Kaimai School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

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

Kaimai School is an established rural country school catering for students in Years 1 to 8. The school is located approximately 20 kilometers from central Tauranga. An acting principal has been appointed for Term 2 2022.

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

• for teachers to empower students to become self-regulating active learners
• following the progressions in literacy and mathematics, students can identify their own goals and achieve these.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate:

• the impact of assessment for learning and high expectations for teaching on learner outcomes.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:  

• to strengthen teaching practice that is consistent and evident across the school, through sharing and using best practices and creating and upholding shared beliefs.

The school expects to see:

• learners’ potential identified, progress and achievement closely monitored and responded to through multiple, equitable opportunities to improve academically
• teachers leading highly effective learning, catering for different ways of learnings.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to strengthen the impact on student outcomes of assessment for learning and high expectations for teaching:

• clearly aligned professional learning development
• specific and detailed professional growth cycles that support teachers’ knowledge and development
• information gathering and analysis to track learners’ progress and achievement.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• using student achievement information collected through a range of assessments, and observations of teaching as part of the growth cycle, staff and the SLT will be able to identify what is going well and why for learners
• establishing honest and collaborative, annual internal evaluation to clearly identify areas that are going well and those for 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.

Phil Cowie
Acting Director Review and Improvement Services (Central)
Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui

26 July 2022 

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