Guides for managing your school
Practical guides for first-time principals on systems such as finance, employment, and property.
Understanding school finances
This guide has information on funding sources, keeping accounts, preparing budgets, and reporting school finances.
Planning and reporting: School charters
This guide has information on developing, reviewing, and updating a charter.
Dealing with complaints
This guide will help you to apply simple, broad principles to the way you deal with complaints.
Effective communications
This guide contains suggestions for managing the myriad of everyday communications you are involved in as a principal.
Understanding attendance
This guide focuses on the administration of attendance, attendance levels at your school, and getting beyond the collection of data.
Understanding school employment
This guide has information on payroll, appointing staff, concurrence, and performance.
Understanding school property
This guide has information on property planning, management, and systems.
Primary principals' annual calendar
This calendar will help you to keep a month-by-month overview of what’s ahead so that you can bring coherence to your planning.
Secondary principals' annual calendar
This calendar will help you to keep a month-by-month overview of what’s ahead so that you can bring coherence to your planning.
Starting in a new school
This guide has suggestions to help make the first term a positive one, avoid major issues, and develop good processes.
Managing your time
This guide offers some suggestions to help you to manage your own time and other's time agendas.
Preparing for your next ERO visit
Julia Davidson, principal of Wellington Girls' College, provides practical advice for principals who are preparing for a visit from the Education Review Office.
