Internal reviews

EOTC topics

• Replaced the list of forms at the bottom of some topics with a link directly to the EOTC Forms topic.

EOTC Overseas Trips

• Updated PDF link name to Decision guide for funding student overseas travel.

Implementation Audits and Reports

• Clarified and updated actions and added these topics to the schedule:
  • Reporting and Recording Accidents
  • Cyberbullying
  • Computer Security and Cybersecurity
  • Monitoring and Auditing School Bus
  • Literacy Support
• Removed Appraisal of Teaching Staff from the schedule.

Performance Management

• Updated to take into account the removal of appraisal of teaching staff from legislation, and the implementation of the new professional growth cycle.

Professional Growth Cycle

• This is a new topic that replaces Appraisal of Teaching Staff.
• The Appraisal Process, Attestation, and Review an Appraisal are now obsolete topics.
  • Some of the information from the Attestation topic is now covered in this topic.

Attendance Dues and Other Income

• Replaced references to Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975 with Education and Training Act 2020

Covid-19 Information

• Renamed from Coronavirus Outbreak.
• Updated introductory paragraph.
• Added a sentence about recording visits via the NZ COVID Tracer app or manual register.

School Swimming Pool

• Added "We follow our school's Sun Protection policy when using the school pool." to the end of the second paragraph.
• Added Sun Protection as a Related topic.

Swimming Off Site

• By the end of January 2021, we will add a reference to sun protection, i.e. "Our school's Sun Protection policy and EOTC policies and procedures apply to this activity."

Visitors

• Added a sentence about recording visits via the NZ COVID Tracer app or manual register.

Catholic School Enrolment
Integrated School Enrolment

• This updated topic allows Catholic and other state-integrated schools to meet requirements about the transparency of their enrolment process for both preference and non-preference students.
• Also updated reference to the Education and Training Act 2020.

Catholic School Enrol a Student

• Updated "card" to "certificate".

Child Protection

• Added a section about external agency interviews.
• For Catholic schools, added a statement about following the Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand Safeguarding Policy, and a link to this resource.

Smokefree Schools

• Updated to include "no vaping" in line with the amended Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990.