Bucklands Beach Primary School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report 

Background

This Profile Report was written within 8 months of the Education Review Office and Bucklands Beach 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

Located in East Auckland, Bucklands Beach Primary is a culturally diverse school catering for students in Years 1 to 6. The school’s peninsula location and local environment is reflected in the local curriculum including the school ethos of caring for the environment.

Bucklands Beach Primary School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• meeting the needs of diverse learners
• fostering positive hauora
• providing rich multicultural experiences reflecting diverse learners, prioritising Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well the school provide a range of learning opportunities to promote equitable and excellent outcomes to meet the needs of diverse learners.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is the school want to:

• continue to provide innovative and effective strategies to meet the needs of all learners
• deliver the best learning opportunities that reflects the increasing diversity of the school community.

The school expects to see:

• consistency of engaging teaching practices specific to diverse learners
• teachers implementing best practice and deliberate acts of teaching across the curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners
• learners being well supported to be able to discuss and talk about their learning and progress.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to provide a range of learning opportunities to meet the needs of diverse learners:

• leaders and teachers are innovative and use research to build professional knowledge
• leaders and teachers embrace new learning and implement successful approaches from professional learning
• effective assessment systems and analysis are used to identify, monitor and report the progress and achievement of all learners
• the school engages with the local community, environment and experts to enhance learning opportunities.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise continuing to:

• provide relevant professional learning opportunities to build leaders’ and teachers’ capability to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse community
• build effective learning partnerships with all parents and provide opportunities for parents to engage in the local curriculum and further support their child’s acquisition of the English language.

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

8 May 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