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.
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
The SPANZ Executive is voted in on an annual basis at the AGM.
You need to be nominated by another member to qualify for the voting process. Please refer to the Voting section, under Events on the website.
We welcome any queries to become a SPANZ Business Partner, please email the SPANZ office for your business partner pack and further information: office@spanz.school.nz
SPANZ does not currently offer schools insurance. You will need to contact your local broker for this.
Please note if you have a school legal issue and you are using HarrisonStone as your legal counsel for initial advice (through our legal fund), your insurance company may not allow you to continue using their services if the situation/issue escalates. We encourage you to confirm with your broker/insurance company what your options are.
Please refer to SPANZ Legal website pages for further information on how we can help you.
No, SPANZ has one central office that caters for all NZ Secondary Principals around the country.
There are regional principal groups but these are not direct SPANZ representatives.
To assist you with contacting the regional groups please refer to our Community page for further information: Community