Events / Student Competitions / Awards

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Language Perfect World Championships 2011   Certificates of Excellence  International Languages Week

Events 2012

end of January - Term 1 2012

15 February - Certificates of Excellence due

28 February - Deadline for "Win you membership back" for 2012 and applications for Excellence in Teaching award and Pete and Eunice Beveridge Award.

31 March - 2012 Membership due

5 April - Conference early bird fee due.

1 - 4 July - NZALT Biennial Conference in Rotorua.

Click here to view a Post-it calendar of NZALT planned events for 2012.

Please get in touch with the webmaster if you wish to add any language events to this calendar.

Lobby to maintain our Regional Language Advisors

School Support Services (Regional Language Advisors) to cease from 2012

Please inform colleagues of this drastic change. This will affect your budgets, your access to PD, courses provided, in-school support, online resourcing, support for LangSem and Conference, information dissemination, support for NCEA alignment, cluster meetings and workshops. Urgent action needs to happen.

As a teacher, department or cluster we urge you to do the following:

Write to MPs and other interested groups.

If you would like guidelines on what to write click on our Proforma Letter (doc) and make sure that you read Protocols for Writing to MPs (pdf)

You can modify the letter and write as a constituant to the following:

• your local MP click here for a pdf of MPs' contact details as of 3 October 2011.
• the Minister of Education, Anne Tolley tolleywhk@xtra.co.nz
• SLAs
• Education Spokespeople for political parties.

  Labour: Sue Moroney,sue.moroney@parliament.govt.nz

  Associate Spokesperson Kelvin Davis Kelvin.davis@parliament.govt.nz

  Associate Spokesperson Carol Beaumont carol.beaumont@parliament.govt.nz

  National: Anne Tolley tolleywhk@xtra.co.nz

  Act: Heather Roy heather.roy@act.org.nz

  Associate Minister of Education: Rodney Hide r.hide@ministers.govt.nz

  Alliance: Richard Wallis

  waiting for email reply from party secretary Maori Party: Pita Sharples Pita.Sharples@parliament.govt.nz

  Green Party: Catherine Delahunty Catherine.delahunty@parliament.govt.nz

Awards for Members : Excellence in Teaching Languages, Leadership in Languages& Membership Award

For further information and a nomination form click here

Our Conferences and LangSems

NZALT holds an annual Conference every second year and LangSems(Language Seminars) in each region every other year.

Conference years are even numbered years and LangSems are odd numbered years.

To find out about our next Conference click here.

To find out when and where our next LangSem is click here.

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Student Competition 2011 : NZALT/Language Perfect Design a Badge

This year's competition was to design a BADGE that celebrates your language. To order badges from this year's competition click here.

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Student Competition 2010 : Design a Pen

Click here to see the winning entries from previous student competitions.

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Eunice Beveridge Memorial Prize for French and Japanese

This is awarded in conjunction with the NZALT Student Competition each year. For further information click here

Language Perfect World Championships First500 Promotion

9 -16 September 2011

Students represented their class, school and country in the largest languages event in history! Participating schools should have received their certificates by now if they contacted Language Perfect as requested. This event was previously known as the Language Olympics. For more information visit: http://www.languageperfect.com/worldchamps/first500promotion.html. Or visit the official Language Perfect World Championships website: http://www.languageperfect.com/worldchamps/siteshell1.swf

NZALT Certificate of Excellence

Rationale

Guidelines

1. Applications for the certificate are to be directed to the local Regional Officer. The deadline for applications to be 15 February 2012.

2. Certificates are for students in Years 11 to 13.

3. These certificates are intended to recognise the achievement of second-language learners only.

4. The student's teacher must be a current member of NZALT.

5. Applications are to be completed on the spreadsheet provided (only available in Term One each year) and must state:
     a.  candidate's name (correctly spelt)
     b.  language learned and citation;
     c.  school attended;
     d.  name(s) of teacher(s) making application;
     e.  name of school principal;
     f.  NZALT region of the school.

6. Eligibility : a student is eligible to receive a Certificate of Excellence if s/he has gained, in a language in any one year, at least: at NCEA Level 1 14 or more credits at Excellence level, and at least 3 credits at Excellence from externally and 3 credits at Excellence from internally assessed standards. (The same requirements as NZQA's Course Endorsement at Excellence level) or     at NCEA Level 2 / Level 3 three Excellences or     Cambridge International Examinations A or A*

Please rename the file with your school name and e-mail it to your Regional Officer by the 15 February. We then send the details to the printers for the certificates to be printed and delivered before the start of Term 2.