Mellons Bay School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 11 months of the Education Review Office and Mellons Bay 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

Mellons Bay School is a contributing school overlooking Mellons Bay Beach in Howick, Auckland. The school caters for students in years 1 to 6. The school’s vision is learning to navigate our changing world.

Mellons Bay School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• to care, connect and communicate with each other, the community, the environment, and our world

• to be confident learners who take risks, are responsible, resilient, and strive for personal best

• to think and learn creatively with curiosity and innovation.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively the Mellons Bay learner profile enhances equitable and excellent outcomes for all children.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• to ensure all children learn to navigate our changing world, progress, achieve, and experience success

• to further develop agentic learners who are confident in their own strengths, needs and interests

• to empower children to take ownership and action as they navigate their learning.

The school expects to see:

• children having multiple opportunities to build on their strengths, needs and interests and experience success as they navigate our local curriculum through the learner profile

• strong parent and community partnerships that enhance all children's opportunities to learn.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its goal to ensure the Mellon’s Bay learner profile enhances excellent and equitable outcomes for all children:

• effective leadership that focuses on excellence and equity and ongoing commitment to achieve the school’s strategic direction

• caring and approachable leaders, teachers and staff who demonstrate a commitment to knowing the whole child

• leaders, teachers, staff and the community have high expectations for all learners and a strong focus on wellbeing and inclusion

• the school consults and responds to whānau and community feedback.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to build partnerships with parents and the community to enhance learning opportunities

• place a cultural lens over the learner profile to consider all children’s language, culture and identity

• provide relevant curriculum professional learning and development, so that teachers guide children to navigate and apply the learner profile.

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 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