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Labels should help you find information. For example if you want to know when the next meeting is, click on "meetings".

For information about the pay campaign click on "pay"

WSTA on Moodle

Moodle is an online learning environment being tried out in Sussex Schools and the Open University. It has millions of users worldwide. WSTA has its own Moodle course.
The WSTA Moodle course is a Sackville Moodle course but teachers employed outside Sackville have access to it.

There is what Jonathan Ross would call a rather roundabout and rigmarolish way of doing this.
You need to email wstalearn@yahoo.co.uk from your wsgfl email address. We can then add you to this course.

If you do not have a wsgfl email address then you will be added with the username of your first initial and surname.

This course will have information about the NUT CPD programme and forums about common problems with . . .

* databases and spreadsheets
* word processing
* video
* Moodle - the Modular Object Oriented Digital Learning Environment
* Virtual Learning Environments generally
* Whiteboards
* Staying safe on Facebook
* Anything else you can think of

Click here to join the course

LA Teachers End 24-Day Hunger Strike

In Los Angeles, a group of teachers have ended their twenty-four-day hunger strike to protest budget cuts. The teachers said they will now organize a campaign to recall some members of the Los Angeles Unified School Board. Thousands of Los Angeles teachers may soon be fired as the district faces a $700 million budget gap.

News story from Democracy Now - online news TV programme from America

Helpline or email

More and more members are using email in preference to the helpline. The helpline email is wstalearn and the service provider is @yahoo.co.uk and it is another way to keep in touch with us. You will get a reply as soon as possible.

Posters and Leaflets for the SATS campaign

A poster and leaflets for parents and teachers in the forthcoming SATS campaign can be downloaded.

Click here

UPDATE Brighton Gay Pride

For the first time WSTA will have a stall at Gay Pride on 1st August 2009 in Brighton. More details as we get them.

Keep the fascists out!

That would seem an extraordinary headline to my father who thought Hitler and his ilk had been wiped out by people like him in the war. Still Hitler's heirs, the BNP, are standing for election in the Euro elections and such is the distrust of conventional politicians they may pick up some misguided protest votes.

The NUT policy on this is perfectly clear. The NUT does not endorse any political party but it is opposed to racism and fascism. In this election there are many alternatives including the trade union sponsored "No 2 EU Yes to Democracy" campaign. What we do not want is Hitler's heirs representing us in Europe.



John Tyndall, the BNP founder, was proud of his Nazi uniform.

Meeting on 4 June

The next general meeting of the West Sussex Teachers’ Association will be on Thursday 4th June at 4.30pm at St Philip Howard School, Barnham. The focus of the meeting will be:

Issues from Annual Conference
and
Implementing 'Rarely Cover'

Meeting dates for West Sussex Teachers

We have 96 members on our facebook group. Rather fewer attend meeting of the WSTA. We aim to make the meetings relevant to the needs of teachers in West Sussex and accessible to our members.

These are the provisional dates and venues for our meetings.
Exec meetings start at 10 am and all members with issues which they need to raise with the exec are entitled to attend to raise those issues. Only elected Exec members have a vote.

Exec Meetings
27.06.09 Horsham
12.09.09 Hawth
05.12.09 Arundel Norfolk Arms
30.01.10 CH North Horsham
27.03.10 Hawth

General Meetings are held around the county at different schools and start at 4.30. They are for all members and every member who attends has a vote.

04.06.09 St Philip Howard / Swiss Cottage
01.10.09 Steyning
14.01.10 Oakmeeds
06.03.10 AGM Norfolk Arms

Venues are to be arranged. If they change the blog will change.