Riverhills School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

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

Riverhills School is in Pakuranga, Auckland and provides education for students in Years 1 to 6. School leadership is established and experienced. The school is focused on achieving its vision of Care (Manaaki), Inspire (Whakaawe) and Grow (Whakatipu).

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

• Care | Manaaki – to provide a learning environment that puts people and relationships first

• Inspire | Whakaawe – to ensure that all ākonga are excited about their learning and have a broad range of opportunities

• Grow | Whakatipu – to maximise the academic, social and emotional growth of every learner.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well the school conditions facilitate student achievement through developing learner agency across the curriculum for all students.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• continue to raise and accelerate student achievement

• engage and empower students to be active participants in the learning process

• build continuity of formative assessment practices across the school.

The school expects to see:

• students involved in decisions around their learning

• students working collaboratively with peers and teachers to provide effective feedback and feed forward

• classroom programmes consistently supporting and encouraging students to know what they are learning and why

• students able to articulate their achievement, progress, and next steps to enable excellent and equitable outcomes for all learners.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to facilitate the development of learner agency across the curriculum:

• students experience a school learning climate that provides a safe space for them to be supported to take risks in their learning
• professional relationships and effective teaching are focused on the learning and wellbeing of each student
• school leadership collaboratively sustains a culture of relational trust and a focus on continuous improvement to deliver on the school’s strategic priorities.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• developing shared understanding and expectations of learner agency among students, staff and whānau to support active engagement in the learning process

• continuing to provide professional learning opportunities that promote effective implementation of formative assessment practices and strengthen consistency across classroom programmes

• using evaluation, collaborative inquiry and knowledge-building approaches to continue to raise and accelerate student achievement.

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.

Filivaifale Jason Swann
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki

17 February 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

This school has two satellite classes from Sommerville Specialist School.