A Canterbury Perspective

Challenges

Overview

• Background• Welfare• Policies & Procedures• Communication systems• Experiences with MoE• Other Challenges• Future Challenges• Key lessons

Heathcote Valley School

Principal’s New Vocabulary

• Geonet is your home page

• The most expensive bottles are now on the bottom shelf

• Rangiora is considered the new Fendalton

• Looking over the fence you discover that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side

You know you’re in CHCH when …

• You DON’T call the police when there is a massive group of students in your street

• A game of Jenga only ever takes 3 minutes

• You have to compete with your cat to find a new place to crap in the garden

You know you’re in CHCH when …

• Staff

• Student

• Community

• Principal

Welfare

Policies Procedures

• Emergency provisions• Classroom re-entry• Ultimate responsibility• School closures• Delegation to school leaders• Off-site procedures• Emergency drills• Tsunamis

Policies Procedures

• Emergency Text • Server• Email database• Website• Cloud options

Communication

• Pressure to reopen (especially after June)• Liaison people • Mixed-messages• Email traffic Minedu website• Schools left on their own to get

emergency supplies• Interim response fund & staffing support• Zone exceptions

The Ministry of Education

• Effect on roll – displacement factor

• Challenge of keeping things going

Other Challenges

Future Challenges

• Property funding • Christchurch network system • Finance• Opportunities – community hubs,

CCC• Impact on student learning

• Be prepared

• Policies and procedures

• Communications systems

Key Lessons