HAMILTON CATHOLIC PRINCIPALS' ASSOCIATION
President: Ms Kath Joblin, St Thomas More Catholic School
19 Gloucester Road Mt Maunganui 3116 Ph: 07 574 6782
Thursday 10th September HCPA Meeting @ CAMBRIDGE
Feedback of Catholic Convention
Expected better standard of liturgies. Felt they were very average
Sr Gemma was a breathe of fresh air – enjoyed sharing with staff
Would definitely go again – great choice of workshops
Venue wasn’t ideal very squashed - split
The Conference Dinner was dreadful – poor quality food/ not enough/ split venues/
Kath spoke of her school’s positive experience of presenting a workshop.
Shelley Fitness - shared her staffs positive experience a great boost to her teachers. Teachers teaching teachers
helps give teachers an insight into where they are at.
Kath encouraged other schools to consider offering to do workshops at next Convention.
Nick suggested schools who presented workshops share them for schools/staff who didn’t attend the Convention.
NZCPPA Update: Mike
Redesign of Special Ed with significant changes over the next year.
Discussion on Attendance Dues - Diocesan issues need to be dealt with within individual Dioceses. No National
Review scheduled.
Policy One: $640.00 is generated per student on 1 st July for Policy One money.
2017 Term Three in Wellington NZ Catholic Principals Conference
Snippets coming out
Catholic Schools Festival
Very successful festival held 9th September. 11 schools involved. Bishop Steve attended for the day. Winner of the
shield for 2015 was Marian School. Brian thanked everyone for their suppot.
Adjudicators spoke highly of the increased standard in particular the Speech section. Mike suggested to publish the
speech winners in Te Kite Korero.
Shelley Fitness has agreed to take on the Catholic Schools Festival for 2016-2017.
Brian suggested that the festival moves every two years to different clusters.
Kath thanked Brian very much for instigating this festival.
Chris Duthie-Jung
Role: Part of the team that set up the Qualification Framework for TCI.
How can TCI engage with schools and teachers to increase the uptake of TCI qualifications?
Clear Bishops vision for all schools.
Taken over the role of Kevin Wandon NRCS sits within TCI.
The digital resource is under Chris’s umbrella.
Catholic Education Booklet is based on Chris’ research.
He does not deal with the quality of presenters of TCI papers.
Understanding Sexuality
Every 18 months we are required to consult with our community. The Bishop is part of our community. Natalie
Steen spoke about an Understanding Sexuality overview from Year 1-8.
Bishop Meeting
Kath reported she had met with the new Bishop last week to discuss Association issues.
Keen to reinstate Principal/Priest Day. Possibly Kath/ a priest/ Chanel Centre rep form a committee to organize the
day.
Bishop is going to organize the next DRS Day in Term Four. He is going to try and get a number of Priests attending.
He is going to launch work around the mass and liturgy. Please ensure your DRS is released to attend this day.
Who is my neighbor review – The Chanel Centre review is going ahead.
Annual General Meeting
Agenda
Date:
Thursday 10th September 2015
Time:
2.30pm
Place:
St Peter’s Catholic School CAMBRIDGE
Item
Description
1
Prayer – Led by Kath
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Present:
Apologies: John Coulam, Raewyn Clark, Deidre Gray-Edwards, Jenny
MacKenzie, Kristine Osburn, Danny Nichols, Ray Scott
Actions from previous annual general meeting
 Hauora for principals operating Jane/John
 Study Award – Masters no longer offered need to revist.
 DRS/Principal Conference – Debra
 DRS Working party started RE Café – did get DRS together to talk
about curriculum a start of the collaboration. Developed a RE Café Web
Page. Bishop has a plan to support DRS.
 HCPA Webpage up and running to ensure principals are all kept in the
loop – Could we consider including the Special Character Reviews on
the Webpage? Please send your review to Debra to upload.
 Jo asked that each schools webpage be included on our Association
webpage.
 Pastoral Care focus for Special Character Reviews. Kath/Natalie will go
through the Diocese reviews and look for trends Diocesan wide and
publish.
Acceptance of minutes of previous annual general meeting
The minutes were circulated prior to the meeting. Motion: “that the minutes are
an accurate record.”
Moved: Kath Joblin Seconded: Jane Rutherford
Carried
Chairperson’s report: Kath read through her report.
