Jean Batten School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 33 months of the Education Review Office and Jean Batten 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 

Jean Batten School provides education for Years 1 to 6 ākonga/learners and is located in Mangere East, Auckland.

The current leadership team, consisting of the principal, deputy principal and two assistant principals, formed in 2020 after restructuring.

The school’s motto is ‘Faith in God, Confidence in Oneself’ and its goal is to develop students who are ‘High Fliers’, confident life-long learners navigating their path through a culturally rich world. The school’s values are manaakitanga, faka’apaapa, fa’aloalo, respect and kindness (sign language). These values are underpinned by ‘Te Whare Tapa Wha’ holistic framework and the whakatauki ‘Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua’, the past, present and future are intertwined.

Jean Batten School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• develop assessment capabilities focused on equitable outcomes for all ākonga
• design a responsive localised curriculum that will improve student achievement, hauora and whānau connections
• grow effective teaching and leadership capability and capacity to raise student achievement
• continue to build ‘Te Whāre Tapa Whā’ framework. 

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate learner progress and achievement and effective teaching.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to respond to achievement data and whānau aspirations and to improve students’ engagement and learning in relevant and meaningful contexts.

The school expects to see:

• an improvement in students’ success for excellence and equity
• ākonga-led learning with active ownership and involvement in their learning journey
• consistency of teachers’ assessment practices across the school
• effective and responsive teaching practices meeting equitable outcomes
• increasing engagement with whānau to support students’ learning. 

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to improve the quality of learner progress and achievement and effective teaching:

• ākonga and teachers’ courageous approach to learning including a strong focus on ‘Te Whare Tapa Wha’ framework
• teachers' commitment to professional learning to improve effective teaching practices
• a committed school leadership team
• whānau pride in the school community.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to develop a relevant and meaningful curriculum to actively engage students in their learning
• developing teachers’ effective practices including assessment capability to improve students’ learning.

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