Through the Teaching Council website you can fill in their application form to apply for an exemption/reimbursement of your Practising Certificate.
Those eligible are those who have signed either an 'Area School Principals' Agreement' or the 'Secondary Principals’ Collective Agreement'.
Please find the form here or call Teaching Council direct for further information: 04 471 0852.
If you are moving out of your city/town to another school you may be eligible for a relocation grant. To access this contact your local Ministry office for further information.
As a new principal and SPANZ member we invite you to contact us any time with any queries you may have.
Secondly we have a new/refresher principal session on the first day of our Annual Conference (the Sunday), this is designed to give you a brief overview of what you can expect as a principal as well as where to go for further information.
The Conference is also a great opportunity for you to meet fellow principals and learn from their experiences.
The SPANZ Legal Fund and SPANZ Union are benefits on offer for our eligible* SPANZ Professional members. Therefore we are unable to offer Legal and Union as separate memberships.
If you have not paid your SPANZ Professional fees, but have paid Legal/Union - you will not be covered as a member or able to access the Legal Fund until Professional fees have been received.
*SPANZ Union is currently only available to those principals on the Collective Agreement
Members of SPANZ Union will automatically receive pay increases (and back payments where applicable) when they occur.
If you are not a SPANZ Union member please contact your board as they will have received information around the pay increase via the Ministry or NZSTA. As a principal you will be required to sign an IEA (independent employment agreement) to access the increase.
Please refer to our President's Comments for any updates to members.
All correspondence with SPANZ is via our office, please contact us in the first instance:
Phone: 09 5712233
Email: office@spanz.school.nz
Outside school hours/term time please contact Suzy Acar-Reynolds, 021 909493 / suzy@spanz.school.nz
The SPANZ Executive meets throughout the year. We encourage our members to contact us with any queries or concerns they have that can be raised at an executive forum - and where appropriate taken to key leaders at the Ministry / Education agencies.
We value the input from our membership and stories of what is happening in your school.
Email: office@spanz.school.nz
We offer a great conference programme for your personal development, at a very reasonable cost. We have also introduced the opportunity of an early-bird rate as well as member vs non-member registration.
Unfortunately we are not currently in a position to offer discounts to attend.