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.
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.
We generate two invoices per principal, the first invoice covers your SPANZ professional membership and school legal cover, traditionally the school will cover the cost of this invoice.
We will then separately invoice you for your personal legal cover and SPANZ Union membership, this invoice is paid by the individual, although some schools will also cover this for you.
In our database we have the school address under your contact details, so all invoices are directed here.
Our billing is based on a calendar year, with all invoices being sent during January. For all membership queries after Term 1 invoices will be prorated accordingly.
We encourage you to join SPANZ at the beginning of each year where possible.
If you are moving from one school to another as principal, you take your membership with you.
Please notify us in the office with your updated contact details so that we can update our records accordingly.
Membership is taken up on a calendar year basis, therefore your membership will continue being valid until 31st December even if you are no longer part of a school. If you would like to continue receiving notifications from SPANZ please contact the office with your new contact details.
It is at your board's discretion how much they will cover of your SPANZ membership.
Traditionally most boards will cover your SPANZ Professional membership and the School Legal cover, as well as Conference attendance/related costs. Principals will then cover their own Personal Legal cover and Union membership.