Kingsford School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 30 months of the Education Review Office and Kingsford 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 

Kingsford School is in Māngere East and serves young people in Years 0 to 6. A new principal started in Term 3 2022 and is working with the school board to establish community focused strategic priorities.

Ko Te Pane o Mataoho te maunga

Ko Ōruarangi me te Puhinui ngā awa

Ko Manukanuka o Hoturoa te moana

Ko Taramainuku me Kaiwhare ngā kaitiaki

Ko Tainui te waka

Ko Kingsford te kura.

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

• Culture
• Learning
• Partnerships.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the extent to which a sense of belonging, connection and confidence is experienced to improve valued outcomes for young people.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• ensure young people experience a sense of belonging, connection and confidence at school to support improved outcomes
• deliberately align school practices with feedback from whānau and their aspirations for tamariki
• further increase the capability and capacity of staff to ensure culturally responsive practices are understood and applied school wide.

The school expects to see young people:

• consistently demonstrating a strong sense of belonging and connection to the school
• consistently experiencing a learning environment where their language, culture and identity inform a localised and responsive curriculum
• demonstrating agency in their learning and contributing to the continuous improvement of the school
• acknowledged and celebrated in recognition of their learning, progress and achievement
• supported by their whānau in successful learning partnerships.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support their goal to evaluate young people’s sense of belonging, connection and confidence at Kingsford School:

• a school wide commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
• student voice and working in partnership with whānau are valued by school leaders and the board
• school leaders are working collaboratively to build and maintain relationships with whānau and tangata whenua.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing professional learning for staff related to this kaupapa
• ensuring there is a shared understanding of key concepts related to this evaluation
• collecting student, whānau and staff voice and experience to inform this evaluation.

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

18 May 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