Ngunguru School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within twelve months of the Education Review Office and Ngunguru School working in Te Ara Huarau, an improvement evaluation approach used in most English Medium State and State Integrated Schools. For more information about Te Ara Huarau see ERO’s website. www.ero.govt.nz

Context

Ngunguru School is located on the Tūtūkākā Coast in Te Tai Tokerau and provides education for ākonga in Years 0 to 8. A new principal was appointed in Term 2 2023. The school’s vision is “Our school is our waka and learning is our journey”.

Ngunguru School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• Hiranga: excellence 
• Ahurei: celebrating each child
• Mahi tahi tātou: working together.

You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Ngunguru School’s website.

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well schoolwide data assessment practices are informing teaching, learning and planning for continuous improvement.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• ensure progress and achievement outcomes are equitable and sustained for all ākonga
• support continuous improvement and a culture of high expectations and excellence
• further develop schoolwide processes that support teacher capability to use data to inform teaching and learning.

The school expects to see:

• confident, connected ākonga achieving to their highest potential
• teachers using appropriate assessment consistently well to inform individual learning requirements
• consistently relevant, challenging and meaningful teaching and learning.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate how well schoolwide data assessment practices are informing teaching, learning and planning for continuous improvement:

• leadership is focussed on strengthening and refining conditions, structures, systems and processes to support ākonga progress and achievement
• teachers and leaders are building professional capability and collective capacity for ongoing improvement and innovation to enhance learner outcomes
• the Board engages with achievement information that supports ongoing improvement for all ākonga.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• targeted professional learning to build teacher capability in the use of data to inform teaching and learning
• embedding consistent assessment practices to improve the quality of data and analysis.

ERO’s role will be to support the school in its evaluation for improvement cycle to improve outcomes for all learners. ERO will support the school in reporting their progress to the community. The next public report on ERO’s website will be a Te Ara Huarau | School Evaluation Report and is due within three years. 

Shelley Booysen
Director of Schools 

19 February 2024

About the School

The Education Counts website provides further information about the school’s student population, student engagement and student achievement.  educationcounts.govt.nz/home