PPTA Te Wehengarua - New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association

👨🏻‍🏫 Teachers are experts in the classroom, so we asked what they thought about the new national qualification. This is what they had to say.
✨ At PPTA we advocate for change to be meaningful, considered, and to keep students at the centre ensuring every young person in Aotearoa New Zealand has the chance to succeed in a qualifications and assessment system.
🔗 Find out more about our work in this space on our website, here: https://buff.ly/DNH486B

📄The open letter calls for regulation that would make tech platforms accountable for harmful content published on their sites.
✨The letter is part of the campaign led by Amnesty International and the Tāhono Trust.
🔗 Read the letter here: https://buff.ly/XYRB0K4
✍️ Add your name here https://buff.ly/A2VKB3h

📢 Want support understanding the curriculum consultation? Check out the AEC webinars!
👩🏻‍💻 Join the webinar here: https://buff.ly/abEipax
📖 Consultation is now open on the second group of senior secondary subjects in the new Years 11–13 Curriculum. Feedback is open until 8 July.
📒 Your expert knowledge and experience means that your feedback is critical. Check out our guide, which also includes a link to where you can submit feedback to the Ministry of Education 🔗 https://buff.ly/IintJC2

🌈 This week we are celebrating Schools' Pride Week!
✨ Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa is an annual pride campaign celebrating rainbow staff, students and whānau in school communities across the country.
❤️ What activities are you doing in your school to celebrate?

📢 Consultation is now open on the second group of senior secondary subjects in the new Years 11–13 Curriculum
🗓️ Feedback is open until 8 July.
📒 Your feedback is critical. Check out our guide, which also includes a link to where you can submit feedback to the Ministry of Education.
🔗 Check out our guide here: https://buff.ly/vgp9CwN

💪 When Myanmar's teachers walked off the job in protest at the 2021 military coup, they didn't abandon their students — they volunteered in remote villages instead.

🇲🇲 Now, thanks to the support of PPTA Te Wehengarua, our partners at UnionAID are helping bring modern teaching methods to rural Myanmar to keep children learning. This project has now trained 43 teachers to deliver quality secondary education to students across 28 villages.

🤝This is solidarity in action, and we're proud to support work like this - building education from the ground up in communities that need it most.

✨Our Regional Chairs gathered in Wellington over the weekend for their forum.
✅ This was a great opportunity for our member leaders to come together, learn from one another, get updates on what's happening in the union, and plan for the year ahead!
🙌🏽 A big mihi to all of our regional chairs for the great work they do!

☀️ Solar panels are coming to a school near you!
🔋 Some good news this week from the government that 500 schools will be funded to install solar panels to power learning.
💵 The potential for thousands of dollars of energy cost savings is great news for schools whose operational budgets are shrinking in real terms.
🌱 The funding of renewable energy sources also supports a move away from diesel and coal burners in our schools.