Kerepehi School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report 

Background

This Profile Report was written within 18 months of the Education Review Office and Kerepēhi 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 

Kerepēhi School is located on the Hauraki Plains within the boundaries of Ngāti Hako. It caters for students in Years 1 to 8.

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

• to accelerate the progress of students performing below curriculum expectations

• to give effect to the New Zealand Curriculum through the integrated Kerepēhi School Curriculum

• to use the ‘spiral of inquiry’ to effectively unpack achievement data to support student learning in line with the prescribed achievement challenges of the Hauraki Kāhui Ako.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the extent to which the use of learning progressions and tracking and monitoring impacts on the progress of students who are at risk of underachieving.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• to have more effective use of the learning progressions to assist teachers identify more accurately the specific learning needs of individual students and respond accordingly
• to empower students to use the progressions so that they can take more responsibility for their own learning.

The school expects to see:

• an increase in overall levels of achievement and an increase in the numbers of at-risk students making accelerated progress
• students who are increasingly able to take responsibility for their own learning.

Strengths 

The school can draw from the following strengths to evaluate the impact of the use of the learning progression framework on the progress of students who are at risk of underachieving:

• review of the learning progressions used by the school to ensure they are fit for purpose
• a positive school culture that supports a focus on teaching and learning
• leaders who support effective teacher capacity building and practice.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• embedding the newly designed tracking and monitoring system that uses the learning progressions to track student progress
• ongoing monitoring of student progress and achievement to evaluate the effectiveness the changes in practice in response to the data.

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

29 February 2024 

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