Riverhead School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 12 months of the Education Review Office and Riverhead 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 

Riverhead School is in Riverhead, Auckland and caters for Year 1 to Year 8 students. The vision for the school is underpinned by the creation of innovative learning environments where teaching, learning and leading is collaborative and learner agency is a priority.

Riverhead School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• empower learners to be critical and creative thinkers who have the power to act and discover their potential
• support teacher efficacy to embed collaborative pedagogies throughout the school
• authentically collaborate with the community to cultivate a successful inclusive learning environment
• continue to embrace a school culture that is reflective, and a fun, fair, safe place to be and learn.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well the school’s innovative and collaborative culture promote efficacy, agency, and resilience to achieve equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• further build shared staff expectations for the implementation of innovative and collaborative practices that impact positively and drive student progress and lift achievement
• determine the extent that the school’s innovative and collaborative practices are culturally responsive
• determine what the critical influences are that support students to become resilient, agentic and confident learners.

The school expects to see as the result of the evaluation:

• the school driving progress and lifting achievement for all learners
• learners highly engaged in authentic, real-life experiences
• learners being able to demonstrate that they are critical, creative, agentic and resilient
• learners being engaged and actively involved in their own learning
• authentic community partnerships are being further strengthened.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its evaluation:

• committed school leaders with high levels of expertise in leading learning
• teachers who are highly reflective, passionate, and effective practitioners
• highly reflective inquiry practices that inform the school’s strategic direction, curriculum design and implementation
• a highly supportive teaching and learning environment where innovation and creativity are prioritised.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• which elements of the school’s culture promotes success
• continuing to undertake in-depth data analysis of priority and targeted learners to determine next steps

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

15 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