When is support staff day 2017

As part of this work we are also making sure we get better resourcing for schools. We'd love to see how you celebrated support staff day on social media with the hashtag SSMakingADifference. Write the name of a support staff member in your school, kura, kindergarten or centre and what they do to make a difference. Hold it up and take a photo to post on social media with SSMakingADifference - or put it on the wall! If you're having a gathering to celebrate your support staff, this is a perfect opportunity to test their knowledge of the Mana Taurite pay equity process.

An easy activity to run as an ice breaker for a meeting or morning tea that will get people thinking about all the different jobs that make a difference in education:. Research in Schools. Your name. Your e-mail address. Name of receiver. E-mail of receiver. Many children with serious needs are not covered individually.

At Shannon School, the three aides also help support an additional six children where they can. Four years ago, Powell had to let five teacher aides go because the school could no longer pay them. Freyberg High School employs 70 support staff — the most in Manawatu, because the school caters to a large number of special needs pupils, associate principal Wendy Jochem said.

The funding situation was "very strained" and getting worse, she said. Minister of Education Nikki Kaye said schools' complaints operations grants had barely risen were not true. From to , the increase in Government spending on operational grant funding was more than 16 per cent, almost a third more than inflation.