Waiau Pa School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

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

Waiau Pa School is located in a rural environment in Waiau Pa, near Clark’s Beach. The school provides education for students in Years 1 to 8.

Waiau Pa School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are based around:

• Believe – tamariki who believe they can achieve personal excellence across the curriculum.

• Belong – tamariki who take pride in knowing they belong to their community and the wider world.

• Become – tamariki who become empowered, future-focused learners.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the effectiveness of strategic actions to further improve outcomes for students in writing, with a focus on equitable outcomes for boys. Strengthening evaluation practices and improving rates of student attendance are ongoing priorities for the school.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• the school’s ongoing commitment to achieving equity and excellence for all students.

• the opportunity it provides to further strengthen consistency of teaching practice and build students’ engagement and ownership in their learning journeys.

• the importance of strengthening collective capability in evaluation for continuous improvement.

The school expects to see planned actions implemented to increase attendance, enable improved rates of progress and equitable outcomes for boys in writing.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to further develop evaluation capability for raising student outcomes:

• leadership of learning that is reflective, open to change and focused on continual improvement.

• comprehensive systems and practices that identify and support progress for students with additional needs.

• differentiated learning programmes that are responsive and inclusive to the needs of tamariki.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• implementing targeted actions to improve attendance, increase learner progress and enable equitable outcomes for boys in writing

• further developing learner agency to empower students to strive towards reaching their potential

• strengthening evaluation capability to inform planning and teaching for 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.

Shelley Booysen
Director of Schools

26 October 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