Maraetai Beach School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within six months of the Education Review Office and Maraetai Beach 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 

Maraetai Beach School is in East Auckland, situated on the headland above Te Pene Point on the Pohutukawa Coast. The school provides education for ākonga in Years 1 to 8. The school’s vision, Our Way – People, Potential, Planet, sets the strategic direction for the school. This vision is underpinned by the four values of Tō Tātou Ara - Manawaroa (Resilience), Whakaute (Respect), Rawe (Excellence) and Ngākau Tapatahi (Integrity).

Maraetai Beach School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for ākonga are:

• PEOPLE: Strengthen student and teacher agency

• POTENTIAL: Deliver a responsive local curriculum

• PLANET: Promote a commitment to sustainable practices.

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

ERO and the school are working to evaluate how well the school’s challenging and responsive localised curriculum enables consistently equitable and excellent outcomes for all ākonga through the implementation of Te Mātaiaho | The refreshed New Zealand Curriculum.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• support all ākonga to excel and experience success in their learning

• ensure learner progress and achievement are responded to and celebrated for every ākonga

• enable all ākonga and the school community to see themselves through an inclusive and localised curriculum.

The school expects to see:

• a challenging and inclusive localised curriculum that enables all ākonga to progress and achieve success through responding to their identities and aspirations and those of the school community

• kaiako teaching consistently through the Common Practice Model, which outlines the delivery of learning in Te Mātaiaho

• ākonga confidently demonstrating agency in their learning to achieve equity and excellence through embedding the Maraetai Beach Learner Capabilities.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal of enabling consistently equitable and excellent outcomes for all ākonga:

• ākonga experience a school learning climate that is consistently positive and culturally responsive, promoting their engagement through respectful relationships

• learner progress and achievement outcomes are equitable and excellent for all ākonga and are supported through teaching that is relevant, challenging and meaningful

• the school has sustainable, high levels of professional capability and collective capacity to continually improve and innovate

• the board effectively scrutinises its own and the school’s performance in achieving equity and excellence to inform planning and resourcing for ongoing and sustained improvement

• rich and extensive community consultation informs the school’s strategic direction, capturing the views and aspirations of ākonga, school staff, parents and whānau.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• designing and delivering literacy, communication and mathematics programmes that reflect the vision and values of a challenging and inclusive localised curriculum where every ākonga can see themselves

• utilising teaching and learning practices that strengthen the literacy, communication and mathematics learning areas to enable all ākonga to excel and experience success in their learning

• continuing to embed the Maraetai Beach School Learner Capabilities so that all ākonga have agency in their 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

9 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