President's Message

President’s Message

Dear Colleagues

While we move into the Spring weather, I hope you are able to enjoy the sunshine and warmth after the challenging Autumn and Winter months dealing with COVID-19 issues. As I have said previously, I hope you are taking good care of yourself and enjoying the term break before the last term commences.

As you can see from the newsletter, the CaSPA Board has continued to contribute to the educational landscape in Australia. This year it has been very affirming that the Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) and agencies such as AITSL and ACARA have been valuing CaSPA’s and other Peak Principal Associations’ perspectives with numerous consultation requests. More recently there has been consultations with Headspace, Be You and Beyond Blue to explore the well being needs in school communities. Along with the development of the Coalition of Australian Principals (CAP) I hope this level of consultation with the practitioner voice of principals will continue into the future.

The Education Council has met in September to consider some recommendations from CAP and these matters will also be addressed in the December meeting of the Council. These updates are available at http://www.educationcouncil.edu.au/

My very best wishes to you and your school communities for Term 4 and Happy World Teachers’ Day for 30 October.

Loretta Wholley

CaSPA President