Chapter 2: School staffing
Teacher staffing is one of the ways the Government ensures the delivery of the curriculum to New Zealand students. An Education (School Staffing) Order in Council is made annually under Section 91H of the Education Act 1989 and establishes the entitlement and limitations on staffing. Teacher Collective Agreements also help determine some staffing provisions.
Entitlement staffing is formula driven, and is derived from year level rolls. It provides school boards with a measure of security and stability that enables them to make long-term decisions about providing for students’ curriculum and pastoral care needs. Above entitlement, additional staffing is provided in response to identified specific needs. Teachers may also be employed from a board’s operational funding and locally raised funds.
The Banking Staffing policy allows boards flexibility to manage their annual staffing entitlement and usage.
In this section
- The staffing cycle
- Provides a summary of the school staffing cycle.
- Provisional staffing round
- Information about the provisional staffing round which provides boards with a minimum level of entitlement staffing for the following year
- Staffing reductions/Surplus staffing criteria
- Information about surplus staffing including conditions for funding, criteria and timelines
- The 1 March roll confirmation process
- Information on the 1 March roll confirmation process
- Changes to staffing during the year
- Information and contact details regarding staffing changes during the year
- Entitlement staffing overview
- Entitlement staffing is made up of three components - curriculum, management and additional guidance staffing
- Curriculum staffing: Primary curriculum (years 1-8)
- Step by step guide to calculate primary curriculum staffing
- Curriculum staffing: Technology staffing (years 7-8)
- Information on technology staffing and how it is calculated
- Curriculum staffing: Secondary curriculum
- Information about how to calculate curriculum base staffing for secondary schools
- Management staffing
- Information on management staffing weightings and calculations
- Guidance staffing
- Information on the calculation of guidance staffing
- Salary units, senior and middle management allowances
- Information on salary units, senior and middle management allowances, calculations and allocations
- Special education staffing ORS resourcing
- Information about the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme (ORS) for students with special education needs
- Additional staffing
- Information on the Reading Recovery Allowance, Classroom Release Time and other additional staffing
- Staffing transfer
- Information on new, recurring, updating and ending staffing transfer agreements
- Teacher specific staffing allowances
- Information regarding teacher specific staffing allowances
- Staffing for attached units or attached teachers
- Information on attached units and attached teachers
- Principal salary grading
- Information on principals' salary gradings and exclusions
- Employment of teachers by boards from Operational Funding
- The rules regarding employment of teachers from Operational Funding
- Banking Entitlement Staffing
- Information on the rules and monitoring of Banking Staffing
- Staffing enquiries
- The contact details for different types of enquiry about staffing
- Chapter 2: Appendices
- Information on Teen Parent Units, Activity Centres, Kura Teina and Alternative Education and frequently asked questions about Banking Staffing