Bayfield School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

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

Bayfield School is located in Herne Bay, Auckland and caters for learners in Years 1 to 6. The key values of respect / whakarangatira, responsibility / heipapa, excellence / huhuatanga and valuing diversity / kanorau underpin the school’s culture and philosophy.

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

• Courageous Learners- We will build resilient and tenacious risk-takers so that they are prepared for tomorrow.
• Curious and Creative Learners- Through a rich, broad curriculum, we will develop creative learners so that they are confident, independent and visionary.
• Collaborative Learners-Through understanding camaraderie, communication, accountability and being open to learning, we will create learners who can confidently collaborate with others for success.
• Connected learners- Through an increased sense of identity, heritage, working with others, we will support learners to make connections with their learning, peers and others in our global community.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively it is implementing culturally responsive practices.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to ensure:

• every learner is confident in their identity, socially and emotionally competent and a successful life-long learner.
• progress and achievement outcomes are consistently equitable and excellent for all learners.

The school expects to see:

• a positive and culturally responsive school learning climate which promotes learner engagement.
• teaching practice which is consistently inclusive and adaptive and caters well for all learners.
• teachers and learners use feedback in a culturally responsive way.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate how effectively it is implementing culturally responsive practices:

• an experienced, collaborative leadership team with a focus on continuous improvement and strong evaluative capacity.
• the school has collective capacity to use evaluation and inquiry to build knowledge for improvement and innovation
• teachers collaboratively plan and implement the localised curriculum
• collaborative professional development continuously enhances teacher capability.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• embedding effective teacher feedback practice.
• developing student agency through a peer feedback cycle.

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

25 October 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