PENZ awards 2012 (2012)

The Board, following a request from members, decided that all awards would be made at the awards ceremony to be held during the heart of Conference. Delegates were joined at the ceremony by a group of guests invited to the President's Lunch. The guests were a group of senior Physical Educators who contributed to the profession in earlier years and who hail from the Bay of Plenty - Waikato geographical region. Delegates enjoyed having the opportunity to applaud our stalwarts from the past in appreciation for their commitment to move the profession forwards during their years in the workforce.The President's Lunch, a Bob Stothart innovation, is here to stay with delegates requesting more information about attending guests and seeking an opportunity to meet them. The 201 2 Awards were presented by outgoing President Alan Ovens assisted by PENZ Patron, Trevor Garrett.Margot Bowes, Chair of the Awards Committee, spoke briefly about the process that was undertaken and thanked the various panels that had assisted in the judging process. Margot urged members to nominate colleagues and departments for the awards in 201 3 and encouraged teachers to have their senior students enter the essay award.The A.S. Lewis Award: Undergraduate and secondary school students are invited to write an essay around a stated theme, topic or moot, and argue a case in 1 500 words or less. The essay title for 2012 read: Given your understanding and personal experience of the subject, critically discuss what quality Physical Education is. While Albany Senior High School is to be commended for providing all the entries this year, we do hope that we will receive entries from across the country for the 201 3 award as all students are eligible. Rhys Vaughan-Jones is congratulated on his winning essay resulting in his being presented with his cheque and certificate by outgoing PENZ President, Alan Ovens, at a small ceremony to be held at the School.The Te Iho-Takaro Ringawera Award is made by the Board to a recipient who has undertaken golden nuggets of service for PENZ and thus Physical Education at times in areas that may be seen to beleftfieldand invariably away from the limelight. The intention is for the award to be passed on from one recipient to the next. Sadly, the first recipient, Life Member and champion of all the is good in PE, Bob Stothart, was unable to be with us at Conference this year. Alan Ovens undertook to read the citation and make the award to Ray Nixon who during his time working for PENZ long-term partner Sports Distributors, contributed in so many ways to the advantage of PENZ. Alan spoke of Ray's willingness to assist with set-up and pack-down at Conference, his ability to speak to emerging teachers at expos about the value of a PENZ membership, and of his unfailing ability to find that extra spot prize. Ray went beyond the call to add considerable value as a thoroughly committed partner over a protracted period of time.The Outstanding Physical Education Award is presented to an early childhood centre, school, or department that has demonstrated excellence in intra-curricula Physical Education. This award does not include excellence in extracurricula sport or physical activity. In speaking to the Award made to Mangere College, Libby Paterson pointed to the panel's identification of the enormous impact Physical Education is having across the school enjoying equal status with other learning areas and strongly linked to the English department to support students gain literacy credits. The impact of PE on school sport participation and the growth in both student and teacher numbers in PE are further examples of high achievement. NCEA student achievement data has shown significant upward shifts over the last four years and continues to be a focus. Libby commented on the Department's successful kiwisport initiative that is impacting on sport and PE in a cluster of primary schools that feed the College, a project that has been reported on at Conference and published in the journal. …