President's Message
Dear Colleagues
I trust the end of the year activities and recruitment processes are going well for you and your community. I also hope that your end of year community celebration events go well too.
Thank you to all of our Principals who completed the CaSPA Survey during November. The response rate was outstanding and CaSPA looks forward to sharing the results and analysis with you during 2025.
On behalf of the CaSPA Board I would like to sincerely thank Darren Atkinson (Vic) for his dedicated service as CaSPA Director. His wisdom and commitment have contributed much to CaSPA’ work and advocacy. I wish him well for 2025 and beyond.
May I also express my good wishes to all of the Principals who are either retiring or moving to a non-Principal role next year. Thank you for your leadership, commitment and service to your community as Principal. May God’s blessings be with you as you transition to the next phase of your life. I also extend good wishes to those Principals changing schools or roles.
In conclusion, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. I hope you have a truly restful break and my very best wishes for the New Year.
Blessings to all
National Principals Representative Group
We had another meeting with the Federal Minister for Education last Friday in Sydney. We sought as a group commitment to financially support a Principal Supervision initiative as well as support of Principals and schools in the media as schools are targeted for many social shortcomings. I will transcribe my notes and publish them on our website.
ACARA
We had a Principals Representative Group meeting with ACARA and were informed of the release of the new site. It will be 5.00am 4th December 2024. New features provided such as school location maps. Extra measures put in place to prevent the release of League Tables. Schools that are making a difference is a new tab. National Report on Schooling will be released on 18th December 2024 (Voc Ed/Attendance a feature)
Best wishes
Dr Stephen Kennaugh GAICD
CaSPA President
