Thursday, January 31

Apply for Jobs



Start applying for jobs, kids. Earning Snidges is a big part of what we do in Q Zealand, but they don't grow on trees!!! You will be able to earn Snidges by getting a job, by completing work on time, doing your homefun and even starting up your own business.


This is a great chance to practice some parts of being an adult - earning, doing jobs, saving, spending.

You might make some mistakes, but it's better to do it now than when you get into the real world.

Type your job application (see the other post for layout) on a Word document, attach it to an email and send it to me tcurrie@riverdale.school.nz

Success Criteria for writing a persuasive job application letter:
  1. Very few errors in your writing
  2. Use the correct business letter layout
  3. Be persuasive about why you would be good at the job, not why you want it.
  4. Have at least three paragraphs - introduction and what job you'd like, reasons I should consider you for the job and a conclusion

If you want to be a chief anything, apply for the regular job eg if you think you'd make a great Chief Accountant, apply to be an accountant etc.

Go for it.

Job Application format

Quiddage Job Vacancies - QZealand Jobs

Business Manager S10.00

  • Design a spread sheet for entering business names and business partners
  • Hand out Enterprise Application forms when asked
  • Keep an up to date record of all the businesses and business owners
  • Give frequent updates to Gringots bank manager
  • Collect business setup fees from new businesses owners and hand to Tee Cee
  • Keep all business applications


Publisher

  • Design a spread sheet for keeping track of Quiddage related printing jobs
  • Agree on costs with Tee Cee and Q Controller (S30 - colour, S5 - b&w)
  • Ensure people report any printing to you
  • Bill business owners on a regular basis
  • Remuneration: 50-50 split between publisher and Tee Cee


Caterer S10.00

  • Make lunch box available on the sink bench on lunch delivery days (usually Fridays)
  • At the end of roll call, ask the class if there are any further orders
  • Take the lunch orders to the office, or if there are none, let office staff knows
  • collect the lunches from the lunches van at the car park
  • Distribute the lunches
  • Return lunch box to the van


Chair Leader

  • Put chairs up/down for students who are absent
  • Grott students who don’t put up their chairs at the end of the day (S1)
  • Grott students who leave their chairs out, thereby blocking others from passing their desks
  • Put grotts directly onto board list
  • add grotts to your board tally


Checklist Charlie S15.00

  • Collect completed work, making sure it is all oriented the same way
  • Peg the work together and store it in a box in the resource room
  • Mark it off on a class checklist
  • Remind students who haven’t completed task
  • Report to Tee Cee when required


Climate Controller S10.00

  • Open the windows at the start of the day
  • Open or close windows during the day as required
  • Learn (from Tee Cee) how to operate gas heater
  • If required, open extra windows and doors (and close them at the end of the day)
  • Decide on positioning of fan – and turn off or on when required

Communications Consultant S15.00

  • Deliver messages or other items to other parts of the school quickly and without fuss
  • Pick up messages or other items as required
  • Take absentee names to the office

Computer Help Desk (chief) S15.00

  • Find out what strengths help desk people have
  • Make a chart (on computer) for Q Zealanders to refer to
  • Help students who need computer assistance

Computer Help Desk S10.00

  • Undergo and pass training course
  • Assist computer users when required

Daily Notice Reporter S10

  • Open up the daily notices at 9 am
  • Read out any notices that relate to us

Distribution Agent (chief) S15.00

  • Receive items for distribution; give equally to other distribution agents
  • Assist with distribution
  • Redistribute answer sheets when required
  • Receive collected items from distribution team
  • Place in neat pile and give to TC
  • Work quickly and efficiently to ensure minimal time wastage


Distribution Agents S10.00

  • Receive handouts from chief distribution agent and distribute to QZealanders
  • Collect items from QZealanders and hand to chief distribution agent


Encouragers S15 (depending on effectiveness)

  • Look out for reasons and ways to support and encourage Q Zealanders
  • Keep watch for any Q Zealanders who may be feeling sad. Find ways to cheer them up.


(E.S.P) Environmental Spy Person.

