Welcome to our first edition of TOPICS for 2022

It is a great privilege to be elected as ACPPA President for 2022-2024 and I would like to extend an invitation to all our Principals to contact me should you want to discuss any topics that may affect us all at the national level. It is often the local context which informs what we do at ACPPA in ensuring our collective voice is heard where it needs to be heard.

This year we welcome seven new ACPPA Directors:

Kathy Neely and Mark Bateman NSW

Annette Quirk and Andrew Colley WA

Megan Richardson TAS

Gavin Rick QLD

Megan Evans  NT

Our first Board meeting of the year was held earlier this week around the following topics.

• Due to my election as President we used the first meeting to elect a second Vice President.  Congratulations to Phil Schultz from SA on his election.
• ACARA requests that we nominate an ACPPA representative to participate in the quarterly Parent and Principals Forum. Our rep will be Liz Keogh from SA.
• Our 2022 -2024 Strategic Planning process continued with the Board deciding on 3 priority areas for our focus.

Catholic Advocacy         

Member Engagement       

Board Growth and Development

These areas will now be explored further and a set of impact statements will be refined.

• The Board endorsed a set of Risk Register policies to mitigate any risks to our Association.
• Our national benchmarking survey will again be conducted this year after a break in 2021 due to the pandemic. The survey will be open for you to complete on 9th May. We encourage you to join in this short survey as it assists us with our strategic planning.

Please check our website for full contact details of our Board.

Regards 

Peter Cutrona 

President