Motion: “that the Chairperson’s report be accepted”
Seconded: Cath Swney
Treasurer’s report – A summary will be given to date. The Audited Accounts
will be tabled at our Taupo Meeting in November
Motion: “ that the Audited accounts be tabled at our Taupo Meeting on the 1213th Taupo”
Moved: Kath Joblin Seconded: Jo Brady
Carried
Subscriptions for 2016
Motion: “ that the subs stay the same for 2016”
“ that the Honoriariums stay the same”
Moved: James
Seconded: Helen
Carried
Election of Officers:
Chairperson
Motion: “That Kath Joblin be appointed as Chairperson”
Nominated: David MacMillan Seconded: Natalie Steens
Carried
Motion: “That Debra White be appointed as Secretary”
Nominated: Kath Joblin Seconded: Helen
Carried
Motion: “That James Murray be appointed as Treasurer”
Nominated: Brian Belczacki Seconded: Debra White
8
Executive Committee:
Western Waikato: Brian Belczacki
Coastal Cluster: Kath Joblin
East Waikato: Sean O’Leary
Central Cluster: Dave Mac Millan
NZCPPA:
Term Three 2016:
Observer: James Murray
Nominated: David Mc Millan Seconded: Anton Heyns
Carried
Confirm Schools Council Principal Representation: Nick Quinn
9
10
General Business
No items for general business.
Kath closed the meeting at 2.58pm.
Outstanding Service to Catholic Education certificate being presented to:
Bronwyn Bartle – St Michaels Catholic School for 20 years long service
Friday 11th September 2015 @ Avantidrome CAMBRIDGE
Catholic Schools Office Reports:
Graeme Roil:
Change of model. Now responsive to current learning practices. There is no one approach
Initial discussion with the school outline money to be spent in the next ten years.
What do you want for your school? It takes several meetings.
Currently actively working with eight schools.
Schedule is reliant on school’s readiness for change
The focus is no longer just on buildings but ensuring the pedagogy is a major consideration in planning the building
works within the Diocese.
Schools need to work on “getting ready” prior to building planning stage.
“ Getting ready”: Understanding the process and impact on your staff/ community/. Spend time developing vision
for teaching and learning and how the building will impact on your school.
Furniture and Equipment Grant - needs to be provisioned
A percentage is paid to BOT July every year.
It is essential that school BOTs ensure that the Furniture and Equipment Grant is put aside each year for their
building upgrade.
Greg Day:
Presented report – handed out to all.
Drew our attention to:
Letters of Appointment Template from NZCEO
Schedule 4 – Updated Tagged Position
Peter Richardson:
Discussed:
Proprietor Reps day to be held in Putaruru – Bishop will be sharing the same power point he shared with principals
in Waihi.
Seasons for Growth
Euthanasia – sent out to all Parishes will be sent to all schools.
New Editor for Kite Korero will see a new look.
Refugees – On the agenda – Treat as Domestic Students and they need to fall within maximum role.
Who is my neighbor? Been quiet but meetings are being held.
Dianne Porter:
Good resources
Dianne highlighted some good resources for Staff Prayer and Discussion:
Pope Francis Encyclicals - www.papalencyclicals.net/
National Catholic Reporter
Father Richard Leonard
Dates for 2016: Jubilee Year and Year of Mercy
Commissioning Masses 2016 Bishop Steve will celebrate
Hamilton Cathedral Tuesday 9th February @ 6pm
St Thomas More Thursday 11th February @ 6pm
Gisborne will co-incide with professional development days in January
Monica Brown looking at having some events/dates for her.
Encourage schools to use webpage for communicating RE with parents. Good to have Family Whanau as a link.
NZCEO has great links.
Dianne acknowledged St Michael’s for hosting a RE Support Day. The day focused on helping support staff support
the Catholic School character.
Dianne has led a number of Prayer Workshops with staff around the Diocese.
Dianne asked that any Chanel Centre resources be returned.
Sr Anne Sklenners is always available for staff meetings etc.
Reminder: Next DRS Day: 20th November 2015
Bishop has written a paper on School Masses – he intends to work through this with DRSs on this day.
Paul Shannon
Understanding Sexuality – Link to me Myself and others resource. Paul has sent out a great document which links
the two. He offered to help anyone needing to review their school programme.
Paul shared a success story in secondary – a moderating committee has been involved in assessment. Maybe a
thought to extend into primary.
Te Kowhai School – Organised Tour
Tony Grey- Principal of Te Kowhai extended an invitation for any Principals to join an organised school tour of Te
Kowhai.
“Visitors are very welcome, and the next date I have is Wed 14th Oct 9am (through till as long as 12 if they would
like full tour/discussion/presentation etc) otherwise they can touch base and I will schedule some other dates.”