Please see below for important information on this

Union Meeting - Wednesday 7th September - 1.00pm-3.30pm

The Board of Trustees has been formally notified of a Paid Joint Union meeting with PPTA

(Secondary teachers) and NZEI (Primary) in accordance with the Collective Agreements. This

requires the Board to be informed 14 days prior to the date of the meeting.

The meetings are paid union meetings, which means all staff at Oaklands School will be

attending the meeting on Wednesday 7th September 2016 between 1.00pm and 3.30pm.

We encourage you to pick your children up at 1.00pm. If this is impossible, please contact the

school as early as possible so that we can make appropriate arrangements for your child.

The Government has announced a proposal to dramatically change the way schools are funded.

Principals and Boards of Trustees would have to make trade-offs between teaching staff and

other costs schools face.

Teachers are very worried that the global budget would lead to:

 fewer teachers and larger class sizes

 less job security for teachers

 lower quality teaching

 fewer hours for teacher aides and support staff

 more complex financial work for Boards of Trustees

The Governments current funding review is a once-in- a-generation opportunity to better fund

education. NZEI Te Riu Roa and PPTA are the unions that represent more than 60,000 teachers

and support staff from birth to year 13. They have asked all members at our school to attend

meetings in September to hear more about the proposal and help determine the education

sector’s response.

It is important for union members in our school to attend these meetings to have a say about how we get better funding, not bulk funding.