Maungawhau School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

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

Maungawhau School is located in Mt Eden, Auckland catering for Year 0 – 6 learners/ākonga. The school’s vision to ‘Shape our Future’, is premised on the school’s core values of caring, working together, keeping on trying and challenging what learners do.

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

• high aspirations for all ākonga wellbeing and progress

• begin the implementation of the refreshed NZ Curriculum underpinned by cultural responsiveness and delivering education that responds to ākonga learning needs.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well the school’s culturally sustaining, localised curriculum develops and embeds the New Zealand Curriculum Refresh, whilst maintaining high levels of achievement, progress and ākonga success. 

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is a localised curriculum that is adaptive and responsive to ākonga needs through:

• programmes that sustain ākonga culture, language, and identity

• high levels of engagement from ākonga and their families, and the wider community

• staff professionalism through engagement in professional learning opportunities ensures teachers and learning assistants look for innovative ways to meet ākonga needs

• milestone evaluations of literacy, numeracy, and mental health strategies

• a collaborative and supportive learning environment that considers wellbeing for all.

The school expects to see:

• ākonga agency and identity evidenced across all learning

• core strategic goals actioned through an internal evaluation process

• development of the New Zealand Curriculum methodology through the Maungawhau localised curriculum and school’s progressions of learning

• continued strong leadership and coaching to build and support teacher capability with a particular focus on building cultural capability to tell the school’s story through a Te Ao Māori lens

• continued engagement with whānau and the wider community focused on supporting ākonga to be successful in who they are.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to embed the New Zealand Curriculum whilst maintaining high levels of progress and achievement for all ākonga:

• ākonga are engaged and articulate learners

• teachers know and care about their ākonga

• leaders share their thinking and guide practice as part of a strongly relational learning environment

• strategic goals of achieving and learning, community engagement and learner agency are key drivers for the school

• parents, whānau, board and community contribute positively to school direction and opportunities provided for ākonga.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• evaluating the impact of maths and literacy changes and how those curriculum changes support learning progress

• establishing the school’s story through a te ao Māori focus – supporting ākonga, staff and families to understand the school’s history.

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

1 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