Huntly West School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 8 months of the Education Review Office and Huntly West 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

Huntly West school is located on the west side of Huntly and provides education for students in Years 1 to 8. The school promotes the Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) PRIDE values of participation, respect, initiative, dedication, and excellence.

Huntly West School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• learners at the centre

• barrier free access

• quality teaching and learning

• future of learning and work

• environment and resourcing.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively teaching strategies and practices are improving learner progress and achievement.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• focus on excellent and equitable outcomes for student achievement

• support the strategic priorities of the school.

The school expects to see teaching and learning programmes that are informed by relevant and reliable assessment data to support increased levels of student progress and achievement.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to improve learner progress and achievement:

• PB4L systems and processes are well established throughout the school

• whanaungatanga is a key part of the school community

• internal evaluation is used to inform future direction.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• professional development to support teachers to improve teaching and learning programmes

• teaching strategies and practices to be a focus for internal evaluation.

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

1 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