Tikipunga Primary School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within eight months of the Education Review Office and Tikipunga Primary 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 

Tikipunga Primary School is in Tikipunga, Whangārei and provides education for tauira in Years 1 to 6. The school’s vision is ‘Kia taki manawa ai te aronga wawata, te ekenga hoki o pae tawhiti - Respecting aspirations, walking together, achieving our goals’. This vision is underpinned by the values of Ako Runga, Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga and Pono.

Tikipunga Primary School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for tauira are:

• Taumata Tuatahi: Accelerate student achievement
• Taumata Tuarua: Provide conditions that promote high levels of staff morale and low staff turnover
• Taumata Tuatoru: Establish and maintain educationally powerful relationships with whānau.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well outcomes for tauira in literacy are accelerated through targeted actions and strengthening teaching practice.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• raise the achievement and progress of identified tauira in literacy
• respond to the changing needs of tauira in the school community
• empower parents and whānau to actively support their child’s learning.

The school expects to see improvement in literacy achievement data. Tauira will continue to increase their engagement in learning, developing greater resilience and self-efficacy as literacy learners. Teacher confidence in analysing and using achievement data will strengthen. Parents and whānau will become more confident in contributing to their child’s literacy learning, particularly outside of the immediate school context.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to accelerate outcomes for tauira in literacy:

• tauira experience a school learning climate that is consistently positive and culturally responsive
• tauira have a strong sense of belonging and connection to the school community and are secure in their cultural identity
• the wellbeing of tauira is well promoted and responded to, and a culture of care enables them to take risks.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• reviewing and evaluating targeted actions in literacy to raise the achievement of identified tauira
• utilising opportunities from assessment practices in literacy to strengthen teachers’ analysis and use of achievement data, responding to the changing needs of tauira
• continuing to provide professional learning and development opportunities for staff to build collective capacity and ensure equitable and excellent outcomes for all tauira.

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

26 July 2023 

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