  • Check to see that all shoes are put neatly outside (in pairs, against the wall)
  • Check that all bags are closed, that they are hung on hooks or placed neatly against the wall
  • check that no rollerblades, scooters or skateboards are left outside the classroom
  • Grott will be S5 if any students are caught not following these systems - This will be taken from the board chart of the offending student and added directly to your tally


Green Team S15

  • Empty Room 13 Recycling bin on Mondays and Thursdays
  • Empty the Recycling bins from the office area

Green Team Leader S20

  • Help the Green Team
  • When Mr Merriman tells you, ring Full Circle to collect our paper
  • Make sure the sacks get put out
  • Make sure the empty sacks are returned

Health Officer S10.00

  • Get a bandage or icepack for people in need
  • Return the icepack 15 minutes later


Librarian (Chief) S15.00

  • Supervise and assist librarians
  • Follow up overdue books


Librarians S10.00

  • Locate and issue topic books for TC or class
  • Arrange topic books on classroom library shelf
  • Keep library shelf tidy
  • Return and shelve classroom books as required
  • Issue and return students’ books during library time


Mr or Miss Staple S15.00

  • Staple, pin or tape work around the classroom as required
  • Maintain displayed work by re-stapling etc. when necessary
  • Remove wall displays
  • Distribute the items to their owners

Music Roadie S10.00

  • Get Tee Cee’s guitar when required
  • Take it to school singing, assemblies, Hui whanau etc…if needed
  • Put the guitar away


N.P (notices person) S10.00

  • collect returned notices
  • Keep a list of who has returned their notices, along with details such as parent helpers etc.
  • Check to see who hasn’t returned theirs, and remind them after roll call


Odd Jobber S5.00

  • Perform odd jobs as required


Police Chief S20.00

  • Make up Police ID badge
  • Be the person cases are reported to
  • Make up case report book
  • Train police to fill out case reports
  • Supervise the police force
  • Report case outcomes to TeeCee when required


Police S10.00

  • Solve police cases allocated to you by the police chief
  • Interview witnesses and suspects
  • Report findings to the police chief
  • Fill in a case report for each investigation
  • Be alert



Quiz Master or Miss S15.00

  • Write names of Quiz Contestants on the board
  • Draw a card to establish starter
  • Record winners
  • Inform TeeCee when finals and grand finals are required
  • Setup finals and grand final

TC’s P.A. S25.00

  • Answer the telephone
  • Take messages if necessary
  • Check P.A box several times a day
  • Delegate P.A. box contents to the appropriate people


Hat Person

  • Grott (S2) anyone who wears their hat inside Q Zealand. Take from their tally and add directly to yours

Couch Carrot

  • Grott (S5)anyone who sits on the couch without earning it

Q Zealand Times Editor S50.00 per 4 pages published

  • Edit the Q Zealand Times newspaper
  • Be responsible for journalists
  • Encourage people to send in stories and articles

Q Zealand Journalists S20.00 per article accepted

  • Write articles for the Q Zealand Times

Q Zealand Times Photographer S5.00 for each picture accepted

  • Take photos for the Q Zealand Times, using the digital camera


Q Zealand Times Accountant S15.00

  • Keep track of pay for Q Zealand Times staff and Q Zealanders who have articles accepted
  • Notify the chief payroll officer monthly
  • Send accounts out to advertisers

Resource Regulator (Chief) S15.00

  • Supervise and assist Resource Regulators
  • Make decisions about the upkeep of the resource room
  • Take responsibility for the tidiness of the resource room

Resource Regulators S10.00

  • Access and return resource room equipment for Tee Cee and QZealanders
  • Keep resource room tidy and well organised

Sign Writer S15.00

  • Write up notices on boards as required
  • Keep conference lists organised and rewrite when necessary
  • Write up strikes if necessary
  • Re-do permanent whiteboard markings when needed

Wordsmith S5.00

  • Write any words discussed in class discussions in the clear file

Time Keeper S15.00

  • Set alarm when needed for deadlines or school events etc.

Chief Technician S35.00

  • Be familiar with technical equipment (radio, TV, data projector, cameras, sound system, microphone and microphone stand)
  • Set up and put away any technical equipment, including for other classes when required
  • Train the apprentice/s

Apprentice Technicians S10.00

  • Assist the Chief Technician


Sports Resource Guys S10.00

  • Get P.E. Gear for classroom use
  • Setup sports and fitness activities as required
  • Return gear to correct places in the P.E. Shed
  • Tidy P.E Shed (S20 per lunchtime tidy up to once a week)

Scribe S35.00

  • Copy ideas from discussions that Tee Cee writes on the board
  • Type it on the computer

Miss/Mr Clean it S30.00

  • Clean-up jobs around the classroom


Art advisers S20.00 per art session

  • Setup/pack up Art equipment
  • Frame and name art works when needed
  • Help TC put art on the wall
  • Help to hand out art to its owners when it comes down from the wall

