DECEMBER 14 - 2011
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Wellsford Primary’s new deputy principal by Joanne Speechly
Wellsford Primary School’s acting deputy principal is now the permanent deputy principal, and Paul Moore is delighted at the chance to grow personally and professionally Paul will manage the entire senior school and continue as a teacher and says he is looking forward to the challenges and rewards ahead. The native West Aucklander and father of two started teaching in the 1980s, after an already successful career at the Bank of New Zealand and as a stock and commodity trader. However, Paul knew that teaching was his first and foremost passion and applied for training at Epsom. “In my first year of the three-year teacher training, I married Kristine Hay and after securing my first guaranteed teaching position at Manuka Primary, in Glenfield, I began cementing a passion and enthusiasm for teaching young minds. “I remained at Manuka for 10 years and in this time I was coaching school softball, touch, mini ball, rugby and was a keen supporter of school fundraising — especially running discos. “Following the birth of our second child, Jonathan, the busyness of the North Shore started to prompt a change of lifestyle. We started to take day trips north to Warkworth and
later Wellsford and I eventually sent my CV to Wellsford Primary and was offered a permanent position, sight unseen. “Fourteen years have now passed and the students’ enthusiasm and energy have been a constant reward in my life. “When you meet past pupils as young adults, who bound up to you and talk of their time in your life, it dawns on you just how much you have influenced their lives. I love to see children grow socially and academically. “Life is not all teaching, though, my family and I actively run a small lifestyle block just out of town, shepherding a small woolly flock. “I am involved with intermediate and senior cricket at the weekends, regularly support my wife as kitchen hand in her capacity of caterer to Wellsford’s Squash and Golf club and am always keen to be involved in the community days on the Shore, through City Impact Church. “As Wellsford School’s new senior Deputy Principal, I look forward to the challenges and rewards of 2012 and beyond.”
Paul Moore — looking forward to the challenges
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