Pukeoware School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within eight months of the Education Review Office and Pukeoware 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 

Pukeoware School is located in a rural environment near Waiuku, providing education for students in Years 1 to 8.

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

• prioritising academic acheivement and wellbeing for all students

• strengthening cultural understanding and practice consistent with Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively targeted actions improve outcomes for all students in literacy, with a particular focus on raising achievement for boys. Strengthening collective knowledge and capability in evaluation is an ongoing priority for the school.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• the school’s commitment to improving equitable outcomes in literacy for all students

• the focus on raising achievement in boys’ reading and writing, as identified through analysis of data

• the importance of strengthening internal evaluation practices and capability for continuous improvement.

The school expects to see increasingly equitable outcomes for learners in literacy.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to raise student achievement and improve equitable outcomes:

• leadership and experienced teachers that collaboratively support continuous improvement

• comprehensive systems in place to track and monitor student achievement over time

• strong relationships with families and the local community that support positive partnerships for learning.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to implement effective strategies to improve outcomes for all students in literacy, and increase boys’ engagement and achievement

• strengthening collective capability in evaluation to enable sustainability of practice to further inform continuous improvement.

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.

Phil Cowie
Director Review and Improvement Services (Central)
Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui

27 March 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