest to the Executive Officer by Monday 30 April 2007. An Expression of Interest Form and further information about the Fellowships are available on the Department’s website at https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/awards/lf.htm or from the Executive Officer contactable on (02) 9266 8903 or awards@det.nsw.edu.au. Â
You can now use the online booking calendar to choose a date for your Term One PARS visit.
Basically, you need to check out the calendar and book in a one and a half hour timeslot for your visit.
You should begin by checking out the instructions by clicking here. You may find that it’s easiest to print this document out and keep it beside your computer to follow through.Â
You can then access the online calendar by clicking here
Please have a look at the location of visits which may be before or after yours, and think about the need for some travel time to get from one to the other.Â
Looking forward to catching up with everybody and hearing about your plans for the year.
You will notice that there is also a link in the ‘Links’ section which takes you directly to the online calendar, or you can click here
For general information about the PARS process, see the link in the ‘Pages’ section at the left hand side of this page.
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The NSW Schools Nanga Mai Awards celebrate and recognise innovation, excellence and achievement in Aboriginal education in New South Wales public schools, school communities and Department of Education and Training regional and state offices.
Awards will be presented to selected high-achieving Aboriginal students, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal teachers, staff, community members, schools and regions. Read the rest of this entry »
For primary schools wrestling with Class Size Reduction targets and un-co-operative numbers, you may find this Class Planner spreadsheet useful for checking that all possible options have been explored.
Welcome to the HCC4 blog for 2007
The year will no doubt be another busy one and the next few months will see the overlay of the pre-election campaign. To assist you in having a clear view of the polocies and protocols around some of the possible issues, have a look at the next post in this blog for some links to relevant material.
This site has been functioning since late July 2006 and will continue to be used as a tool to help communication and organisation within the HCC4 network of schools. If you have a look at the left hand sidebar area you will see a range of links to choose. This gives you access to a range of planning tools and resource locations. A brief description is included in the list below. Please subscribe your email address to be notified every time a new post is added to the blog as this will enable you to keep up to date with what is happening.
Welcome to any new people within the network. At Carrington PS, Tenny Blatchford was successful in gaining the position of PP5 and will be starting the year building on the great achivements of Carrington in 2006. Kay Nicholas joins us at Cardiff South, moving from Shoal Bay while Narelle Ryall will no doubt be facing the challenges in getting a new school up and running at Ashtonfield.
We will be getting an Expression of Interest out in the first week for a relieving position as Principal at West Wallsend High School for the first semester. Please help out by making sure that any people with an interest in this are encouraged to apply.
To others who are returning from leave: welcome back. To everybody else: welcome back too and I look forward to getting to know all of you throughout the year.
Don’t forget to use the link in the left sidebar to subsribe your email address to be notified when new information is added.
With a NSW election coming up in March, there will clearly be a focus on education as an enterprise which currently consumes 25% of the NSW State Budget.
Over the years, there have been several documents issued which outline the protocols and procedures to be followed when dealing with contentious issue in schools or when working out the appropriate way to manage visits of various members of parliament or candidates for election.
The following links will take you to copies of these documents. Please have a look at these and if there is a need prior to the election to check any of the guidelines, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
The documents available are :
The need to retain balance between local issues and community priorities and the focus of a statewide system committed to improving outcomes for all groups is always a challenge. If you have any emergent issues which you would like to have a chat about, please don’t hesistate to get in touch.
If you haven’t already done so, please click here to provide a final update on the Reporting To Parents situation at your school.
There was information released last week in the Memo from Trevor Fletcher. Some links to resources to support what you do are available on the DET Intranet and links are also embedded within an email sent from me last week as well. You can access this email in the archive by clicking the link in the left hand side listing, under the ‘Links’ heading
You can also click here to visit the email archiveÂ
Thank you to many of you for responding to my request for survey input last week. There was a small spike in the usage statistics for that day !
A report including survey data has been submitted to the Regional Director.
In response to what looks like a Dorothy Dixer, the Minister gave a status report to Parliament yesterday afternoon. Probably got lost in some of the many other goings on, but you may be interested to see what was said.