Sunnynook School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 10 months of the Education Review Office and Sunnynook 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

Sunnynook School is located on Auckland’s North Shore and caters for children from Years 1 to 6.

The school’s vision is to equip all learners to be successful and to experience a sense of belonging, and connectiveness with what they learn, how they learn and who they learn with. The school values are Manaakitanga, Kaitiakitanga, and Whanaungatanga together with the capabilities of Self-Management, Collaboration and Thinking.

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

• Whakawhanaungatanga - be a culturally inclusive school community
• Hauora - ensure the wellbeing of all kaiako and ākonga
• Whakaako - provide and support quality, teaching, learning and leadership.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively the development of the school’s localised curriculum responds to learners’ language, culture, and identity and aligns with the dispositions of the graduate profile.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to: 

• make explicit connections between the localised curriculum, graduate profile and learners’ language, culture, and identity
• promote greater opportunities for excellent and equitable outcomes for all learners
• continue to build culturally responsive practice with all staff
• embed best teaching and learning practice.

The school expects to see learners engaging with the localised curriculum and developing the knowledge, skills and values/capabilities needed to successfully progress towards the graduate profile.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its evaluation of how effectively the localised curriculum responds to learners’ language, culture, and identity and aligns with the graduate profile:

• committed school leaders with expertise who effectively develop, promote and enact the school’s vision and values
• the board actively representing and serving the school and education community through its diverse representation including whānau Māori, Pasifika and MELA ethnicities
• teachers who are reflective and effective practitioners whose learning culture is well-established and consistently characterised with respect, inclusion and safety.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to develop the school’s localised curriculum and graduate profile
• teaching will be underpinned by effective practices including assessment for learning.

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

27 July 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