Quiddage Job Vacancies - Quiddage / Banking-related

Banking Employment

Q Controller S80.00

  • Advise Tee Cee on all the matters relating to Quiddage.
  • Supervise Payroll and Banking.
  • Assist Payroll and Bank staff where required.
  • Report status of Payroll, accounting and banking to tee Cee on request.
  • Ensure all the bank jobs are completed accurately and efficiently.
  • Help train Gringots bank Manager.
  • Assist (where necessary) in training of Gringots staff.
  • Refine Q Note banking and withdrawal systems in conjunction with Tee Cee and the Gringots bank manager.
  • Revise and improve Gringots banking systems

Gringots Bank Manager S60.00

  • Learn and understand QNote banking and withdrawal systems
  • Revise and improve banking systems in conjunction with Q controller, chief accountant, chief payroll officer and head teller.
  • Train Gringots bank staff

Chief Accountant S40.00

  • Learn and understand QNote banking and withdrawal system
  • Revise and improve banking systems
  • Supervise accountants
  • Make up fair weekly rosters for accountants on market days
  • Ensure banking is always kept up to date
  • make sure any banking is organised and tidied up before leaving
  • check and double check for accuracy of banking
  • Work confidentially

Gringots Bank Accountants S30.00

  • Learn to operate the Gringots computerized banking systems
  • Set up accounts for all Q Zealanders and all businesses
  • enter payroll information
  • enter deposits and withdrawals in personal and businesses
  • calculate equal division of business profits and losses
  • calculate tax
  • work confidentially
  • fill in statements for Q Zealanders and businesses of their account balances regularly

Chief Bank Teller S30.00

  • Make sure there are plenty of QNotes, withdrawal and deposit slips
  • Get the QNotes out and put them away at the end of each market day
  • Check with Tee Cee, and then print off withdrawal and deposit slips if required. Notify Tee Cee if QNotes are required
  • Supervise tellers
  • Make sure customer service is excellent
  • Make up fair weekly rosters for tellers on Quiddage market days

Gringots Bank Tellers S20.00

  • Distribute Q Notes to bank clients when presented with withdrawal slips
  • Assist clients with banking when necessary
  • Keep counter and withdrawal/deposit slips orderly
  • Help to process deposits and withdrawal slips

Chief Payroll Officer S25.00

  • Keep an up to date computerised record of all salaries
  • Train payroll staff
  • Supervise payroll staff
  • Help payroll staff where required
  • Check the work of payroll staff to ensure accuracy
  • Ensure payslips are completed fortnightly
  • Ensure there are sufficient payroll forms
  • Work confidentially


Payroll Officers S20.00

  • Collect Quiddage totals from classroom white board each Friday
  • Write the totals neatly on a class list and hand to the bank manager
  • Calculate salaries fortnightly, enter information on payslips, hand to chief payroll officer

Independence Licenses

Last year Matt came up with this great idea to help Q Zealanders to be more independent. The rest of the class helped out with the details.

Level 0 (nobody has ever been on this level)
-Work within 10m of TC
-Ask permission to go to the bathroom (TC will appoint someone to chaperone)
-Sit outside the staffroom at morning tea and wait for TC to take you back to class
-Stand outside the door at 9.00 and 2.00 bell times until asked to come inside
-No individual computer logon rights
-No internet or email access

Level 1 (everyone starts here – even Old Zealanders)
-Always work within sight of TC
-Ask permission to go to the bathroom
-Individual computer logon rights
-Internet and email access – with TC’s OK

Level 2 (most people should reach this level by half way through Term One)
-Always work in the same classroom as TC (not necessarily within sight)
-No need for bathroom permission
-May run messages with TC’s OK
-Individual computer logon rights
-Internet and email access – with TC’s OK

Level 3 (Most of you should be at this level by the end of the year)
-Work in other classrooms or areas of the school (with TC’s permission) if necessary
-Individual computer logon rights
-Internet and email access – with TC’s OK

Level 4 (only two people can hold this license at a time)
-May occasionally accompany a Level 2 license holder if working in another classroom (with TC’s OK)
-Individual computer logon rights
-Internet and email access – with TC’s OK


We will agree on independence success criteria as a class.

Wednesday, January 30

Welcome to 2008

Kia ora students and whanau, welcome to Room 13, 2008.
Check our blog regularly because there will be lots of information about what you need to know.

2007 / 2008

I tried, but was not able to delete our 2007 blog posts.
Everything below this point is 2007, everything above it is 2008.