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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The charter school story continues to unfold with our first
(00:03):
online charter school. Caters for those facing geographic barriers are
disengagement from traditional model, social challenges, all the usual stuff
for charter schools. Target rolls two hundred initially class sizes
of twenty regular school term apply. Sarah Boyle is the
principle of the new Artira Infinite Academy enders with us
this morning, Sorrah, morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now, this is a link to Crimson and Crimson already
do this to some degree online, don't they.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
They have a private school online. Yes, I have a
couple of private schools, but this is quite different. This
is an amazing opportunity for us to use our experience
in the online space by partnering with government to make
sure that learning is accessible to every ambitious learner across
New Zealand, irrespective of their postcode.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's my point. My point being that you're already up
and running on the tech side of the equation, so
you know what you're doing, so this isn't some sort
of strange experiment that may or may not work.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
That's right, and we're using our experience to make sure
that this you know, it's off the ground. It's an
amazing experience for these young people.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Difficulty with Charter versus private is that in private you've
got people willing and able to be there. Under charter,
part of that story is you've got people who have
struggled in the system. How are you going to work
that out alongside people who may just be in your
class because they're in a rural or remote location.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
We're going to make sure that the timetable is engaging.
We have access to high quality teachers across all of
New Zealand, and we're going to make sure that there
are systems and processes in place so that our young
people when they come to the school, they're excited to
be part of our community. They're excited to build relationships
and to actually approach and engage in their learning in
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a new and innovative way and hopefully in ways that
will meet their needs in the way that they haven't
been met previously.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
What's the demand? How many people are lining up for this?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, the announcement was made yesterday and we've already got
sbstantial number of people who are inquiring, with a wide
range of reasons for those inquiries. So we're really excited
to be going on the road for a road show
starting fourth of November through to the twelfth of November
from Kerry Carey right through to Queenstown and many places
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in between. And we will open enrollments on the twelfth
of November and it will be first come, first serve basis,
So check out our website and see what you've got
to do to come and meet us.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I was going to say, is there an element of
cherry picking going on there or not as far as
students A.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Definitely not. Definitely not. There's no preference, there's no cherry picking.
It is most certainly open to absolutely any learner across
New Zealand and all they need to do is get
onto our website and when the enrollment's open on the
twelfth of November and make an application.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What have you got KPI wise in terms of results
for the government to look out to see whether this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Works, as with all charter schools and all schools. In fact,
we will be setting our KPIs in partnership with the
Chess School Agency and we will need to find out
who our learners are and what their needs are before
we can really hone in on those. But obviously, academic excellence,
achievement and progress are top of the.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
List for US Fantastic and recruitment of teachers. Have you
done that or will do that? And do you anticipate
any issues around that?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, we're in the process. We have a really strong
senior leadership team with experience across a range of schools
and a lot of them with experience in the online space.
And we're currently open to advertising for teachers and Dean
and Esenko, So if there are any teachers out there,
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this is an amazing opportunity for you to be part
of something innovative and there's many benefits from being online.
We encourage you to go and check out our jobs board.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Fantastic. We're sure the very best with them. A big
fan of the charter schools in general. Syrah Boyleblove Infinite
Academy part of the Charter school program. For more from
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