Red Beach School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report 

Background

This Profile Report was written within 6 months of the Education Review Office and Red Beach 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 

Red Beach School, on Auckland’s Hibiscus Coast, caters for children in Years 1 to 6. Motuora unit provides specialist programmes for students with high additional learning needs. 

The school’s vision is 'Ko te kura Onewhero he kokōna he whakamana i nga akonga kua pākari ki te poipoi i te hua-roa. Red Beach School is a community empowering lifelong learners to achieve and make a difference’.

Red Beach Schools strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• participate - Whai Wahi. For learners to be striving to be resilient, self-regulating lifelong learners, who are actively involved and contribute positively to their community and environment
• collaborate - Mahi Tahi. For learners to be striving to be effective communicators who relate well to others, and are connected to their world
• celebrate - Whakanui. For learners to be celebrating who they are, their learning, their community, and their world.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well the school curriculum supports students to have greater agency and ownership over their own learning.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• embracing new curriculum changes that will continue to empower students to lead their own learning
• reviewing the curriculum will ensure that students are enabled to be at the centre of their learning.

The school expects to see:

• students demonstrating the skills and attributes that enable them to make decisions about their learning
• classroom environments where teachers are empowering students to make decisions about their learning
• parents and whānau partnering with staff and students to embrace student agency.

Strengths 

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to develop a curriculum where the students have greater agency and ownership over their own learning:

• collaborative, strategic leadership that is highly focused on continuous improvement
• a school culture that embraces the school vision and student empowerment
• high levels of professional capabilities and collective capacity.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise: 

• professional development that supports teachers to design and deliver student led learning opportunities
• ongoing review that ensures that students continue to be at the centre of their learning 
• further developing a shared understanding of student-led learning with parents, whānau and the wider community.

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

7 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

An RTLB Cluster serving 34 schools is based at Red Beach School.