Staff Meeting part 2

Yet another staff meeting cancelled, so, when did they tell us, this morning at morning briefing. "Leaders of learning", I am really finding this difficult now. "Leaders at slacking off and getting the HOD's to do there dirty work." At the end of last term they reminded us that the first Monday back we had a staff meeting. Ok, I wonder what will be discussed, as all the HOD's were invited into school in the holidays for a day long session on IIP, Investors in People. Speakers where invited in to talk to the HOD's on making the departments a more friendlier and to provide a team environment.

No staff meeting, next week is a department meeting for us to moderate our latest NCEA assessments, that could have been carried out this week and the information given back to our students so they know how good or bad they have done. The ability to get the resits out of the way before the Mid-Year Assessments start in week 4.
Also I overheard another department discussing how annoying it is to have the staff meeting cancelled, as they are involved in the secondary numeracy project. To get the information required out now would be beneficial to them and the students, same thing assessment weeks are soon coming up.
And after school detention was listed in he notices, the AP stood up at morning briefing and apologised for the notice that was in there, shouldn't have been in there and to not read it out to the students. The table that i sit at thought that the after school detention should have been run as there was no staff meeting after school and that the AP should have taken it.

It will soon get to the point of when a staff meeting is on, that the response will be, "oh was there a staff meeting on, I thought it was cancelled as the rest of them have been this year."