Hay Park School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 6 months of the Education Review Office and Hay Park 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 

Hay Park School caters for Years 0-6 ākonga and is located in Mt Roskill, Auckland. The school’s vision is to develop positive learners who believe in their potential, achieve their dreams and succeed through life, through values of respect, resilience and responsibility. In partnership with their community, they prepare ākonga to be successful learners who have the ability to take action to shape their future.

Hay Park School’s strategic priorities for learners to reach their potential are:

• creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all ākonga and their whānau
• building powerful reciprocal partnerships
• continuing to raise expectations for learner progress and achievement
• strengthening capability to support children's learning through their strong sense of belonging and identity.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the impact of the school’s deliberate and explicit focus on providing excellent and equitable learner outcomes.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• literacy and maths programmes are reviewed, implemented, and innovated to ensure needs are met
• wellbeing sits firmly at the centre of learning, and in particular staff knowing children’s identity, culture, and language, and what tamariki bring as prior knowledge to their learning
• that informed leadership supports innovation
• to continue to strengthen and embed partnerships that impact positively on ākonga outcomes.

The school expects to see:

• schoolwide learner engagement fully reflects the school values
• equitable access for ākonga to digital devices, to support accelerated learner outcomes
• consistent teacher practices that are personalised for ākonga to focus on equitable and excellent learner outcomes
• leadership distributed to guide and support the highest quality teaching practices
• whānau engagement that enables aspirations to be realised through the local curriculum.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its goal to evaluate the impact of the school’s focus on providing excellent and equitable learner outcomes:

• ākonga strong in their personal and cultural identity
• tuakana-teina relationships are visible across the school
• all staff are valued for what they bring to the school
• leadership focused on reflection for action, ensuring what is good for tamariki happens
• having heart is reflected in the people: teaching, learning and community.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• developing an evaluation plan to examine impactful positive relationships; the how, the why and what that means for ākonga
• reviewing what the school does currently to build, embed and sustain reciprocal relationships
• aligning the evaluation to the school’s strategic planning.

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

13 November 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