Arahoe School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within six months of the Education Review Office and Arahoe 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 

Arahoe School is a suburban primary school in New Lynn, West Auckland. It caters for learners in Years 1 to 6. The school’s vision is “to empower ākonga to access their future”. A new principal was appointed in 2023.

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

• We will ensure regular, clear and timely engagement with all members of our community.
• We will teach a curriculum that enables every ākonga/student to be the best they can be.
• We will create a safe and inclusive school culture that celebrates diversity, encourages innovation and enables quality student and teacher learning.
• We will weave Tirititanga / Enacting Te Tiriti in all of the above goals.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively the Arahoe School local curriculum is supporting all learners’ progress and achievement outcomes, especially in writing.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is driven by the school’s commitment to: 

• raising achievement and improving equitable outcomes for all ākonga in literacy through coherent literacy practices
• ensuring learning for all ākonga adds value, is relevant, and is targeted to their strengths and needs.

The school expects to see:

• accelerated progress across all year levels for all ākonga
• teachers gathering and responding to a range of writing achievement information in order to ensure the progress and acceleration of all ākonga
• consistency of teachers’ literacy practices across the school.

Strengths 

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate how effectively the local curriculum is supporting all learners’ progress and achievement outcomes:

• caring, supportive, culturally responsive partnerships that promote a strong sense of belonging and connection for Arahoe learners and their whānau
• collaborative, future focused leadership for learning that is open to change and focused on improvement
• teachers who are committed to professional learning to improve effective teaching practices.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise: 

• implementing and embedding effective teaching practices that increase rates of progress, raise achievement and improve equitable outcomes for all in literacy
• further developing collaborative professional discussions and collective teacher agency
• leadership that continually adapts its implementation and strategy to deliver on the school’s priorities.

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

12 December 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

Arahoe School hosts a satellite unit of Oaklynn School.