Waikowhai Intermediate

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 9 months of the Education Review Office and Waikōwhai Intermediate 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 

Waikōwhai Intermediate is a co-educational Years 7 and 8 school that serves Mount Roskill and students from a wider geographical area. The Wai-Way is the school values in action.

Waikōwhai Intermediate’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• To have Learning Maps drive pedagogy and our evolving local curriculum, so that our learners have agency over their learning and have the character, skills and understanding for the world they will enter.
• Ensure Waikōwhai Intermediate is a great place to learn by working together, so that our students have the best chance to reach their potential.
• Secure the best for our students by working alongside our community, so that everyone can make the most of the people, places and tools that are available.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the values based graduate profile, focused on improving student outcomes and achievement.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• Waikōwhai Intermediate values were formed after consultation with all stake holders and these need to be visible and realised
• learners thrive in a value led teaching and learning environment focused on equity and excellence
• learners thrive through a personalised, challenging and responsive curriculum supported by purposeful action planning and evaluation
• to be effective lifelong learners, students need to demonstrate agency and self-efficacy in their learning.

The school expects to see:

• learners experience success and wellbeing through personalised and responsive teaching and learning
• learners show improved self-efficacy as they use the Wai-Profile to take more ownership of their learning
• equity and excellence for all learners through collaborative practices with learners, whānau and the community.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to implement the Wai-Profile to improve student outcomes and achievement:

• teachers consistently use effective teaching strategies and practices in adaptive ways to promote equitable and excellent learner outcomes
• foundation learning areas of the curriculum including oral language, literacy, mathematics and science are being strengthened to help ensure all learners can access the broader curriculum
• students benefit from an inclusive environment where learners with diverse and high needs are very well supported
• interpersonal relationships support learners’ language, culture and identity focused on enhanced outcomes.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to implement and evaluate the impact of the Wai-Profile on learner agency and self-efficacy
• strengthening students’ ability to set personalised goals and monitor their learning progress.

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

16 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

This school has a Central Auckland Specialist School satellite class on site.