Staffing for attached units or attached teachers

The provision of staffing for an attached unit and/or an attached teacher is displayed in the relevant section of the staffing entitlement notice.

All attached teachers must be paid from Teachers’ Salaries (TS).

Activity Centres, Teen Parent Units, Kura Teina

Please refer to Appendix 1: Attached Units and Satellite Classes for details on how Activity Centres, Teen Parent are resourced.

Special purpose units

A number of boards have units that have been set up for specific purposes. Students from a number of schools may attend the unit for courses of varying length. An example would be a unit that is off the school site but under the control of the school's board. These units are staffed in accordance with a special agreement, usually as the result of a specific ministerial approval.

Further details may be found in Appendix 1.

Attached teachers

Each of the following full time positions entitles an employing board to additional staffing support time of 0.05 FTTE:

Resource Teachers of Māori (RTM).
Resource Teachers of Learning and Behaviour (RTLB).
Resource Teachers of Hearing Impaired (RHI).
Resource Teachers of Vision Impaired (RVI).
Resource Teachers Literacy (RTLit)
Resource Teachers Literacy Māori (RTLitM).
Supplementary Learning Support (SLS) teachers where they are employed by a school whose Supplementary Learning Support staffing allocated by the Ministry is 0.6 FTTE or greater

This is identified on staffing notices as "Support Time Allowance". The following positions are also entitled to payment of a salary unit:

RTM
RTLB
RHI
RVI
RTLit
RTLit (Māori).

The salary units are identified on the entitlement notice with the named teacher occupying the attached position. These salary units are only payable to the named teacher; they are not part of the board’s entitlement.

Additional salary units for associate principal (secondary)

Secondary schools with a principal grading roll of 1401-1600 have additional resourcing provided as nine additional salary units.

Secondary schools with a principal grading roll of over 1600 have additional resourcing provided as 12 additional salary units.

Associate principal designated position

The designated position of associate principal in secondary schools changed from the beginning of 2001.

Incumbent associate principals had their positions and salaries protected. When an associate principal receiving salary protection vacates their position, additional salary units will be provided to the board if the principal grading roll exceeds 1401 as detailed above.