Review 18 June 2025
LatestSchool Report
Tēnā koutou e mau manawa rahi ki te kaupapa e aro ake nei, ko te tamaiti te pūtake o te kaupapa. Mā wai rā e kawe, mā tātau katoa.
We acknowledge the collective effort, responsibility and commitment by all to ensure that the child remains at the heart of the matter.
About the School
Favona School provides education for students in Years 1 to 6. The roll is approximately 298. The largest group of students are of Pacific heritage and make up 82 percent of the roll. The school supports four language enrichment units in Māori, Niuean, Samoan and Tongan; each unit integrates cultural ways of learning and celebrates students’ respective languages and identities. The school’s vision encourages staff and students to weave together learning for the future.
Part A: Parent Summary
How well placed is the school to promote educational success and wellbeing?
| How well are learners succeeding? | Success and progress for all learners is increasing. |
| What is the quality of teaching and learning? | The school is improving teaching and learning. |
| How well does the school curriculum respond to all learners needs? | Learners have sufficient opportunities to learn across the breadth and depth of the curriculum. There is a variable focus on supporting learners to gain skills in literacy and mathematics. Learners with complex needs are well supported to achieve their education goals. |
| How well does school planning and conditions support ongoing improvement? | The school is establishing planning and conditions that support improvements in the quality of education for learners. |
| How well does the school include all learners and promote their engagement and wellbeing? | The school successfully promotes learners’ engagement, wellbeing and inclusion. |
| How well does the school partner with parents, whānau and its community for the benefit of learners? | The school is improving its reporting to parents / whānau about their child’s learning, achievement and progress. The school is improving its collection and use of information gathered through community consultation to inform strategic planning and curriculum decisions. |
| Student Health and Safety | The school board is taking reasonable steps to ensure student health and safety. |
Achievement in Years 0 to 8
This table outlines how well students across the school meet or exceed the expected curriculum level.
Foundation Skills | |
| Reading | A large majority of learners meet or exceed the expected curriculum level. Results are becoming more equitable for all groups of learners. |
| Writing | A large majority of learners meet or exceed the expected curriculum level. Results are equitable for all groups of learners. |
| Mathematics | A large majority of learners meet or exceed the expected curriculum level. Results are equitable for all groups of learners. |
Attendance
The school is behind the target of 80% regular attendance.
The school has a suitable plan in place to improve attendance.
Regular attendance is improving towards or beyond the target.
Chronic absence is reducing over time.
Assessment
The school is improving its approach and the reliability of its practices to accurately find out about achievement against the curriculum.
Teachers are developing their use of assessment information to adjust teaching practices to ensure ongoing improvement in teaching and student progress.
Progress
The school is developing good quality planning to increase the rate of progress for all groups of students.
The school has to some extent improved achievement and progress for those learners most at risk of not achieving since the previous review.
The school has to some extent extended achievement and progress for learners working at or above curriculum levels since the previous review.
The school is making progress towards meeting Government reading, writing and mathematics targets and/or pānui, tuhituhi and pāngarau targets for 2030 and agrees this will need to be a key strategic priority.
An explanation of the terms used in the Parent Summary can be found here: Reporting | Education Review Office
Part B: Findings for the school
This section of the report provides more detail for the school to include in strategic and annual planning for ongoing improvement across the school.
Areas of Strength
Students have a strong sense of wellbeing and belonging to school that strengthens their engagement in learning.
Leaders and the board implement meaningful strategic planning that clearly focuses on key areas of improvement, sustainability and what is best for each child.
Language enrichment classes provide strong culturally responsive learning environments for students and their families; these environments increase engagement for students and positive participation for parents.
Leaders and teachers establish high levels of relational trust with students and their families that supports students to take risks in their learning.
Leaders and staff are taking steps to integrate the new structured literacy and mathematics curriculum expectations schoolwide and to meet the Government’s 2026 requirements for assessment and reporting.
Well-considered staff professional development is targeted, planned and purposefully implemented for ongoing improvement of teaching and learning.
Key priorities and actions for improvement
The agreed next steps for the school are to:
- monitor and review initiatives to improve regular attendance for all students
- strengthen assessment practices, processes and teachers’ use of student progress and achievement information to support schoolwide consistency
- maintain high quality teaching and learning practices schoolwide to further improve and sustain progress and achievement of learners in reading, writing and mathematics.
The agreed actions for the next improvement cycle and timeframes are as follows.
Within six months:
- embed the action plan that has been developed to support the implementation of the new teaching, learning and assessment expectations for literacy and mathematics
Every six months:
- review the outcomes of attendance initiatives to inform ongoing planning and actions
- provide ongoing staff professional learning to strengthen schoolwide teaching, learning and assessment practices
- support teachers to systematically and collaboratively gather, analyse and use student progress and achievement information to embed high quality teaching practices that align with the new curriculum expectations
Annually:
- evaluate and report to the board on the effectiveness of attendance strategies to increase regular attendance
- review the consistency of schoolwide teaching, learning and assessment practices, including the impact on student progress and achievement, and use this to inform next steps
- review the alignment of literacy and mathematics teaching and learning with the new curriculum expectations.
Actions taken against these next steps are expected to result in:
- improved regular student attendance
- increased student progress and achievement in reading, writing and mathematics
- consistent high-quality teaching, learning and assessment practices embedded schoolwide.
Part C: Regulatory and Legislative Requirements
Board Assurance with Regulatory and Legislative Requirements
All schools are required to promote student health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements.
During this review the Board has attested to some regulatory and legislative requirements in the following areas:
Board Administration
Yes
Curriculum
Yes
Management of Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Personnel Management
Yes
ERO’s role will be to support the school in its evaluation for improvement cycle to improve outcomes for all learners. The next public report on ERO’s website will be a School Report and is due within three years.
Me mahi tahi tonu tātau, kia whai oranga a tātau tamariki
Let’s continue to work together for the greater good of all children
Sharon Kelly
Director of Schools (Acting)
18 June 2025
Education Counts
This website provides further information about the school’s student population, student engagement and student achievement. educationcounts.govt.nz/home