Message From Our New President

Kia ora koutou

Thank you for your attendance at our recent APPA Zui.  I have attached the slides from the health presentation below.  Thank you to Alison and Pip for taking the time to talk with us.  

We had excellent attendance from our membership at our Zui.  This method of connecting with our membership will certainly be factored in to our 2022 Calendar moving forward, in our 'APPA Hybrid Model' of connecting both digitally and with kanohi ki te kanohi meetings. 

What great news regarding all schools receiving a supply of Rapid Antigern Tests. Like the mask supply, and the funding contribution for Covid response, having resources come directly to the school is appreciated. This may be  the start of a MOE model where equity of resourcing for all schools is as of right. 

While we are still faced with Omicron infections in our schools, and with high daily case numbers, it is good to know that we are on the other side of this surge though we are not out of the woods yet by any means. 

As I mentioned last week, our APPA principals have needed to continuously pivot and adjust to meet the needs of our tamariki, whānau and staff.  It has been really challenging work, and constant change is hard, and we are all experiencing this pressure.  We have seen strong manaakiatanga and rangatiratanga from principals both formally and informally and we need to continue this support of each other.  Reach out if you need to, kia kaha, ngā mihi nui.   

Noho ora mai

Wendy Kofoed

President

Following our AGM, members were asked to identify;

• What themes should underpin Auckland Schools' COVID recovery?
• What support do Auckland Principals most need?
• What are the three most important issues that should drive the Executive's Advocacy.

Your executive held a strategy meeting this week to work through and prioritise your feedback to us regarding our key areas of focus for 2022.  It was difficult to narrow down your suggestions as all are of importance.  We will update you on our key areas of mahi after our next executive meeting.  There was strong commonality across clusters, and you will not be surprised by the suggestions made. Working together in our clusters and sharing ways of working through APPA, will support us moving forward.

Whilst there is still further teasing out to be done, the Executive are hopeful of sharing our 2022 Annual Plan in the next few weeks.

Steven King