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The Holidays Act provides employees with an entitlement to 11 public holidays. Public holidays are in addition to annual holidays. This section outlines the law around these holidays.
This guide has information on developing, reviewing, and updating a charter.
Links to a range of templates, tools, and checklists on the Ministry of Education and other sector websites.
You don’t need to be a lawyer to be a school leader, but you do need to understand how natural justice, judge-made law and legislation affect your role. These basic principles will help you.
A school’s board must have a meeting to determine what action to take regarding a suspended student.
Exclusion and expulsion are methods of permanently barring a suspended student from attending a particular school.
In order to stand-down or suspend a student, the principal must be satisfied on reasonable grounds that the student has displayed the following:
The National Administration Guidelines require schools to "provide a safe physical and emotional environment for students".
This includes dealing with cyberbullying and online harassment.
Overall responsibility for the school environment rests with boards of trustees of state and integrated schools, and governing bodies of independent schools.
Through school staff a range of approaches can be taken to foster positive behaviours.
Student behaviour
Guidelines and details of the help available to schools are available on the Ministry of Education website.
Guides and resources to help schools with bullying are available on the Bullying-free NZ website. The site also has help for families and for students.
Advice and details of the help available to schools are available on the Kete website.
Updated: July 2017
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