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Speaker 1: The charter school story continues to unfold with our first

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Speaker 1: online charter school. Caters for those facing geographic barriers are

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Speaker 1: disengagement from traditional model, social challenges, all the usual stuff

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Speaker 1: for charter schools. Target rolls two hundred initially class sizes

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Speaker 1: of twenty regular school term apply. Sarah Boyle is the

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Speaker 1: principle of the new Artira Infinite Academy enders with us

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Speaker 1: this morning, Sorrah, morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Now, this is a link to Crimson and Crimson already

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Speaker 1: do this to some degree online, don't they.

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Speaker 2: They have a private school online. Yes, I have a

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Speaker 2: couple of private schools, but this is quite different. This

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Speaker 2: is an amazing opportunity for us to use our experience

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Speaker 2: in the online space by partnering with government to make

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Speaker 2: sure that learning is accessible to every ambitious learner across

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Speaker 2: New Zealand, irrespective of their postcode.

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Speaker 1: That's my point. My point being that you're already up

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Speaker 1: and running on the tech side of the equation, so

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Speaker 1: you know what you're doing, so this isn't some sort

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Speaker 1: of strange experiment that may or may not work.

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Speaker 2: That's right, and we're using our experience to make sure

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Speaker 2: that this you know, it's off the ground. It's an

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Speaker 2: amazing experience for these young people.

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Speaker 1: Difficulty with Charter versus private is that in private you've

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Speaker 1: got people willing and able to be there. Under charter,

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Speaker 1: part of that story is you've got people who have

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Speaker 1: struggled in the system. How are you going to work

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Speaker 1: that out alongside people who may just be in your

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Speaker 1: class because they're in a rural or remote location.

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Speaker 2: We're going to make sure that the timetable is engaging.

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Speaker 2: We have access to high quality teachers across all of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand, and we're going to make sure that there

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Speaker 2: are systems and processes in place so that our young

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Speaker 2: people when they come to the school, they're excited to

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Speaker 2: be part of our community. They're excited to build relationships

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Speaker 2: and to actually approach and engage in their learning in

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Speaker 2: a new and innovative way and hopefully in ways that

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Speaker 2: will meet their needs in the way that they haven't

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Speaker 2: been met previously.

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Speaker 1: What's the demand? How many people are lining up for this?

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Speaker 2: Well, the announcement was made yesterday and we've already got

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Speaker 2: sbstantial number of people who are inquiring, with a wide

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Speaker 2: range of reasons for those inquiries. So we're really excited

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Speaker 2: to be going on the road for a road show

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Speaker 2: starting fourth of November through to the twelfth of November

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Speaker 2: from Kerry Carey right through to Queenstown and many places

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Speaker 2: in between. And we will open enrollments on the twelfth

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Speaker 2: of November and it will be first come, first serve basis,

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Speaker 2: So check out our website and see what you've got

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Speaker 2: to do to come and meet us.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, is there an element of

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Speaker 1: cherry picking going on there or not as far as

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Speaker 1: students A.

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Speaker 2: Definitely not. Definitely not. There's no preference, there's no cherry picking.

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Speaker 2: It is most certainly open to absolutely any learner across

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Speaker 2: New Zealand and all they need to do is get

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Speaker 2: onto our website and when the enrollment's open on the

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Speaker 2: twelfth of November and make an application.

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Speaker 1: What have you got KPI wise in terms of results

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Speaker 1: for the government to look out to see whether this thing.

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Speaker 2: Works, as with all charter schools and all schools. In fact,

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Speaker 2: we will be setting our KPIs in partnership with the

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Speaker 2: Chess School Agency and we will need to find out

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Speaker 2: who our learners are and what their needs are before

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Speaker 2: we can really hone in on those. But obviously, academic excellence,

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Speaker 2: achievement and progress are top of the.

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Speaker 1: List for US Fantastic and recruitment of teachers. Have you

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Speaker 1: done that or will do that? And do you anticipate

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Speaker 1: any issues around that?

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Speaker 2: No, we're in the process. We have a really strong

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Speaker 2: senior leadership team with experience across a range of schools

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Speaker 2: and a lot of them with experience in the online space.

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Speaker 2: And we're currently open to advertising for teachers and Dean

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Speaker 2: and Esenko, So if there are any teachers out there,

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Speaker 2: this is an amazing opportunity for you to be part

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Speaker 2: of something innovative and there's many benefits from being online.

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Speaker 2: We encourage you to go and check out our jobs board.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. We're sure the very best with them. A big

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Speaker 1: fan of the charter schools in general. Syrah Boyleblove Infinite

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Speaker 1: Academy part of the Charter school program. For more from

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