Kaipara Flats School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 13 months of the Education Review Office and Kaipara Flats 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 

Kaipara Flats School is a rural school in Kaipara Flats, Warkworth. The school provides education for students in Years 1 to 6. The school’s vision is ‘Succeeding Together - Te angitu tahi’. A new principal was appointed in 2018.

Kaipara Flats School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• Growing our learners to be the best they can be
• Growing the way we learn today, empowering and inspiring us for the future
• Growing our wellbeing so that all learners can thrive and succeed
• Growing our connections with our community.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well implementation of the local curriculum is achieving equitable outcomes for all learners.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to create a resilient local curriculum which is focused on growing and celebrating the strengths of learners using a research-informed approach based on developing learner dispositions.

The school expects to see:

• confident and capable learners who can choose, design, pursue, troubleshoot and evaluate learning for themselves
• teachers consistently using effective teaching strategies and practices in adaptive ways to promote excellent and equitable outcomes for all learners.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate how well implementation of the local curriculum is achieving equitable outcomes for all learners:

• leadership effectively prioritises and plans for school improvement and for equitable and excellent outcomes for learners
• a collaborative professional learning culture focused on supporting learners to make choices and decisions about their own learning
• learners who are increasingly engaged, curious and collaborative.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to support reflective, flexible teaching and learning through targeted professional development
• strengthening learning centred relationships with whānau and families to grow a deeper understanding of learning dispositions
• collecting student voice and experiences to inform curriculum design.

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

24 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