Coatesville School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 9 months of the Education Review Office and Coatesville 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 

Coatesville School on Auckland’s North Shore caters for children in Years 1 to 6. The school’s mission is for everyone at Coatesville School to ‘Aim, Strive, Achieve.’ Key to achieving this for all children are the values of respect, responsibility, and reflection. The vision aims to nurture children to be successful, well-rounded learners who are confident, passionate, creative and self-directed. 

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

• student learning: enhance effective teaching & learning using specific learning programmes to support learning outcomes for all students
• student engagement: enhance effective teaching & learning by gaining a deeper understanding of the needs of individual learners - their strengths, their interests, their culture and their competencies - to support learning outcomes for all students
• student and staff wellbeing: strengthen understanding and support for individual wellbeing of students and staff to support learning outcomes for all students
• school partnership: strengthen relationships, a sense of ‘family’ connection and a sense of belonging for all school stakeholders.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how to effectively enhance reading and writing through the implementation of a literacy learning programme helping to create equitable outcomes for all students.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• focus on empowering student learning
• create a greater understanding and implementation of highly effective literacy strategies
• focus on accelerating literacy achievement across the school.

The school expects to see students who are:

• passionate and excited about learning and motivated to make progress
• self-directed and take an active role in their learning
• confidently working towards fulfilling the learning expectations set for them and achieving success.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to effectively enhance reading and writing through the implementation of a literacy learning programme helping to create equitable outcomes for all students.

• staff who are passionate about literacy teaching and readily bring their knowledge to programmes
• students who have a wealth of experience and knowledge to support literacy learning
• parents/caregivers who are supportive of their children’s literacy learning and the school
• board of trustees who are proactive in supporting learning programmes with resourcing, staffing, professional learning, and development.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• a review of literacy programme planning by team members including formal feedback from staff
• implementing literacy learning progressions by using up to date curriculum guidance to ensure clarity, cohesion and agreement
• assessment and reporting by focusing on the consistency of procedures designed to generate effective progress information for all learners.

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 August 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