Chaucer School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 24 months of the Education Review Office and Chaucer 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 

Chaucer School is in Blockhouse Bay, Auckland and provides education for students in Years 1 to 6. The school’s vision is ‘Empowering Confident Learners’ and this vision is supported by the four Chaucer Values of Respect, Responsibility, Safety and 100% Effort.

Chaucer School’s strategic goals for improving outcomes for students are:

• Manaakitanga – To foster a culture of respect – Awhi.

• Rangatiratanga – To embed student-led learning - Āhua.

• Whanaungatanga – To create collaborative partnerships that deepen learning – Aroha.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well the school conditions support every student and every staff member to continue to teach and learn, regardless of where they are located.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• embrace the continuous changes that students experience in the real world

• empower students and give them ownership of their learning

• embed student-led learning school-wide

• ensure the natural evolution of the strategic goals, in particular Rangatiratanga.

The school expects to see:

• students demonstrating the skills and attributes that enable them to thrive in and successfully contribute to the real world

• teachers cultivating learning environments that empower students to become active learners who make progress and achieve

• parents and whānau partnering with staff and students to continue to raise outcomes for all learners.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal of every student and every staff member continuing to teach and learn, regardless of where they are located:

• students consistently demonstrate a strong sense of belonging and connection to the school and actively lead diversity initiatives

• school leadership, board, staff and students collaboratively promote and enact the school vision, strategic goals and Chaucer Values

• community partnerships are well established within the Chaucer Family, which includes students, staff, parents and whānau.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• providing ongoing opportunities in real-world contexts for all students to grow and use skills and attributes that enable them to enhance their agency

• continuing to provide staff with relevant professional learning that will support them to embed student-led learning school-wide

• further developing a shared understanding of student-led learning with parents, whānau and the wider community to build on and sustain reciprocal learning partnerships.

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

4 September 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

This school has two satellite classes from Oaklynn Special School.